Friday, August 9, 2013
Aedas Wins Competition for Xuhui Binjan Media City 188S-G-1 Tower in Shanghai
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Sunday, June 23, 2013
OMA's design proposes the introduction of a "rough skin" formed through a striking, alternating pattern of protruding living spaces and introverted outdoor spaces...
OMA's design challenges the expected uniformity and homogenous façade treatment that is often assigned to tower structures. Instead, it extends the skin to expose the individuality of the separate living units in the two blocks - a true vertical, urban agglomeration..." to find out more...
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Thursday, June 20, 2013
Monday, April 29, 2013
The exterior of the retail podiums and the towers are continuous façades, with no edges, creating an inviting, friendly urban space for both visitors and inhabitants. The podium and tower interiors employ glass and aluminum panels in naturally producing a sense of vertical alignment to reflect the architecture’s narrow straightness. The lightly colored buildings surround a vibrant orange building, creating a strong visual centerpiece..." to find out more...
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Monday, March 18, 2013
"eVolo Magazine is pleased to announce the winners of the 2013 Skyscraper Competition...
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
" New York firm Steven Holl Architects has completed the Sliced Porosity Block, a cluster of five towers around a public plaza in Chengdu, China...
The buildings, designed by Steven Holl in 2007, were conceived as an alternative to the "towers and podium" approach commonly adopted for large mixed-use developments. Instead, the five towers were imagined as an integrated complex, with a central public space that wraps up over a shopping centre...
Light passes between the buildings through "sliced" openings and recesses, plus three large voids provide entrance pavilions that lead inside the complex..." to find out more...
Images & passage via Dezeen
Monday, February 25, 2013
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Monday, May 28, 2012
The Yongsan International Business District will set a new standard for an integrated global city. Situated on a high-profile site in the western side of the district, plot R5 houses a signature topend residential building, 320m in height, which will attract the most exclusive clientele from both Korea as well as the rest of the world. These Pentominium units will provide unsurpassed urban living experiences, with spatial and privacy features normally associated with individual houses.
Monday, May 21, 2012
" Skyscrapers in Seoul: New York firm REX was another of the seventeen architects commissioned to design skyscrapers for the fast-growing Yongsan International Business District of Seoul, South Korea. They’ve proposed a tower that looks like like a filing cabinet with its drawers open...
series of compact apartments will overlook this courtyard from within the tower’s upper storeys, while shops will surround it on the lower levels..." to find out more...
images by Luxigon and passage by Dezeen
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
"Copenhagen darlings BIG have unveiled their design for the 490-foot-tall Beach and Howe tower in Vancouver, a collaboration with Westbank, Dialog, Cobalt, PFS, Buro Happold, Glotman Simpson and local architect James Cheng. The new mixed-use tower marks the entry point to downtown Vancouver, forming a welcoming gateway to the city, while adding another unique structure to the city's skyline...
Sunday, April 1, 2012
On the top of the structure, a solid floor is laid atop the hanging cells to create a green rooftop expanse to be enjoyed by residents. The tall height of the garden and the prefab residential cells help protect them from the noise pollution of the city, and subtle structural design elements provide shading to units in the summer to protect them from the harsh sun..." to find out more...
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Wednesday, March 7, 2012
" eVolo Magazine is pleased to announce the winners of the 2012 Skyscraper Competition. Established in 2006, the annual Skyscraper Competition recognizes outstanding ideas that redefine skyscraper design through the use of new technologies, materials, programs, aesthetics, and spatial organizations, along with studies on globalization, flexibility, adaptability, and the digital revolution. 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 vertical community. The award seeks to discover young talent, whose ideas will change the way we understand architecture and its relationship with the natural and built environments..." to find out more...
Monday, February 20, 2012
"Beckett Tower provides high quality residential apartment accommodation situated within the academic precinct of Melbourne CBD. The apartments address the needs of professionals/academics with a desire to live and work in the city; while complimenting the level of eccentric design in this area of the city.
The autumnal screen facade acts primarily as a shading and privacy device to the apartments; however it also maintains a level of articulation which the precinct demands." to find out more...
Saturday, February 4, 2012
GDS Architects Win 2nd Phase of Cheongna City Tower Competition - the World’s First Invisible Tower?
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"After winning Phase 1 of the design competion for the supertall Cheongna City Tower (formerly known as Tower Infinity) in Incheon, South Korea (previously on Bustler), international practice GDS Architects has now also taken the Fist Prize in the invited competition (Phase 2) to do the project through design development...
Saturday, January 7, 2012
"Under rapid housing developments in the past years, Hong Kong has benefited much in terms of economy. However, important values such as value in sense of community and individual identity were lost. This thesis hereby critically reviews current and past housing projects in Hong Kong and stating the notion of verticality as the only solution. The ambition is a new alternative high-rise residential typology, in which its inhabitants are given unique units and allocations in accordance to specific zoning strategy within a tower structure, thus creating a phenomenal living experience through bonding and acquiring needs by each and every single individual. It is a re-interpretation of the balance between genericity and specificity aiming at formulating an extraordinary democratic living concept..." to find out more...
