BIG has completed a pair of towers with rippling and folded facades to house the offices of a state-owned energy company in Shenzhen. The Shenzhen Energy Mansion development is formed of two towers, one 220 metres high and one measuring 110 metres, linked by a 34-metre-tall podium at the base. Curving louvres along the facade
The post Pleated facades cover pair of Shenzhen skyscrapers by BIG appeared first on Dezeen.
Zaha Hadid Architects has revealed images of a 31-storey tower, planned for Paceville on the northern coast of Malta. Named Mercury Tower, the building would be eight storeys higher than the nearby 23-floor Portomaso Business Tower – currently the tallest building on the Mediterranean island. The 24,500 square metre tower was designed by the late Zaha Hadid and Patrik Schumacher,
The post Zaha Hadid Architects reveals plans for Maltese skyscraper appeared first on Dezeen.
The RMJM-designed Lakhta Centre in St Petersburg is Russia and Europe’s tallest building – standing 462 metres high. The twisted supertall skyscraper, which finished construction in June 2018, is the 13th tallest building in the world. Its 87 floors are currently being fitted out. Developers Gazprom, a Russian gas company that will occupy most of the
The post Europe’s tallest skyscraper revealed as it nears completion appeared first on Dezeen.
Supertall skyscrapers with rainbow facades and shaped like a mountain piercing a light-up cloud are on the shortlist for Southbank – a new tower in Melbourne, which if built would be Australia’s tallest building. The competition, run by developer Beulah International, to design a £1.1 billion mixed use development in the Australian city of Melbourne has drawn entries from
The post BIG, MAD, MVRDV and OMA on shortlist to design Australia’s tallest building appeared first on Dezeen.
Construction of a timber-framed high-rise building proposed for Portland’s Pearl District, which would have become one of the USA’s tallest wooden structures, has been postponed indefinitely. Local firm Lever Architecture designed the 130-foot (40-metre) mixed-used Framework tower to be one of the country’s first high-rises to adopt a wooden construction, employing a mix of two types of engineered wood: cross-laminated
The post Plans for “pioneering” Portland wooden high-rise put on hold appeared first on Dezeen.
The Gensler-designed Sapphire Residences in Colombo, Sri Lanka, will be connected by a sky bridge topped with a swimming pool, and have interiors by Philippe Starck. US architectural firm Gensler designed the skyscrapers for developer ITC Hotels. The shorter tower will be a 140-metre-tall hotel, while the taller one will reach 224 metres and will be
The post Gensler designs pair of triangular skyscrapers on Sri Lankan coast appeared first on Dezeen.
Penda has designed a residential tower in Tel Aviv, with facades made of modular archways and terraces, which aims to complement the city’s legacy of Bauhaus architecture. Vienna and Beijing-based architecture studio Penda has revealed plans for the 116-metre-high Tel Aviv Arcades, which has alternating setbacks to provide residents with sunny garden terraces or secluded private balconies.
The post Penda unveils designs for Tel Aviv tower wrapped in modular arcades appeared first on Dezeen.
Fouad Samara Architects has completed a tower in Beirut, which features huge steel panels that can slide out from reconfigurable apartments and be stored outside the building. Architect Fouad Samara is a key shareholder in the Modulofts project, which seeks to provide a new residential typology to meet the need for small and medium-sized accommodation in
The post Sliding walls animate the facade of Fouad Samara Architects’ Modulofts apartments appeared first on Dezeen.
French studio XTU Architects has developed a concept for four twisting glass towers in Hangzhou, China, featuring facades covered in panels impregnated with micro-algae. The studio’s design for French Dream Towers includes its patent-pending “bio facade” technology. The concept involves introducing a layer of algae to provide natural insulation, as well as offsetting the building’s environmental
The post XTU Architects proposes algae-covered towers for Hangzhou appeared first on Dezeen.
Architect Bjarke Ingels is building a pair of towers in New York that he says are shaped to “dance” with each other. Here’s a look at a few other buildings designed to look as if they are performing a rhythmic routine. The XI by BIG, New York, USA Ingels’ firm BIG recently unveiled new images of
The post Five “dancing” architecture projects that command an audience appeared first on Dezeen.
Copyright © 2024 | WordPress Theme by MH Themes
