Bund SOHO: China Best Tall Building Overall 2016

Bund SOHO

Bund SOHO: China Best Tall Building Overall, design by von Gerkan, Marg and Partners Architects (gmp) – the building “resolves a difficult site, historic surroundings, therequirements of the modern office building, and the responsibility of a high‐profile waterfront location.”

Vista Tower Chicago Skyscraper: Studio Gang

Vista Tower Chicago Skyscraper

Design: Studio Gang Architects ; Architect of Record: bKL Architecture. Three connected supertall skyscraper buildings in a row, with heights of 46, 70 and 95 storeys. The residential & hotel complex will be 1,140 feet (348 metres) high at its pinnacle.

2 WTC New York by Bjarke Ingels architect

2 WTC New York by Bjarke Ingels

Developer Silverstein Properties uncertain whether it will retain Bjarke Ingels Group for the project or go with original architect Foster + Partners, but learning toward Danish architecture studio BIG.

Shanghai Tower Tallest Building in China

Shanghai Tower Building China

“Unequivocally, Shanghai Tower will be one of the most sustainably-advanced…skyscrapers in the world,” says architect Marshall Strabala. The second-tallest building in the world, and tallest building in China, pushed Chicago’s Willis Tower, once the world’s tallest, out of the Top 10 list.

Alberni by Kuma in Vancouver tower

Alberni by Kuma in Vancouver tower

Design: Kengo Kuma & Associates, architects. Alberni by Kuma is a 43-storey residential tower at Alberni and Cardero designed by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma for Westbank Projects Corp in Vancouver.

Millbank Tower Renewal by John McAslan

Millbank Tower Renewal

Design: John McAslan + Partners. Consent obtained for refurbishment of the Grade II listed Millbank Tower to form 207 flats as well as a 150 bedroom hotel, gardens and a new cultural facility.

People’s Daily HQ Office Beijing

People's Daily HQ Office Beijing

Design: ZHOU Qi Studio, Architects

The form of the High-rise building comes from Chinese character “People”, corresponding to the title of the media People’s Daily. The triangular plan is transformed from the structure of the character “People”.

Centre Point London, Oxford Street Tower

Centre Point Crossrail London

New photos of Crossrail building work around a renewed Tottenham Court Road Tube Station and this famous London tower, a substantial concrete and glass office building, one of the first skyscrapers in London,

New Wooden Skyscraper London: Barbican Tower

New Wooden Skyscraper in London

Design: team from Centre for Natural Material Innovation, University of Cambridge with PLP Architecture. No it isn’t April Fool’s Day, a 300-m high wooden skyscraper has been proposed for central London by a team of Cambridge architecture researchers.

Manchester Skyscrapers by Architect Ian Simpson

Manchester River Street Skyscraper by Architect Ian Simpson

Design: Simpson Haugh & Partners, Architects. Plans submitted for four residential towers, from 38 to 64 storeys + a 42-storey glazed tower, 5 floors lower than the 554 ft tall Beetham Tower, the most famous building by this architecture studio

Film City Tower Competition, Mumbai

Film City Tower Competition

Film City Tower – Bollywood ReImagined architecture contest winners news. 1st prize: Jagoda Nowakowska, Magdalena Skop, Monika Woźniak (POLAND), 2nd prize: Advait Potnis, Jinish Gadhiya, Vatsal Upadhyay (INDIA), 3rd prize: Marcello Galiotto, Alessandra Rampazzo (Italy)

143 Fulton Street Hotel, Manhattan

143 Fulton Street Hotel New York

Design: SLCE Architects: 26-floor, 228-key hotel between Broadway and Nassau Street in the Financial District, proceeding after the demolition of the three-story commercial building on the site,

Bayside development in Toronto Lakeshore region

Bayside development in Toronto Lakeshore region

Design: ODA. The practice of orienting a home to the path of the sun is as old as civilization itself, and in nature, significantly predates it. Just as plants and flowers orient themselves to the sun through phototaxis, the newest building designed by ODA New York, appears to be doing the same.

Skyfarm Building: Tower Design by RSHP

Skyfarm by RSHP

Design: Rogers Stirk Harbour Partners with Arup. Skyfarm was initiated as a research project in response to the 2015 Milan Expo theme ‘feed the world’. It is said that by the year 2050 nearly 80 per cent of the earth’s population will reside in urban centres.

BASF SE High-Rise Building Ludwigshafen

BASF SE

Design: Eller + Eller Architekten. High rise office building design for BASF SE in Ludwigshafen, Germany, awarded the prestigious ‘Overall Winner’ prize at the conclusion of the Architectural Review MIPIM Future Projects Awards ceremony.