Porta Nuova Varesine Residential Tower Milan

Porta Nuova Varesine Residential Tower Milan

Design: Arquitectonica, architects. Tallest residential tower in Milan, high-end high-rise living with two towers. The Porta Nuova Varesine mixed-use master plan and urban renewal project is one of the most significant redevelopments in Italy.

15 Hudson Yards, New York City

15 Hudson Yards

Design: Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Rockwell Group with Ismael Leyva Architects. Located at the northeast corner of 30th Street and 11th Avenue, 15 Hudson Yards will be the first residential building to open at Hudson Yards.

77 Greenwich Street Tower: NYC Skyscraper

77 Greenwich Street Tower

Design: FXFOWLE Architects. A 35-story mixed-use project in Manhattan’s Financial District can proceed, thanks to approval from the Landmarks Preservation. The tower building subtly cantilevers over the an individual landmark.

Hudson Yards Development New York

Hudson Boulevard tower New York by BIG

434-444 Eleventh + 550 West 37th Street, Hudson Yards District: Tishman Speyer has closed on the purchase of 434-444 Eleventh and 550 West 37th Street. Plans for the site call for a 1.3-million square-foot office tower.

10 Hudson Yards, New York City Skyscraper

Hudson Yards, Viewed From The High Line

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.

3 Sutton Place Tower Skyscraper

3 Sutton Place Skyscraper by Foster and Partners

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.

Skyslide US Bank Tower Los Angeles

Skyslide at US Bank Tower in Los Angeles

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.

Reimagined Tatlin’s Tower Jakarta, Indonesia

New Tatlin’s Tower Jakarta building

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.

Helter Skelter Orbit: Olympic Park Slide, London

Helter Skelter Orbit Slide Olympic Park

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”.

Sheung Wan Ibis Hotel Hong Kong Building

Sheung Wan Ibis Hotel in Hong Kong

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.

Salling Tower at Aarhus Harbour sculpture

Salling Tower

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.

Union Square Aberdeen Shops, Stores

Union Square Aberdeen

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.

151 East 60th Street Tower, New York City

151 East 60th Street Tower

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.

Next Tokyo Mile High Skyscraper by KPF

Next Tokyo Mile High Skyscraper by KPF

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.