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Moscow’s Shukhov Radio Tower is a 50-story conical structure of steel latticework designed by the legendary engineer Vladimir Shukhov. Proposals are in place to demolish this famous tower building. Opponents of the demolition are mobilising to counter this threat to an architectural treasure.
The hyperbolic tower was designed and constructed by the great Russian engineer and scientist Vladimir Shukhov (1853-1939) in 1929 on the Oka River.
Dubai Architecture School Tower Competition. This was an open international architecture competition hosted by [AC-CA] to generate progressive contemporary design ideas. There are no plans for the Architecture School Tower to be built. Design Contest winners: Evan Shieh + Ali Chen, architecture students from USA
Make Architects complete its first residential building in Hong Kong: Dunbar Place. The 23-storey project was designed for Swire Properties, who was involved in the development of the property, and comprises 53 apartments.
IND [Inter.National.Design] + Powerhouse Company in collaboration with ABT have won the Çanakkale Antenna Tower International Competition, near the city of Çanakkale in western Turkey.
Eight international teams where shortlisted to design a 100-m tall Observation and Broadcast Tower for the historic city of Çanakkale.
Architects Dominique Perrault inaugurate the tallest building in Austria. When an architect delivers a building it is always an extremely emotional moment, marked by the end of a long process of mediation, from absolute potentiality of early sketches to fine tuning in situ of final details
Architects: Make architects
910,000 sq ft building offering world class office and retail accommodation
34 storeys tall building will complement London’s skyline
Henderson Global Investors’ c. £12.7 billion Property Business has secured a resolution to grant planning permission from the City of London for its scheme at 40 Leadenhall Street.
Design: Architects of Invention
3rd Prize Winner for Telecom Tower Competition Santiago, Chile
The young London-Moscow-Tbilisi-based practice Architects of Invention has received 3rd Prize for Telecommunications Tower in Santiago de Chile.
The concept of this tower suggests the volcano and optical phenomena such as the halo and the sun pillar. The ideas originate with the early modernists such as Rodchenko, Tatlin, Yakov Chernikhov and Malevich.
Architects : Dominique Perrault with Hoffmann and Janz. With its height of 250 meters and 60 floors the DC Tower 1 is the tallest building in Austria. The renowned French architect Dominique Perrault is responsible for the spectacular architecture with its extraordinary “folded” facade and slim structure.
Design: ESD + Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture. Federation of Korean Industries Tower Opens In Seoul. The 50-story, 240 meter tall tower is the first in South Korea to use a pressurized underfloor air distribution system, includes integrated photovoltaic panels on its façade
Richard Meier & Partners new project in Mexico City. The new Reforma Towers will become a dynamic mixed-use development composed of two towers with offices, a hotel, retail space, restaurants and a fitness center. Sitting boldly along this Boulevard, the proposed development is a mixed-use building complex developed with Diametro Arquitectos.
High-rise construction in North America: Toronto continues to lead the way, and remains North America’s high-rise boomtown with 130 skyscrapers currently under construction. New York City, the “real” center of North American high-rise architecture, only appears in second place on 91 buildings.
Scott Resnick announce Foster + Partners as design architect of 551 West 21st Street – a modern, 19-story luxury condominium overlooking the Hudson River in West Chelsea. 551 West 21st Street features 44 large-scaled residences, including three penthouses. Beyer Blinder Belle is the executive architect, and construction of the fully-financed building is under way with anticipated occupancy in the fall of 2015.
Design: Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF). The Sequis Centre Tower in Jakarta, to be Indonesia’s first LEED Platinum building, has started on site. The tower building paves a new direction for Jakarta’s future growth, not only redefining the CBD skyline, but also setting a new standard for sustainability within Indonesia’s burgeoning economy.
Design: GLR arquitectos – Gilberto L. Rodríguez. Project for a mixed use building located in the exclusive area of Valle Oriente, in Monterrey, Mexico. A two storey commercial block with a single level of speculative office space at the back. On top of the large basement that these two elements represent and their respective underground parking area, are two dark grey towers of monolithic appearance.