The Scalpel Tower Lime Street Skyscraper

The Scalpel Tower Lime Street

Design: Kohn Pederson Fox – KPF, Architects. This 38-storey tower is nicknamed due to its sharply faceted design. The 190m / 620ft high building will be the European headquarters for US insurance company WR Berkley.

60-70 St Mary Axe Skyscraper: Can of Ham

60-70 St Mary Axe Skyscraper

Design: Foggo Associates Architects. Nicknamed The Can of Ham building this tower is being developed by TIAA Henderson Real Estate, and built by Mace. The small curvy skyscraper is to contain over 277,000 sqft of offices across 24 floors.

The Pyramid Tower Jerusalem: Libeskind

The Pyramid Tower in Jerusalem by Libeskind

Design: Daniel Libeskind, Architects with Yigal Levi, architect. Controversy surrounds Daniel Libeskind’s pyramidal tower in Jerusalem. Following impassioned objections, the city recently approved the plan with major revisions.

31 London Street Development Paddington

31 London Street

Height of this tower design by Renzo Piano Building Workshop increases by 10%, to 254m. The skyscraper proposal at 31 London Street in Paddington is for Great Western Developments and Sellar Property Group.

Vauxhall Tower by Will Alsop London

Vauxhall Tower by Will Alsop

aLL Design architects. Plans submitted for a £6.6m residential tower in Vauxhall, located on the same street as Caruso St John’s recently completed gallery for Damien Hirst.

76 11th Avenue New York Skyscraper

76 11th Avenue New York City

Design: BIG architects

76 11th Avenue, between 17th and 18th Streets, which was acquired by HFZ Capital for $870 million back in April. The project will total nearly 800,000 sqft, and will be split between two buildings. The western tower will rise 402 ft while its eastern counterpart will stand 302 ft.

Steven Holl Copenhagen Harbour Gateway

Steven Holl Copenhagen Harbour Gateway

Design: Steven Holl Architects. Eight years after winning the competition this New York design studio have received approval to build a pair of skyscrapers in Copenhagen harbour, linked by a pedestrian and cycle bridge 65m above the water.

Turning Torso Tower Malmo

Turning Torso Tower Malmo

Architect and Engineer: Santiago Calatrava. The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) is pleased to announce this year’s winner of the 10 Year Award, Malmö’s Turning Torso. This is a mixed-use residential tower for a prominent site in Malmö’s Western Harbor area.

Bosco Verticale Best Tall Building Worldwide

Bosco Verticale

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) Awards Jury selected Bosco Verticale, Milan, as the “2015 Best Tall Building Worldwide” at the 14th Annual CTBUH International Best Tall Building Awards Symposium, Ceremony & Dinner held at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago.

Living Levels Building Friedrichshain

Living Levels

Design: nps tchoban voss. The area along the river Spree has from the historical point of view not much in common with the open and classic promenades one sees in Paris or Rome. Although in the heart of Berlin, this shore area belonged to the least desirable parts of the city.

Hualien Residences in Taiwan

Hualien Residences

Design: BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group. Hualien is a rapidly developing city located in the middle portion of Taiwan’s East coast. TLDC, a prominent land developer based in Taipei, has recently obtained license to turn what used to be an industrial and factory region into a world class beach resort.

Riverwalk London Residential Building, Westminster

Riverwalk London tower

Riverwalk, Westminster : Spectre Film Location/ This riverside London location was used in the latest James bond film ‘Spectre’ as the site of a fictional tower opposite the decaying MI6 building on the River Thames.

Rainbow Tower in Milan Building

Rainbow Tower

Design: Studio Original Designers 6R5 Network. The restoration of Milan’s Torre Arcobaleno is completed to mark Expo 2015. The renovation is a gift to the city and the visitors to Expo 2015.

The Rainbow Tower Milan

The modernisation work of the famous Torre Arcobaleno (Rainbow Tower) at Porto Garibaldi has been completed and was presented today, under the patronage of Milan City Council and in association with the Rete Ferroviaria Italiana and Gruppo FS Italiane railway authorities.

HoHo Tower in Vienna Building

HoHo Tower, Vienna Mixed-Use Development, Austrian Architecture, Images, HoHo Tower Mixed-Use Development in Vienna, Austria – design by RLP Rüdiger Lainer + Partner 3 Sep 2015 HoHo Tower in Vienna Design: RLP Rüdiger Lainer + Partner, Architects Location: Vienna, Austria Reach Higher With Wood New tower from RLP in Vienna’s Urban Lakeside. Basics Wood is very … Read more

Jübergtower Hemer Landesgartenschau building

Jübergtower Hemer Landesgartenschau building

With a 23.5 m high look-out tower, the “Landesgartenschau Hemer“ contributes a new landmark upon the city. The tower, which has been completed after a planning and construction period of merely nine months, comprises a hyperboloid of straight timber members.