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Numerous improvements revealed for Chicago’s tallest building. Totaling up to $500 m the renovations will include six floors of new retail space, an outdoor deck and a winter garden. The tower was once the world’s tallest building for 25 years.
Instead of building a 1,000 foot-tall spire, Silverstein Properties is exploring a plan to build two towers in separate phases at 514 Eleventh Avenue, a former Mercedes-Benz car dealership purchased in 2015
Design: Hodder+Partners, Architects. £35m 27-storey building, the first of a pair of large-scale residential towers near to Liverpool’s central business district, contains 168 homes. The development sits within the buffer zone boundary of Liverpool’s World Heritage Site.
The building of a development, Varso Towers, comprising three buildings including an office tower designed by Foster + Partners, has begun with completion expected for 2020
CTBUH Awards annual review of tall building construction trends – with 128 buildings of 200 meters’ height or greater completed around the world – setting a new record for annual tall building completions.
Architect: Aedas. This building reflects the traditional Chinese totem of bamboo, rejuvenating the old town of Shenzhen. This 200-m super high-rise will house the headquarters for Tellus-Gmond, lettable office spaces and a jewellery trading centre.
Design: spatial practice, architects. A simple building design: the horizontal band defines the uninterrupted view of the park, mountain, and sea; while also performing as a sustainable shading element to reduce heat gain.
Design: 51N4E architects. The Albania building complements the most important monuments of Tirana: the Skanderbeg statue, the oldest mosque, the clock tower and – at the foot of the tower – a memorial tomb for the city’s founder Suleiman Pasha.
Architects Elenberg Fraser claim the building design is inspired by the music video of ‘Ghost’ by Beyoncé. The twisting architecture is created entirely by parametric modelling, its spiralling curves recall the “twists and turns of a woman dancing in black cloth”.
Design: RTA-Office, architects
Six office towers: two tall buildings of 160 m, two of 100 m and two adjacent buildings of 70 m each. The architecture design was made under rigorous volumetric constraints that included a symmetrical configuration.
Design: gmp · von Gerkan, Marg and Partners. IT industrial operation center with adjacent high-rise office block in Guangzhou for one of the leading Chinese telecommunications companies: two high-rise buildings linked by a five-story plinth.
27-story-tall mixed-use building design by CAZA (Carlos Arnaiz Architects) features three floors of commercial retail and dining space & also has corporate offices for prominent international companies
Design: Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners. Along with the shading utilise a wide spectrum of environmental features including harbour water heat rejection, solar panels, rainwater capture and recycling, blackwater treatment, there is a basement with parking for three times more bicycles than cars.
Architects: BIG. Twisting towers mark Danish architect’s first condominium completed in the U.S. More than half of the project’s 98 units are owned by domestic end-users.