Get the biggest stories sent straight to your inbox Sign up for regular updates and breaking news from WalesOnline Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy notice Invalid Email

There are so many projects going on in Cardiff at the moment it is sometimes hard to keep up!

As Cardiff will be promoted as a business and investment location to the world at the MIPIM 2015 event in the South France this week we have broken down the developments to help you get up to speed with the rapidly changing face of the capital of Wales.

Cardiff came top of a study by website MoneySuperMarket as the best city for quality of life last year. The capital also topped a poll of best UK to live in, with 92% saying they liked living in the city.

And the growth and optimism for the future of the city shows no signs of abating:

Cardiff is the UK's fastest growing city , with experts predicting a 42% growth rate over the next 20 years

40% of the labour pool qualified to degree level or higher

£11bn Super-Connected Cities scheme will roll out free, high-speed wi-fi across Cardiff

Direct real estate investment rose by 97% to £0.7 billion in 2014, with a record year also predicted for 2015

Hover over the map below to see where the big transformations in the city are taking place:

Central Square

The development of one million sq ft of new office, residential and leisure space around Cardiff Central Railway Station in the centre of Cardiff, is already under way.

BBC Wales has chosen the site as the preferred location for a new 150,000 sq ft new headquarters, with working progressing on the first office scheme - the 135,000 sq ft No 1 Central Square building.

The building, which will be completed later this year, has already secured its first tenant in law firm Blake Morgan. Central Square is being spearheaded by Cardiff-based property development firm Rightacre.

A new £11m integrated transport hub to replace Cardiff’s existing bus station should start next year after the city council confirmed it had recommended a location close to the capital’s main train station.

If you have a head for heights take a look at Cardiff from the top of a crane in the Capital Square development:

Video Loading Video Unavailable Click to play Tap to play The video will start in 8 Cancel Play now

Cardiff Central Train Station

Subject to backing from the Department for Transport, Cardiff Central Railway Station could see a significant increase in the size of the concourse and, potentially, more than 340,000 sq ft of new office and retail space built within its enlarged footprint and on land on its south side. The existing art deco designed facade will be maintained.

Like landmark projects at other UK stations such as St Pancras and King’s Cross in London and Birmingham New Street, it will be far more than just a place to access train services, also being a vibrant business, retail and leisure destination in its own right.

poll loading Are you excited by the development of Cardiff? 0+ VOTES SO FAR Yes, it is the capital and it needs the investment No, there still needs to be more investment in the capital city No, Cardiff gets too much money, what about other Welsh cities

Capital Quarter

Capital Quarter, on the site of the former Tyndall Street industrial estate, was launched by JR Smart in 2007.

Its first buildings No1 and No2 Driscoll Buildings, are now fully let to Brookfield Infrastructure and Equiniti.

Following completion last year of the 80,000 sq ft No 1 Capital Quarter office development, work is progressing on the 85,000 sq ft No 2 Capital Quarter office scheme.

JR Smart has also recently unveiled plans for a 23 storey apartment complex.

The changing cityscape of Cardiff:

Callaghan Square

At the heart of the Central Cardiff Enterprise Zone, Callaghan Square has planning permission for an additional 750,000 sq ft of Grade A office space.

Existing occupiers include Eversheds, ING, AIB, Centrica and Deloitte.

The Welsh Government has yet to confirm when it will start work on a first phase 90,000 sq ft office scheme on land it acquired from MEPC on the southside of Callaghan Square.

Dumballs Road

A new urban neighbourhood located between the city centre and Cardiff Bay. The scheme will deliver a mixed use community with around 2,600 residential units and is the new location for Cardiff & the Vale College.

Average weekly living costs £359 £486

Cardiff residents were found to have the lowest average living costs at £359 a week, compared with £486 typically in London, which had the highest living costs.

Grangetown

The plans are to transform the old depot, at the junction of Clare Road and Pendyris Street, to provide dance studios, an art gallery, cafes, bars and a restaurant – as well as 29 work units, 15 business development units and office, studio, meeting and conference facilities.

Cardiff University's innovation campus at Maindy Park

The university's £300m innovation campus will create a world-first social science research park called Spark, an innovation centre to help start-up firms, a translational research facility that would assist in turning academic research into applications in the real world, and a research institute for compound semiconductor technology.

Porth Teigr

A 33 acre brownfield mixed use development in the heart of Cardiff Bay delivered by Igloo.

It is now home to the BBC’s drama village, The Doctor Who Experience visitor attraction and the Glow Works creative industries centre.

Additional development will deliver a mixed use sustainable neighbourhood, incorporating up to 1,000 new homes with creative, commercial, residential and leisure uses also on the site.

International Sports Village (ISV)

An 88 acre brownfield Bay front development, by Greenbank Partnership Ltd adjacent to Cardiff International Pool, and the Cardiff White Water Rafting Centre.

An Olympic standard, twin pad ice arena for 3,000 spectators will be completed early 2016.

Cardiff Waterside

An established office location within Cardiff Bay already home to HBOS, Arup, Welsh Government and Regus.

Three sites remain with permission for 500,000 sq ft of grade A office space at the development owned by Aviva.