Skycraper

111-125 A’Beckett St, located in Melbourne’s CBD is a 65 storey mixed use development. Encompassing a heritage building, the podium houses ground floor retail, foyer space, a childcare centre, and car parking with residences activating the aspect towards A’Beckett St. 54 levels of tower then rise out of the podium, housing the remainder of the residential apartments, with residential amenities located on levels 1 and 9. The site is located on the northern fringe of Melbourne’s CBD. It enjoys immediate access to all of central Melbourne’s retail, recreation and employment opportunities, remaining animated yet distanced from the intensity of the busy city centre. The site is home to a heritage building which is... More

In the heart of the Big Apple, the entrance hall of a skyscraper has been decorated with Lapitec® slabs. The luxury building, a stone’s throw from Times Square at the intersection of two main Manhattan thoroughfares, is home to managerial and professional offices, plus the headquarters of a few fashion brands.Overseen by New York’s Fogarty Finger studio, the project exemplifies the high degree of workability offered by full body sintered stone and the impressive potential of large-format materials. Sintered internal stone cladding for the Entrance Hall The Lapitec® has been used to cover the reception's walls and the sides of the large desk, but it is in the lining of the lobby's central area, where the lift compartments... More

It is a building of huge dimensions and great complexity in execution, as the tight project execution deadlines required the facade to be installed while they finished constructing the 6 new floors on the building.With exceptional views, it has become one of the most avant-garde buildings in the cityULMA Architectural Solutions has installed its ventilated façade solution on the avant-garde tower with 124 apartments, 26 floors and a height of 100 metres in the very modern area of Diagonal. This spectacular skyscraper is located on the corner of Avenida Diagonal and Pere IV and is the ninth tallest building in the city. The project was carried out by Moliner Office Architects, a Barcelona-based architectural studio run by Jordi Mol... More

Today OMA participated in the official construction completion ceremony for the China Central Television (CCTV) Headquarters in Beijing, which will start to be used later this year. Designed by OMA as a reinvention of the skyscraper as a loop, construction on the building began in 2004. At approximately 473, 000m2, CCTV – accommodating TV studios, offices, broadcasting and production facilities – is OMA’s largest ever project and its first major building in China. Philippe Ruault CCTV defies the skyscraper’s typical quest for ultimate height. Rising from a common platform, two towers lean towards each other and eventually merge in a perpendicular, 75-metre cantilever. The design combines the entire process of T... More

The Galaxy SOHO project in central Beijing for SOHO China is a 330 000m2 office, retail and entertainment complex that will become an integral part of the living city, inspired by the grand scale of Beijing. Its architecture is a composition of five continuous, flowing volumes that are set apart, fused or linked by stretched bridges. These volumes adapt to each other in all directions, generating a panoramic architecture without corners or abrupt transitions that break the fluidity of its formal composition. The great interior courts of the project are a reflection of traditional Chinese architecture where courtyards create an internal world of continuous open spaces. Here, the architecture is no longer composed of rigid blocks, but inst... More

The ten story building Blok 1 is serving as a landmark and visual beacon of renewal for the Presikhaaf area. The solitaire character is enhanced by the overall orientation and composition of the facade. Due to the staggering and the amount of windows, the building seems bigger than it really is. Also, due to the variation in size of the windows, none of the student dorms are the same at the inside.The façade will be covered in paneling with a slightly differing finish, creating a subtle pattern that refers to the structure of a tree, without being literally recognisable. This pattern was developed by projecting a tree structure on the façade; the tree structure was then modified by dividing it into pixels, and by subsequently transforming t... More