Skyscraper
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Project • By LBR&A • Individual Buildings
Torre Reforma
Located on Paseo de la Reforma, Mexico City’s most renowned avenues, Torre Reforma is part of a cultural, historical, and financial district. It is a turning point for vertical urban growth in the megalopolis of Mexico City, having a 2,800 m2 ground site, extremely small for a high-rise building of roughly 87,000 m2. Its shape, derived by the architectural-structural parti, takes into consideration many social, financial and environmental factors. The 57 story building, distinguished by its triangular form, is composed of two 246 meter high exposed concrete walls, resembling the form of an open book, closed by a third glass-façade- metallic diagrid, with a panoramic view to Chapultepec Park. Its façades allow for a versatile column free spa... More
Project • By Filippo M. Martines and Cinzia Schiraldi Architects • Private Houses
Maison Atelier
The Casa-Atelier is the result of aconversion of a small attic which, in 1960, was a drying room on the top floor of the highest building in the heart of Città-Giardino. It had a terrace that led to a small toilet. Then, in 1990,the terraced was transformed bythe addition of a conservatory, a room with glass walls that housed a kitchen. The architects, who now live in the house, then proceeded to revolutionize the 29 sq. m of the attic and the 19 sq. m outdoors. The idea was: it doesn’t matter how many square metresyou have but the perception you have of them.
First, they expanded the usable space with the construction of three functional areas in wood: two partition wall in the front room, one at 900 and another along the parapet of the... More
Project • By Lemay_id • Apartments
738 Broadway
738 Broadway: this lavish four-apartment housing project offers modern living spaces adapted to the Big Apple’s new upbeat generation while allowing the McKenna building to proudly remind us of its industrial origin. The interior design was executed by Escobar Design by Lemay, previously Andres Escobar & Associates who recently joined Lemay.
The building now includes two 2400 square foot and a 3 200 square foot lofts spread out on its two first floors and is topped with a 2 400 square foot penthouse featuring a 900 square foot private terrace.
Industrial past dressed in white
The Broadway McKenna Building was originally a Greenwich Village industrial warehouse, built in 1867. During the industrial revolution, New York becomes steel... More
Project • By Yitan Sun, Jianshi Wu • Heritages
New York Horizon
As the busiest and most densely populated county in America, Manhattan has always been a big fan of skyscrapers. Limited by its street grid, however, buildings in New York City are often skinny and tall. Rather than constructing another slim tower by building upwards, "New York Horizon" envisions a new paradigm by digging downward to Central Park's bedrock, which will reveal the park’s rugged natural terrain while also creating a continuous wall of skyscrapers around its periphery to house habitable spaces with unobstructed views of the new underground park.
Envisioned by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux over 150 years ago, Central Park was so beautifully designed that the people of today overlook the fact that it is actually an ar... More
Project • By PLP Architecture • Offices
Nexus
Main Formulation
The starting point for the Nexus building is the search for an alternative to the high-rise point tower typology where a large central core is surrounded by usable space. In these kinds of buildings, the usual rich mix of internal spatial qualities: flexibility, views, and vertical movement are sacrificed to create an economy of scale of uniformly repeated floors with only minor variations in geometry in order to sculpt an external shape.
Consequently the experience of inhabitation and circulation is far from memorable since the qualities of the enclosed space are monotonous.
To confront this tendency Nexus starts by looking at how architecture is occupied and lived from within, favouring the users who daily inhab... More
Project • By ARUP • Commercial Landscape
1 Bligh Street
This elliptical-shaped office in the heart of Sydney set new standards for sustainability and innovative high-rise design in Australia.
1 Bligh Street, Sydney’s first 6 Star Green Star high-rise building, won the International Highrise Award 2012 during a ceremony which took place in Paulskirche in Frankfurt.
Designed by Germany's Ingenhoven Architects and Australia’s Architectus, the 139-meter-tall and 30 floors elliptical tower was chosen from 26 competitors from 17 countries.
Meshing design and engineering skills, Arup engineering services helped transform a bold architectural idea into a functional building through a close collaboration between German and Australian offices and involving a wide range of services, from façade,... More
Project • By SPEECH • Exhibitions
Towers installation
On 11th of April the INTERNI magazine annual art installations exhibition kicked off. This year the theme is Open Borders. Russian architects Sergei Tchoban and Sergey Kuznetsov, invited for a fifth time to participate in this show, have created the interactive sculptural arrangement Towers for the exhibition (together with Agnia Sterligova, Planeta 9).
