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Category: Architecture, Residential, Selected Tags: Glass, Mexico, Migdal Arquitectos, Skyscrapers
Mexico city-based architectural firm Migdal Arquitectos has completed the Plaza Residences. The shape of the building gives richness and movement to the urban context. Plaza Residences becomes a sculpturesque object that acts as a showcase that defines the Monument to Columbus on one of the most sightly corners of Avenida Reforma. Migdal Arquitectos + Project [...]
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Category: Architecture, Residential Tags: Architecture Award, BIG, Competition, Courtyard architecture, Iconic architecture, New York, Skyscrapers, USA, USA architecture, Waterfront architecture
Durst Fetner Residential selects BIG to design 600-unit residential building on W57th Steet in Manhattan, New York. The building is conceived as a cross breed between the Copenhagen courtyard and the New York skyscraper. The communal intimacy of the central urban oasis meets the efficiency, density and panoramic views of the tall tower in a [...]
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Category: Architecture, Mixed Use, Residential, Selected Tags: Iconic architecture, Korea, Mass Studies, Penthouse, Skyscrapers, White
In Seoul, Korea, S-Trenue: Bundle Matrix was developed from the L-shaped podium tower by Mass Studies. Externally the tower is expressed by three slim vertical forms, composed of the central core, and two sides of unit towers, it continues extended to the podium and forms an “L” that as one element. With the core tower [...]
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Category: Architecture, Office Tags: Architecture Award, C. F. Møller Architects, Competition, Copenhagen, Denmark, Iconic architecture, Random pattern, Skyscrapers, SLA, Stair
The Science tower and urban park in the heart of Copenhagen is the winning proposal for the extension of the University of Copenhagen’s Panum complex designed by C. F. Møller Architects, in co-operation with Rambøll (Engineer) and SLA (Landscape), and together with the following consultants: aggebo&henriksen, Cenergia, Gordon Farquharson and Innova-tion Lab. The expansion will [...]
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Category: Architecture Tags: Architecture Award, Competition, DSBA, Iconic architecture, Skyscrapers, Taiwan, upgradestudio
“FLOATING OBSERVATORIES” Proposal by Dorin STEFAN’s DSBA, Mihai CARCIUN and upgrade.studio wins the “Taiwan Tower” Conceptual International Competition. Starting from the ‘geographical’ visual of Taiwan – which is an island resembling a leaf – we have developed the concept of the technological tree: we have designed 8 spatial leaves (with eight being a propitious number [...]
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Category: Architecture, Office, Selected Tags: Courtyard architecture, Glass, Green architecture, Hoz Fontan, Random pattern, Skyscrapers, Spain
Spanish architectural firm Hoz Fontan Arquitectos recently has completed the Zaisa Office Tower in Irun, Spain. Located close to the border between Spain and France, the new office tower is the last building of the Zaisa transportation hub in Irun, and houses Zaisa’s headquarters and rental office space. The tower is inserted in front of [...]
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Category: Architecture Tags: Architecture Award, Competition, OODA, OOIIO Architecture, Skyscrapers, Taiwan
Portuguese-based architectural design office OODA & OOIIO win Merit Award in Taiwan Conceptual Tower International Competition. The competition intention was to create a pioneering and innovative design concept which will stand as a new-age landmark and a symbolic voice to the world of Taiwan’s new spirit. The Tower was planned to be at least 300-meter [...]
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Category: Architecture, Hotel Tags: 3XN, Construction, Denmark, Iconic architecture, Random pattern, Skyscrapers, White
Right now the construction of the Bella Sky hotel in Copenhagen is the largest building site in Denmark. In only 6 months Bella Sky will open as one of Scandinavia’s largest and most spectacular hotels Visually the hotel will be characterized by the two leaning towers, creating a spectacular and unspoiled view over the green [...]
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Category: Architecture, Office Tags: Fluid form, OneByNine, Poland, Skyscrapers
Poland-based firm OneByNine studio recently has designed the Swietokrzyska Tower located in the center of Warsaw, Poland, next to the main street in the city. The shape of a building are created by two simple twisted blocks. The shape is adjusted to the sun movement. OneByNine tried to minimize southern facade which is most exposed [...]
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Category: Architecture, Office, Selected Tags: Color architecture, ESD design, Netherlands, Random pattern, Skyscrapers, UNStudio, White
Dutch architectural practice UNStudio‘s UNStudio Office Tower in South Axis business area Amsterdam, has been recently realised. The façade of the UNStudio Tower plays with the juxtaposition of a horizontal and vertical articulation, conceptually relating to the principles upon which the moiré effect is based. In the design for the tower it was important for [...]
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Category: Architecture, Residential, Selected Tags: Green architecture, Lebanon, Nabil Gholam, Skyscrapers, White
Skygate is the Residential project designed by Lebanon-based architectural practice Nabil Gholam architects. The seducing aspect of Beirut’s juxtaposing architecture, of past and present, traditional and modern creativity sets the milieu for the Skygate development. Located on a hilly promontory of Ashrafieh, Skygate provocatively completes what appears as an urban wall rising in this central [...]
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Category: Architecture, Office, Selected Tags: Construction, France, Glass, Iconic architecture, Skyscrapers, Zaha Hadid
In the French city of Marseille, a new 142.8 metre tower, which is the headquarters of container shipping giant, CMA-CGM is now nearly completed. The building was designed by Zaha Hadid architects in 2004, the project intended to provide a vertical iconic building and to act as a gateway to the city from both land [...]
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