Zaha Hadid Architects   China   Zaha Hadid Architects wins competition for Tower C at Shenzhen Bay Super Headquarters Base, that will be a major business and technology center of the Chinese city, and will include residential and cultural developments as well as generous green zone

Ensamble Studio   United States   Designing a tower is often reduced to a boring exercise of cleverly resolving a central core and a more or less fancy facade. And between the two, a monotonous pile of identical floors, and identical spaces. Big Bang Towers explore the spatial and st

Herzog & de Meuron   Switzerland   More elaborated plans for the latest revamp of the Roche campus in Basel (Switzerland) have been unveiled. With the transfer to the research center now under construction in the north zone, the pharmaceutical company’s offices and laboratories in the

Zaha Hadid Architects   Hong Kong   Located in the heart of the city’s central business district, beside I.M. Pei’s Bank of China Tower, this 36-floor office building on Murray Road replaces a multi-story car park with a scheme that reinterprets the forms of the bud of a Bauhinia x bla

OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture   China   This mixed-used skyscraper designed by OMA / David Gianotten contains 60,000 square meters of offices over a 40,000-square-meter podium mall. Built by the real estate developer China Merchants Shekou Holdings in Shenzhen’s Shekou economic zone, the 2

Sou Fujimoto   Philippines   The bahay kubo huts, built with bamboo, are cultural icons of Philippine culture, and are reinterpreted in this tower with a grid that grows organically until reaching a height of 132 meters... [+]  

Sou Fujimoto   France   The new urban complex, designed by Sou Fujimoto, Nicolas Laisné, and Dimitri Roussel, starts out with a domestic scale in the south end and rises until reaching a height of 50 m that turns it into a landmark on the outskirts of Paris... [+]

Sou Fujimoto   France   Surrounded by undulating platforms that control sunlight and views, the Joia Meìridia Tower will rise 54 meters high, is part of a new mixed-use urban development in the coastal city of Nice... [+]

Foster + Partners   United States   With a form that is a pure expression of the function, the tower is divided into three stacked volumes, with the core placed to the rear. Standing alongside icons by Mies, Saarinen, and Johnson, it is the first office block to go up on Park Avenue in

Foster + Partners   Canada   With 80 floors and 306 in height, the tower is a clearly articulated building that differentiates the commercial units at lower levels from the apartments above. The structural frame is expressed on the facade, becoming a distinctive addition to the

ODA   United States   The high-rise proposed by ODA, the New York practice of Eran Chen, incorporates a sculptural void with irregular openings giving views of the sea, mountains, and the city of Seattle. Designed for the real estate firm Crescent Heights, the 361-meter-t

The New York Times   Stefanos Chen   The Rafael Viñoly-designed 432 Park Avenue supertall tower, one of the wealthiest addresses in the world, faces some significant design problems, and other luxury high-rises may share its fate. The nearly 1,400-foot tower at 432 Park Avenue, briefly

The Architect's Newspaper   Matt Hickman   London-based Heatherwick Studio has shared design plans for a pair of “curvaceous, light-filled” residential towers jointly commissioned by Bosa Properties and Kingswood Properties for Vancouver’s West End neighborhood. Details on the arboreal-inspir

OMA   Norra Tornen, the residential towers in Stockholm, designed by OMA / Reinier de Graaf, has been announced the winner of the ninth edition of the International Highrise Award (IHA)...

Seattle will be crowning downtown with a 361-meter tower containing 1,080 residential units in the higher floors and coworking and retail spaces in the lower levels. Assigned to ODA, the New York architecture firm headed by Eran Chen, the project bea

The firm founded in London by the late Zaha Hadid and now headed by Patrik Schumacher has in the skyscraper district of Dubai just completed Hotel Opus ME, one of those buildings whose hollows perhaps cost more than their solid parts. Contorted to th

The first building of Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron in Toronto – to be caried out in collaboration with the local firm Quadrangle – will also, when completed, be the city’s tallest, and perhaps the first Canadian sequel of the ‘supertall’ fever

It was to highlight the eroded footprint of a 12th-century castle that the Catalan architect Carles Enrich set about restoring the Merola Tower in Puigreig, a municipality of Barcelona province. The project was urgent, following the 2016 collapse of

The beauty of the twin high-rises at Madrid’s Plaza de Colón, a 1968 iconic work of the architect Antonio Lamela, lies less in their appearance than in the extraordinary hanging structure that the civil engineer Javier Manterola calculated, and which

New York Post   Steve Cuozzo   Get ready for Two World Trade Center, Version 3.0. Larry Silverstein and architect Norman Foster are working on major changes to Foster’s original vision for the still-unbuilt skyscraper, the developer tells The Post. Foster’s old design was scrapped

The death of the Iraqi-British architect Zaha Hadid three years ago, in 2016, did not bring an end to her thriving firm, as many said it would. On the contrary, it stayed on board a vigorous internationalization phase that has seen the construction o

A proposal by the British architect David Chipperfield has won for him the competition to erect a high-rise replacing a building at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 53rd Street in New York City, a site that has been the US headquarters of the Swiss lux

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