On October 21, Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates unveiled its slender, cone-shaped design for what will become one of Asia’s tallest buildings.
Skidmore, Owings and Merrill has broken ground on the $1.7 billion Digital Media City Landmark Tower in Seoul, South Korea. With a planned height of 2,100 feet, it is expected to be East Asia’s tallest tower by the time it’s completed in 2014.
The country’s tallest building – the 412m Al Hamra Tower – is on track to open in 2010, construction officials have confirmed.
Designed by Skidmore, Owings and Merill, the tower is being built in Kuwait City by Turner Construction with Ahmadiah Contracting and Trading Company and will be the world’s largest sculpted tower once completed.
The supertall [...]
This 180m-high Herzog & de Meuron-designed pyramid tower is a proposal for the first skyscraper in Paris for 30 years.
The 50-storey building will be situated in the south-west of the city at the Porte de Versailles.
It has been nicknamed the ‘Delanoë tower’ after the city’s socialist mayor Bertrand Delanoë, who won the fight to bring [...]
pToday New York developers Izak Senbahar and Simon Elias unveiled the design of 56 Leonard Street, a 57-story condominium tower that is now under construction in Manhattan’s Tribeca Historic District. It will be the first skyscraper realized by Switzerland–based Herzog amp; de Meuron./p
Two days ago, the all-authoritative Xinhua produly proclaimed that the new building, which is to be named Shanghai Center (we are unsure if this has any relation to the existing Shanghai Center) will be the tallest building east of Dubai at 580 meters and 118 stories. According to them, that’s 72 meters higher than the Taipei 101 Tower, currently the tallest building in Asia at 508 meters.
BusinessWeek and Architectural Record announced the 2007 Architectural Awards.
The submissions are:
1. Award of Excellence – InterActiveCorp Headquarters – New York
Architect: Gehry Partners/Studios Architecture
2. Award of Excellence – Young Center For The Performing Arts – Toronto
Architect: Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects
3. Award of Excellence – U.S. Census Bureau Headquarters – Suitland Md.
Architect: Skidmore, Owings & [...]
The city’s planning board has endorsed a proposal for a twisting lakefront tower that would become the nation’s tallest building.
With Thursday’s approval from the Chicago Plan Commission, the design and site plan for the 2,000-foot Chicago Spire goes to the city zoning committee next week.
“This is a wonderful project, and everyone is very enthused,” said [...]
Burj Dubai, the world’s tallest skyscraper, is facing construction delays of at least a year after a leading contractor on the project went bankrupt, leaving the tower without any external walls.
Work that should have begun in the first quarter of last year won’t start until April at the earliest following the collapse of Switzerland-based Schmidlin [...]
Dubai Tower to be Solar-PoweredTopic: Innovations Forget the
kilometer-high Burj Dubai under construction in the Persian Gulf’s fast-
growing city-state. A British consortium is building something even wilder,
which surely qualifies as the world’s largest bona-fide gadget: The Time
Residences tower, a solar powered skyscraper that will use the electricity
thus generated to rotate through 360 degrees. “We didn’t want to build
just another building or tower, we wanted to create something unique – a
precious place to live – a genuine contender to be one of the great
buildings in the world,” said Tav Singh, director of Dubai Property Ring,
the Dubai arm of UK-based property investors UK Property Group. The
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