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The DiamantECO building is considered being a smart building. Having the ability to transform according to the main environment characteristics at a specific moment or period but also according to the habitats needs or habits.
Developed by Forest City Ratner Companies (FCRC), New York by Gehry at 8 Spruce Street is the first residential tower designed in New York City by world-renowned architect Frank Gehry
Design: MVRDV / Jerde / Arup. An international design team made up of MVRDV (overall design), The Jerde Partnership (commercial podium) and ARUP, collaborated to create Peruri 88 – a new landmark icon for Jakarta. It will be a vertical city in one building combining Jakarta’s need for more green spaces with the need for densification. The tower is a 400m tall mixed-use project with retail, offices, housing, a luxury hotel, four levels of parking, a wedding house, a mosque, imax theatres and an outdoor amphitheatre.
The history of the world’s tallest skyscrapers. Emporis, international provider of building data, looks back over more than 100 years of skyscraper history and presents towers that have been entitled to proudly bear the title of “World’s Tallest Building”. Two pioneering inventions from the second half of the 19th century, steel-frame construction and the elevator, set the path to construction of the world’s first skyscraper. The combination of the two was first used in 1908 in the Singer Building in New York City, USA.
With a program of simple apartments, the project deals mainly with the horizontal stacking of slabs from which projects a series of specifically shaped brises-soleil, creating a constant play of shadow on the façade, itself composed of a semi-structural glazing of sliding panels.
On November 1st, Wolf D. Prix will be awarded the prestigious Hessian Culture Prize for Coop-Himmelb(l)au’s design of the new European Central Bank (ECB) in Frankfurt.
Global alternative asset manager The Carlyle Group announces that the Southwark Council’s Strategic Planning Committee last night approved Carlyle’s planning application to replace the Sampson House data-centre and Ludgate House office building.
Although aspects of this building look perfectly normal – the straight tower, the repetitive fenestration – look at the podium, it has been jacked 36m above ground level. Why? The architects put forward their case which seems based on challenging tradition, “defying an architectural convention” but also on trying to ‘broadcast’ the virtual activities of the city’s financial market by being more visible, ‘glowing at night’.
Zhengzhou Greenland Plaza is the tallest building in the central Chinese city of Zhengzhou. The building houses office space and a 435-room hotel.
Varyap Meridian is a complex of 1,500 apartments, a five-star hotel, offices and conferencing space in the Ataşehir district of Istanbul, Turkey.
The Bow Calgary, EnCana and Cenovus Headquarters, Alberta building design by Foster + Partners with Zeidler Partnership: headquarters tower is tallest building in Canada outside of Toronto – logic to the form is robust
Pearl River Tower: Guangzhou skyscraper development design by SOM Architects: 71-story contemporary Chinese high-rise building whose structural form is one of the most energy-efficient skyscrapers in the world.
Foster + Partners has completed a new UK headquarters for Willis at 51 Lime Street in the City of London. The project is significant in both urban and environmental terms. Open and integrated at street level, its shops and cafés extend the spirit of nearby Leadenhall Market
Anna van Buerenplein Tower Den Haag, Fortress Projectontwikkeling BV, The Hague, AvB Design Anna van Buerenplein Tower : Den Haag Building AvB Tower Development in The Hague, Holland – design by Wiel Arets Architects 10 Sep 2013 AvB Tower Den Haag, The Netherlands Design: Wiel Arets Architects WAA complete the AvB Tower in The Hague, … Read more