Tall buildings

Piraeus Tower is the tallest structure at the port of Piraeus and the second tallest building in Greece after the Tower of Athens. With a height of 88 meters, its presence dominates the image of the port for five decades. The original tower designed by the architects I. Vikelas, G. Molfesis and A. Loizou was completed in 1975 but the interior has never been occupied, except for the first three floors. Being dormant since 1975, the City of Piraeus with a consortium of investors, transformed the inactive structure into a mixed-use tall building, of which PILA designed its new facade for the ‘rebirth’ of Piraeus Tower. They are also the designers of all interior common spaces accessible to office visitors and tenants. The awakeni... More

These three signature residential towers—World One, World View, and World Crest—have an iconic presence on Mumbai’s skyline, providing exceptional comfort and amenity for residents while creating a memorable new destination within the city.The complex overlooks a lush garden at the heart of Lodha Place, a 17-acre mixed-use development designed by Pei Cobb Freed & Partners on the site of a former textile mill in Mumbai’s Lower Parel district. The towers’ unique cloverleaf plans and varying tiers are a decisive response to the singular challenge of creating multiple residential towers on a dense site. Rising to 280 meters, World One is the tallest building in India. The apartments—six World Residences... More

The design for the Tianjin Chow Tai Fook Binhai Centre uses undulating curves to subtly express three programmatic elements while presenting a bold monolithic expression on the skyline. The 530-meter-tall skyscraper will house offices, 300 service apartments, and a five-star, 350-room hotel. The tower will be a striking new landmark in the Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area (TEDA), located just outside Tianjin.The gently curving glass skin conceals eight sloping columns that lie behind the primary bends of the elevation and increase the structure’s stiffness in response to seismic concerns. Strategically placed, multistory wind vents combined with the tower's aerodynamic shape reduce vortex shedding, which in turn dramati... More

World's Seventh-tallest Building Created by Ronald Lu & Partners Using “BIM” Digital Design Technology The 530m-tall Tianjin Chow Tai Fook Financial Centre is a modern design marvel.  RLP used building Information modelling (BIM) technology, an intelligent 3D model-based process, to design and execute the complex structure   Ronald Lu & Partners (RLP) is committed to advancing architectural design in the digital age, implementing cutting-edge technologies to create a better life at every opportunity. The 530-metre-high Tianjin Chow Tai Fook Financial Centre (“the tower”; “the Centre”) is an excellent example of the firm’s commitment to excellence.   The seventh-tallest b... More

Tall | Community | MetrogradeTwo 35 StoreysResidential + Day CareScarborough, Ontario668 Dwelling Units More

A landmark Metrogate community at 151 Green Village Square. Overlooking the lush, green eco-friendly Metrogate Park, AVANI is a condominium address that resonates with sleek symmetry, striking glass silhouettes of glass, pre-cast detailing and modern design, State-of-the-art amenitiesAs a community, Metrogate has been designed to ensure that daily conveniences – leisure time, childcare and even the daily commute – are well within reach. Pedestrian-friendly streets give way to beautiful town homes, modern high-rise residences, spectacular recreational amenities and even two on-site daycare centres. Not only that, the community’s ideal location at Kennedy Rd. and Hwy. 401 puts the surrounding urban pursuits and conveniences well within reach. More

The Nautilus tower is composed of two offset glass boxes resting on a precast podium. The result is a sleek and slender Tower and defines an entry to the community – a gateway.The signature feature of the building is the composition of the balcony slabs and glass handrails on the Tower facade. The architecture makes reference to Toronto’s historically nautical waterfront through this composition as to suggest the fluid nature of a nautical sail.The podium is composed of a framework of precast concrete + glass that houses a mix of retail, recreational + residential components including a second floor outdoor amenity roof terrace complete with gardens and passive outdoor spaces.The materials used for this phase are similar to the previous pha... More

Rising high above Central Mumbai, World One is the tallest of three signature residential towers that form the core of Lodha Place, a 17-acre mixed-use development master planned by Pei Cobb Freed & Partners in 2009.World One’s unique cloverleaf plan is a decisive response to the singular challenge of creating an iconic supertall residential tower on a dense site. The apartments—six “world residences” per floor in the first tier, two “world villas” per floor in the second tier, and duplex “world mansions” at the top of the tower—are naturally cross-ventilated, with high-performance low-E glazing and automated lighting controls.The building’s unique shape provides ample solar shading as well as panoramic views of the city. Additional sus... More

Tencent is the first company in Asia valued above $500 billion, the world’s fourth-largest internet business, and the most innovative company in China. Just as Tencent’s products transform the way society uses technology, the design of its headquarters re-envisions what the future skyscraper could look like and how it could function, not just for Tencent employees, but for workers everywhere. The design premise breaks away from the sprawling suburban campus model not easily replicable in dense cities and moves away from the traditional corporate high-rise where staff are disconnected from each other. Instead, Tencent’s headquarters splits a single high-rise into a pair of towers, one 50 stories and the other 39 stories, linking them to... More

One Dalton rises at the juncture of two Boston neighborhoods: the Back Bay, with its tree-lined streets of nineteenth-century townhouses, and the western end of the city’s High Spine, comprising the largest-scale complex in Boston, with the 52-story Prudential Center at its heart. This fascinating juxtaposition of scales presented one of the major challenges of the project.   A second challenge—the site’s unusual equilateral triangular shape—is a product of the nineteenth-century railway lines and former railyards, which dictated the street plan, and Massachusetts Avenue, which edges the array of Back Bay blocks. To mitigate the aggressively long sides and sharp corners of the triangular site, the plan of... More

A tower, weaving strands of linear mid-rise office space, and interconnected public spaces comprise this highly awarded, highly sustainable headquarters complex in Milan.Palazzo Lombardia provides office and support spaces in a form that is efficient, flexible, and accessible to the public, along with outdoor gathering places intended to enhance public life and stimulate regeneration of the district.In both scale and materiality, the podium relates to the surrounding neighborhood, while the 160-meter-tall tower addresses the nearby Pirelli Tower, the government’s former headquarters and a major icon of the modern era. The lively formal dialogue between the two structures evokes and enriches their intimate functional relationship: the Pirell... More

Torre Espacio occupies an exceptionally privileged site on the most important avenue in Madrid, Spain. The program consists of 43 office floors, two corporate floors at the top of the tower, 3 floors of commercial spaces at the base of the building, and 6 levels of underground parking. Besides providing efficient and attractive office space, Torre Espacio is designed to energize the space in which it stands and animate the skyline of Madrid.   The design of Torre Espacio evolves from a square plan at its base to a gently curved lozenge, shaped by the intersection of two quarter-circles, at its crown. Were this a work of sculpture, such a form could readily be carved from a solid block of stone. But as a work of architecture, its inte... More

Occupying an exceptional site at the heart of Istanbul’s new central business district, the Kristalkule complex integrates diverse components while engaging two very different urban contexts.Facing the burgeoning CBD, with its cluster of highrises, the 35-story glass tower anchors the east end of the site and animates the skyline with a distinctive prismatic form. The upper levels house a soaring sky garden and event space; at street level the building is fronted by a generous entry plaza on one side, while on the other it is joined to an extensive stone-clad base that supports, at the opposite end, a twelve-story office block. With a travertine stone curtain wall and punched windows, the smaller tower reflects the scale and materiality of... More