Shanghai Tower Development
The countdown is on, with only about 90 days left until the April 2015 opening of the 632-meter tall Shanghai Tower, China’s tallest building and the world’s second- tallest building.
Skyscraper building designs
Skyscraper buildings designs and architects
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Structural Marvels of the World: Major Buildings
It is in human nature to feel awed and inspired from things that have a superlative quality – the most beautiful, the tallest, the smallest or the most ancient of all.
50 Bridge Street Tower, Sydney
AMP Capital has named 3XN as the architect for the 49-story, 102,000SM (~1.1M SF) 50 Bridge Street tower and master plan for the Quay Quarter Sydney (QQS) precinct. 3XN was selected via a multi-stage international competition.
McKinley West Residences Manila
Megaworld, the leading residential condominium and office developer-landlord in the Philippines, has announced that it is to develop McKinley West – an ultra-high-end township
8 Spruce Street in New York City, Rippling Building
Developed by Forest City Ratner Companies (FCRC), New York by Gehry at 8 Spruce Street is the first residential tower designed in New York City by world-renowned architect Frank Gehry
Revolution Tower, Tunisia: World Social Center
Design: Philippe Barriere Collective (PB+Co). The project includes the redesign of the Square of 14 Janvier and construction of the World Social Center (WSC) Tower. This project reflects the political will to express the ideological and social changes brought about by the Tunisian revolution.
Fire Risk in High Rise Buildings News
Article about fire safety in the supertall buildings now being built. “The skyscraper is just about to get a whole lot bigger, with a whole lot more of them around. While the Shard is the tallest building in Europe, it will be dwarfed by the Kingdom Tower in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia – the first habitable building to pass the one kilometre mark.”
Kingdom Tower Jeddah: Saudi Arabian Skyscraper
Architect: Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture. Kingdom Tower to be the world’s tallest building. Construction started in April, with foundations completed in March. Building completion by 2018 deadline is highly unlikely at this point.
Torre Diagonal Zero Zero: EMBA Barcelona
Design: EMBA, led by the architect Enric Massip-Bosch. This 110m high Barcelona building is a “contextual tower” that has a double reading, from near and afar, in response to the two scales that such tall buildings must address
Oakmayne Tower London, Southwark Building
Design: Allies & Morrison. The iconic 125 meter high 41 story tower will provide 335 new homes, 33,000 sq ft of offices and ground floor retail in one of London’s most important regeneration areas. Views from the upper floors will offer panoramic sweeping vistas across London.
Gothenburg Skyscraper Competition
Architects Shortlisted for the Nordic region’s Tallest Building
Gothenburg Skyscraper Competition Shortlist news. The winner of this architecture competition will be announced on 17 Jun 2014. Once built this tower would become Scandinavia’s tallest building.
Ras Al Khaimah Gateway, UAE: Snøhetta
Design: Snøhetta, Norway – this landmark building in the desert 150 km east of Dubai was designed as a gateway to the emirate and an entrance to the new capital city of Ras Al Khaimah. The urban master plan for the city was by architectural practice OMA, The Netherlands.
Guardians of Time: Art Dubai 2013
Design: Manfred Kielnhofer – Guardians of Time Art Dubai 2013 Installation: “The Guardians of Time” are sculptures created by Manfred Kielnhofer, from Austria. The story behind these mystique illuminated creatures is about observing and protecting the world. They appear worldwide at historically important places.
Tallest skyscrapers under construction: tower buildings
Tallest skyscrapers buildings: European tower architecture designs: ten tallest buildings currently under construction in Europe, notably in Russia. Construction of the continent’s future tallest skyscraper, Lakhta Center in St. Petersburg, is under way. At a height of 463m, the tapering, pointed supertall will surpass the current record-holder, Moscow’s Mercury City, by 124m.