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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.
Berlin’s tallest residential tower design submitted to city planners: 150m-high skyscraper design by Ortner & Ortner Baukunst architects would be second only in height to the city’s 368m tall TV tower, Fernsehturm Berlin
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.
Design: Make Architects. Latest building proposal for the City of London: the 37-storey skyscraper towers over historic Leadenhall Market. The building, for developer Brookfield, will contain a free public viewing gallery.
Design Architect: BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group. One of the largest remaining development sites in the Hudson Yards rezoning, owned by Tishman Speyer: the building has 65 floors, containing 2.85 million sqft.
Design: Elkus Manfredi, Architects. The lower blocks of the Upper West Side have given rise to a sprinkling of skyscrapers in recent years. The tower will rise 666 feet to its roof, becoming the tallest building on the Upper West Side.
Design Architect: Foster + Partners. This 61-storey residential tower at 100 E 53rd Street on the corner of Lexington and 53rd Street, it replaces the old YWCA building in Midtown Manhattan.
Design: LAVA. These tall buildings form an iconic entrance to the city of Hangzhou. The design of the two towers is based on the Chinese characters for ‘gate’, and they feature a shimmering façade of fins
Design: HPP International Turkey. Four years after opening their Istanbul office, HPP have completed their first major project in Turkey. The 26-storey office tower has been succinctly named “AND” after the client, the multinational Anadolu Group.
Design: Vittorio Bonadè Bottino, architect. The tower is conceived as a single, endless dormitory with helical development, able to accommodate about 800 children of employees of the company FIAT.
Design: Zaha Hadid Architects. Mixed-use project, with condominiums and a space for a cultural institution. The project was one of the last that Zaha designed before she unexpectedly passed away.
Reimagine a New York City Icon Competition. $15k in prize money for the Most Innovative and Energy-Efficient Redesign of the Façade of 200 Park Avenue, (formerly the Pan Am Building).
Design: Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios. The vision for Oxford Road’s new neighbourhood is closer to realisation after joint venture partners Select Property Group and Bruntwood were given planning permission for the biggest planning application of the scheme.
Design: DDG Partners in house ; Architect of record: HTO Architects. Luxury condominium toweron the Upper East Side of Manhattan: “instead of a 30-foot-deep lot, abutting East 88th Street, the developer sliced off a narrow sliver only four feet wide.”
Design: Richard Meier & Partners, Architects. Trademark white eschewed for developer Sheldon Solow’s standard black : 42-story, 556-unit residential tower on the East River.
JTP and AR Urbanism win design contest for the ‘Paddington Pole’ site. The low-level buildings contrast with the 72-storey skyscraper designed by Renzo Piano next door to Paddington rail station.
Design: OMI Architects. A scheme for 349 apartments approved, within the Greengate/Exchange quarter of Salford, close to Manchester City centre. The largest element is a 44 storey rectilinear point block.