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Luxury Tower

An overview of projects, products and exclusive articles about Luxury Tower

Project • By SOMA • Apartments

AVA Dubai

Ava demarcates itself from all other luxury residential developments by an unprecedented offering of luxury amenities and bespoke facilities. Each residence is meticulously crafted to the highest standards and offers a unique and fully serviced lifestyle for the residents, their families and staff. Caption The arrival experience for residents and visitors starts out with an unexpected disconnect from the urban realm as they leave the street and city noise and slowly begin their path of discovery towards their destination. Screened off by cascades of waterfalls, the building gradually appears as an isle, completely surrounded by an edgeless body of water that seamlessly extends towards the sea in a perfect continuity. Caption The... More

Project • By Alexander Gorlin Architects • Housing

The Orchard

The Orchard, a luxury rental development on the prominent intersection of Orchard and Delancey Streets in Manhattan's Lower East Side, comprises two floors of retail at street level with nine stories of one- and two-bedroom rental apartments above. Amenities include rooftop outdoor recreational space and a gymnasium. All apartments have balconies and northern and southern exposures ensuring exceptional views. More

Project • By Elenberg Fraser • Masterplans

Shadowplay

The new gateway to the south, our residential project Shadowplay, with developer BPM, is a fluttering, kinetic sculpture that celebrates its location – a playground of creativity and commerce in Melbourne’s Southbank. Like a silk scarf caught in a breeze, Shadowplay’s façade drips with a paradox of opulent weightlessness: a woven, undulating silver surface that is both there and not there, flowing over the strength beneath of its angular silhouette. This building appears almost alive – the pulsating surface contains gills created by the undulations of the façade, channeling and dispersing the south-west prevailing breeze. Interlacing floorplates form a stage which offers a dark side and a light side.... More

Project • By Elenberg Fraser • Masterplans

Aurora

Aurora Melbourne Central is a new metropolis, an integrated mixed use precinct with an alluring and seductive yet technologically advanced form. The proposed building has a rich fusion of Malay culture and Melbourne eccentricity, reflecting Melbourne’s position as a primary international south East Asian city. In this way we can create a metropolis that doesn’t have to be hard and gritty but rather has an organic softness.The hybrid form and plan of the tower is drawn from the hibiscus flower, a species constantly reproduced in Malaysia to create new, exciting colours and textures. In plan, the petals radiate out to the corners of the site, and the sculptural façade is three-dimensional, its textures merging into one anot... More