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Arup, the global design and engineering firm for the built environment, and Jay Paul Company, an award-winning real estate firm based in San Francisco, announce that 181 Fremont (the third tallest structure in San Francisco) has achieved a REDi™ Gold Rating, which will make it the most resilient tall building on the West Coast of the U.S. when completed.
Design: Foster + Partners, architects. A 35-storey mixed-use tower in the heart of Vancouver. The building includes the first residential development to be completed by this architecture studio in North America
Design: Edge Design, architects. A high-rise, 46 storey luxurious tower building. The building canopy is designed as a metaphor for crashing waves on the beach, reflecting the rhythm of the Gulf and emphasises the height of the tower.
Design: Vincent Callebaut Architectures: Cities use 75% of the worldwide consumption of energy and emit 80% of global CO2. The contemporary urban model is ultra-energy consuming and relies on exporting pollution and waste.
Architect: Aedas. Shenzhen Luohu Friendship Trading Centre is a redevelopment of a current department store to be renewed into a new skyscraper with a 7-storey retail podium at the heart of Luohu in China.
Design: Mercurio Design Lab, Architects. The architects state, “marketing of the building…suggested that its characteristic form had been inspired by the Calla lily, a tropical flower native to southern Africa, the shape actually owed more to the female human form ─ think Matisse’s ‘Blue Nude’.”
Design: HOK, Architects. Previously unseen images of London’s new £800+m resi-skyscraper, built by China, the tallest resi-tower in Western Europe, a 235m (771ft) high, 67-storey building.
Design: A-Simple. In Buggy Sky Station group of architects conceptualized an idea to bring village to the city and make them coexist in harmony. The skyscraper offers a unique symbiosis of the city and countryside experience with a minimal impact on the surroundings.
eVolo Magazine is pleased to invite architects, students, engineers, designers, and artists from around the globe to take part in the 2017 Skyscraper Competition.
MahaNakhon – a visionary new 77-storey high-rise complex located on a 3.6 acre site in the heart of Bangkok’s Central Business District with a direct link to the Chongnonsi BTS Skytrain station between Silom and Sathorn Roads.
Design: Bill Pedersen – Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF) architects. 90-story, 1,296-ft-tall office tower now 15 floors above street level. The 2.6-m-sqft tower is be the second-tallest office building in New York, taller than the Empire State Building and home to the highest outdoor observation deck in the city.
Design: PLP Architecture. Construction of The Pinnacle replacement may be delayed following the referendum result. The office tower includes a restaurant and bar occupying the upper levels plus a free public viewing gallery.
One57 (nicknamed “The Billionaire Building“) is a 75-story skyscraper by Atelier Christian de Portzamparc. One of the penthouses is the first to surpass $100 million, the most expensive apartment ever sold in NYC.
Design: Zaha Hadid Architects. 7 residential towers, 12 semi-detached villas and integrated landscaping with recreation facilities. The towers’ petal-shaped layouts taper inwards near the ground to optimize public space.