Al Hamra Tower, Kuwait City Skyscraper

Al Hamra Tower Kuwait City Skyscraper building

New photos of Al Hamra Tower, the tallest building in Kuwait and 23rd tallest in the world. Designed by architecture offices Skidmore, Owings and Merrill and Callison, it is the tallest carved concrete skyscraper in the World at 414 m (1,358 ft).

FOUR Frankfurt Towers Complex

FOUR Frankfurt Towers by UNStudio + HPP Architects

Following the announcement by Groß & Partner of UNStudio as unanimous winner of the architectural design competition for the FOUR Frankfurt project, UNStudio join with HPP Architects to create a consortium (UNS + HPP) to carry out the next phases.

Zhenghong Property Air Harbour Office Project

Zhenghong Property Air Harbour Office Project

Zhenghong Property Air Harbour Office Project, designed by Aedas, comprises three interconnecting office buildings in Zhengzhou, the provincial capital of Henan Province and a major transportation hub in central China.

BFC Corporate Building Retrofit São Paulo

BFC Corporate Building

BFC Corporate Building is a retrofit in the Brazilian Financial Center, in São Paulo, located in the Paulista Avenue. Bought by Brazilian Financial Center, the building is now undergoing a retrofit process, developed by Perkins + Will.

76 Eleventh Avenue New York Towers

76 Eleventh Avenue New York Towers

Construction of The Eleventh, designed by Danish architects BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group, has started. The two High Line towers of 25 & 34 floors are located between 17th & 18th Streets and Tenth & Eleventh Avenues, and joined by glass skybridges.

1 Leadenhall Tower: City of London Skyscraper

1 Leadenhall Building City of London Tower

Design: Make Architects. Canadian developers Brookfield receive a resolution to grant consent from the City of London for 1 Leadenhall, a 36- storey tower. The 183m high building will be sited next to the historic Leadenhall Market.

Salesforce Tower Building by Pelli Clarke Pelli

Salesforce Tower Building by Pelli Clarke Pelli

Salesforce Tower, designed by Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects: this 1,070-foot office skyscraper, the tallest building in San Francisco, joins the Golden Gate Bridge and the Transamerica Building as one of the skyline’s defining elements.

Vauxhall Cross Island in London by Zaha Hadid

Vauxhall Cross Island in London by Zaha Hadid

Designed by Zaha Hadid Architects the buildings proposed for Vauxhall Cross respond to the emergence of the cluster of tall buildings proposed to the south of the site and have been designed to work with the other buildings.

Taichung Condominium Tower Building

Taichung Condominium Tower Building

Design: Richard Meier & Partners. This condo tower developed by Fubon Land will be a luxury residential building and is intended to become a modern landmark that captures the essence of the new and growing urban context of Taichung, Taiwan.

The Cheesegrater London: Leadenhall Building

The Cheesegrater London, 122 Leadenhall Street Building, Architects, Tower, Image, Design Cheesegrater London : The Leadenhall Building London Skyscraper, England – design by Richard Rogers, architect 11 Jan 2011 The Cheesegrater Tower Latest photo of The Cheesegrater tower site by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners: groundwork for The Cheesegrater is in the foreground, with The … Read more

Leadenhall Building London, City Offices

Leadenhall Building City of London

Design: Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners. The new public space at the base of The Leadenhall Building spans over half an acre, the largest area of publicly accessible space created in the City of London for a decade.

London Architecture News 2017: Developments

40 Leadenhall Street London Skyscraper

Grenfell Tower Fire – massive blaze engulfs 24-storey block of flats in west London, dating from 1974. Over 200 firefighters are tackling the blaze. The building was recently reclad and renewed internally.

Residential Tower in Bogotá, Apartment Building

Residential Tower in Bogotá

Bogle Architects appointed to design the façade envelope of a 19-storey, high-end residential tower in Bogotá, the capital of Colombia. The architecture office has developed an innovative, layered façade system that respects the local context while maximising views across the city.