Towers is a 12-meter-high cylindrical volume installed in the center of the main courtyard of the University of Milan. The tower that is in front of us effectively is rather a prototype of a tower because of its extremely laconic, even abrupt form. It is a kind of rough workpiece serving as a starting point for reflecting on the nature of architecture and the role of man-made dominants in... More
Project • By ZAAD Studio • Housing
Vertical Village: Farmanieh Residential Tower
Entry Title: Farmanieh Residential Tower
Client Name: Barzanegar Pouya Iranian Consulting Group
Designers: Farshad Mehdizadeh, Raha Ashrafi, Mohsen Marizad
Collaborators: ZAAD Studio, Marz Design
Images: Ehsan Karimi
Category: Residential Project
Status: Concept Design Complete 2015
Location: Farmanieh St., Tehran, Iran Size: 32.000 sqm
Design Context
The building site is located in Tehran in a region formerly populated with private gardens and orchards. However, with the passage of time and an exponential rise in property value the area has experienced a rapid transformation into an aggregation of high-rise structures for the wealthy.
Design Strategy
In response to the unique building context, a radial geometry was... More
Project • By Zaha Hadid Architects • Offices
Dominion Office Building
Located in Moscow’s Sharikopodshipnikovskaya Street, next to tram and trolleybus stops and near Dubrovka Station on the Lyublinskaya Line of the Moscow Metro, the Dominion Office Building is among the first of the new projects to be built for the growing creative and IT sectors in this primarily industrial and residential district in the southeast of the city.
Conceived as a series of vertically stacked plates off-set at each level with connecting curved elements, a central atrium rises through all levels to bring natural light into the centre of the building. Balconies at each level project into the atrium and correspond to the displacement of the outer envelope and a series of staircases interconnect through this central space.
Wi... More
Project • By gmp · von Gerkan, Marg and Partners Architects • Masterplans
Nanjing Financial City II
17-April-2017
With a height of 411 meters, the building comes under the high-rise building category of the “super-high skyscrapers” of the CTBUH, the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat. This means that the architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners are putting up their highest building ever on the third plot. Design activities for the first two building plots (A and B) had already started after the gmp master plan obtained first prize in the competition at the beginning of last year. Now the client has also given the go-ahead for the third building plot (C). The site lies to the south-west of the inner city next to the trade exhibition grounds, and is the key project for linking two urban axes of the Hexi New Town development.... More
Project • By Design Forum International • Offices
Cyberwalk
"Man belongs to nature and that is how he has been designed to function." Originating from this notion, CYBERWALK was conceived to bring man and nature together, within an office environment that would enable better Ideation, creative thinking that would lead to innovation in a relaxed working environment.
To aspire for the skies, to aspire for a walk in the clouds, to aspire for architecture that scales new heights of glory. And when it is about high performance glass, the result is a spectacular expression of class, contemporary style and classic architecture – Cyberwalk – the first LEED Gold certified building in Manesar, Gurgaon
With an aim to head to the greener pastures in contrast to the monotonous cubicle farms that are no pl... More
Project • By Skidmore, Owings & Merrill SOM • Hotels
Trump International Hotel and Tower
SOM’s charge for the design of Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago was the creation of an innovative high-rise in a high-profile location. The Trump Tower project benefits from SOM’s interdisciplinary approach to architecture, planning, and structural engineering, as well as from SOM's ability to recognize and deal with evolving socioeconomic trends, thus enabling its clients to adjust to changing market trends. More
Project • By Hamzeh Ma’aleah Manaseer and Hala Jameel Alabbadi • Housing
THE CITY DECAY
Our skyscraper represent the skyscraper design as a message to community through solving problems that come from urban observation on industrial city using new technologies , materials, programs , aesthetics , and spatial organizations, along with studies on how to introduce a new educational industrial vision in parallel with problem solving . This is also an investigation on the public and private space and the role of the individual and the collective in the creation of a dynamic and adaptive industrial vertical community.
our study:
nature gives meaning to human god is the first absolute,but nature is his minister and deputy,man in his natural state was happy,healthy and virtuous, most persons believe nature provides children and ad... More
Project • By Segond-Guyon Architectes • Universities
Embassy of France and French Institute in Jakarta
French Embassy is established in Jakarta since 1975, along the prestigious avenue of Jalan Thamrin. Project of the new diplomatic campus comes from the will to bring together all diplomatic and cultural French services in Jakarta, at a single location.
The campus is located between many skyscrapers and a major Highway. Despite its small scale as a five-storey building, the campus is affirming itself as a signal with two recognizable volumes. In this messy urban context, the building is setting apart thanks to its singular and homogeneous materiality. The project aims to provide a simple, clear readable architecture.
Programmatic entities are: Chancellery; economic, military and cultural missions; French Institute. This gathering impro... More
Project • By Impromptu Projects • Pavilions
M.A.P. PAVILION
Text: BABEL and Impromptu Projects
Macau Architecture Promenade(MAP) pavilion is the result of a worldwide open call for artists, launched by BABEL cultural organization. From more than 50 proposals from all over the world, BABEL has selected the large-scale architectural pavilion by Impromptu Projects (João Ó and Rita Machado).
The selection was based on the concept that an artwork to be contemporary must contain in itself a certain part of the future, rather than being only from its own time. The panel responsible for the selection, including Tiago Quadros and Margarida Saraiva, directors of BABEL cultural organization and José Drummond, artist and curator, considered that the work contained in itself three different possibilities of... More