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Design: Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF) architects. 10 Hudson Yards is located at the northwest corner of 30th Street and 10th Avenue. The 1.8-million-sqft tower, designed to meet LEED Platinum standards, will be 52 stories and stand 895 feet tall.
The capital has 436 buildings over 20 storeys in the pipeline – and, of those submitted over the past year, only three have been rejected, reports The Guardian.
Design Architect: Foster + Partners. Planned 68-story, Norman Foster-designed condo tower at 3 Sutton Place proposal up in the air due to foreclosure proceedings against Bauhouse, the skyscraper building’s developer.
Design: SHoP Architects
Proposal for the tallest tower in Brooklyn: a 1,066-foot building which would be almost twice as high as anything surrounding it, at 9 DeKalb Avenue
Architects: Gensler. Glass slide suspended from 1,000 feet up! A proposed intervention at the US Bank Tower in downtown Los Angeles to let people glide down the building’s exterior.
Design: PHL Architects. Taking the design conceived by Russian architect Vladimir Tatlin for St. Petersburg after the the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. Now PHL Architects have taken that design into the 21st century, proposing a version in Jakarta.
Design: Bblur Architecture. Approval gained to wrap a giant slide around the ArcelorMittal Orbit sculpture in London’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. The 178-metre-long helter skelter will be the “world’s longest and tallest tunnel slide”.
Design: Chung Wai / Tony Lam of AGC Design. The story begins by tracing back in the 1920s Sheung Wan. The design reflects the historical streetscape of Hong Kong. The identity of the rectangular tenement house all seems to be in specific repetitive order, forming a uniform but dynamic streetscape.
Design: Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter. The tower is shaped like a sharp origami cut, urban sculpture with a significant architectural expression. The white steel tower stands out as a glowing landmark giving identity to the area and act as a point of reference and meeting in this new part of the city.
Design: Benoy, Architects. 15 storey hotel tower plans part of a £200m expansion of Aberdeen’s Union Square shopping mall on behalf of Hammerson: an application for planning in principle for a new hotel and expanded retail, cinema and multi-storey car park.
Tower Design: Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates. KPF’s entry into a design contest show a building rising on the corner of Lexington Avenue and East 60th Street, stretching Midtown’s new skyscraper crown a few blocks northeast.
Design: Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF). This mile-high tower is 420 stories tall. The skyscraper building design is for Next Tokyo, a conceptual Japanese megacity for a half million residents.
Design: BIG Architects “How can architecture create communities?” The title of a Bjarke Ingels talk captures BIG’s ambition for a site on downtown Toronto’s King Street West.
Design: sanzpont [arquitectura], architects. The design concept is “inspired by the natural elements of the Caribbean”. The building consists of 2 vertical bodies that meet at the top by 2 habitable bridges to form a large frame.
Design: SANAA, architects with Bernardo Gomez Pimienta. The Neruda Tower is a mixed use office building designed by the Japanese firm SANAA located in the city of Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico.
Design: Doone Silver Architects and Flanagan Lawrence. 12 New Fetter Lane has completed. The new 15-storey office building makes a virtue out of a challenging triangular plot in London’s Midtown.
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