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March 22, Shenyang
KPF Design Supertalls For Shenyang China
The Chinese city of Shenyang in the north east of the country is to get its nextsupertall project, two 300 metre tall towers plus a series of shorter buildings included in the same development at what is called Hang Lung Plaza...More
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March 22, Kfar Kassem
First residential tower to be built in Arab village
For the first time in Israel, a residential tower is set to be erected in an Arab village. The 30-story skyscraper will be built over the village of Kfar Kassem's gas station at a cost of $100 million. The developer behind the project, Israeli businessman Jamil Bin Jamil, is planning to involve Qatari partners in the venture...More
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March 21, Singapore
Singapore's floating towers
Far East Organization, Singapore’s largest private development company, has commissioned the Office for Metropolitan Architecture for OMA’s first architectural project in Singapore – a 36-storey residential high-rise. The Singapore tower is a design by OMA Partner Ole Scheeren. Unlike most architecture firms OMA is a collaborative office which works as a Partnership...More
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March 19, London
Rolfe Judd Pens Croydon Tower
Rolfe Judd has teamed up with Berkely Homes again, this time to design a new tower development in the London Borough of Croydon. Situated on Wellesley Square next to the Croydon West railway station, the project will be a 44 floor residential tower with ground floor retail making it the tallest all residential project yet for Croydon...More
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March 19, Hanoi
Hanoi considering 65-storey skyscraper
The Luxembourg-based company plans to set up the highest building in Hanoi, Hanoi City Complex, which will comprise offices, apartments, a shopping centre, supermarket, cinema, health care centre and car park. The complex is expected to be located at the corner of Lieu Giai and Dao Tan streets in Ba Dinh district in Hanoi...More
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March 19, New York
Bank of America's Bold Statement in Green
Times Square's claim to fame is its million-watt light show and sky-high electric billboards. As much as the New York City landmark is a celebration of capitalism, it's also a crackling, pulsing symbol of energy excess. But just a block away on the Avenue of the Americas, a new crystalline tower is rising that's turning heads...More
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March 15, Boston
Rudolph Building Gets Temporary Stay of Execution
Paul Rudolph’s Blue Cross/Blue Shield Building, labeled one of the most controversial structures in the U.S. when it opened in 1960, is making headlines again. The Boston Landmarks Commission voted earlier this week to delay the building’s demolition, which the owner is seeking so that it can construct an 80-story office tower...More |
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March 15, Dubai
Tallest Residential Tower For Dubai Marina
Dubai could soon be getting another world first, the tallest residential tower in the world. Called the Pentominium, the plan has been drawn up by British architects, Aedas, who have designed this 516 metre tall skyscraper. In the struggle to differentiate between ever grander projects there is partly a rush to height...More
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March 14, St. Petersburg
Russia: 'Horizontal' St. Petersburg Reaches For Controversial Heights
Its architects describe the proposed tower as an organic, baroque composition, inspired by celebrated city landmarks like the Peter and Paul Fortress, St. Isaac's Cathedral, and the free-flowing water of the Neva River. Residents of St. Petersburg, however, see it a little differently. They have dubbed it "the corn on the cob,"...More
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March 14, Birmingham
City's tallest skyscraper on show
The council is calling the 490ft (150m) V Building one of Birmingham's most ambitious development projects, making it the city's tallest tower. It will be built near Broad Street's entertainment district and contain 600 apartments, bars and an observatory...More
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March 10, Arab Gulf
Demand for high-rise wind data
With the construction boom in the Gulf has come a wave of building that features tall towers. Defined by their height and slenderness, skyscapers have an increased sensitivity to the actions of the wind, making it critical that architects and developers consult with wind engineers when developing such a structure...More
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March 9, London
CABE backs controversial Fenchurch Street development
The Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment has backed the proposed redevelopment plans for 20 Fenchurch Street in central London at a public inquiry this week. CABE believes that the building should be given consent, subject to conditions related to detailed design and public access...More
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March 2, Brisbane
High-rise shadows lauded
The man responsible for some of Brisbane's largest high-rises has argued people may actually be happy with the shadows they create and that there may even be a health benefit. Devine Ltd managing director David Devine – who yesterday announced plans for a high-rise hotel and apartment complex – said concerns over shadowing in cities had died away...More
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March, Hamburg
Concert Hall on Top of and Within Kaispeicher A
Classical music, 21st-century music and quality light music will all find their performance base here. The new Elbphilharmonie and the existing Laeisz Concert Hall will be united under the baton of a new director of music. Kaispeicher A, designed by Werner Kallmorgen, was built more than 40 years ago, between 1963 and 1966...More
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