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October 31, London
Skanska to Develop $498M London Skyscraper
Another tower will soon be gracing London's skyline. Skanska has been awarded a $498 million contract to build Heron Tower, a 46-story building at 110 Bishopsgate. Skanska will begin the tower early next year, with an anticipated completion of early 2011. When finished, it will be one of the tallest buildings in London at 794 feet tall...More |
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October 31, San Francisco
Are high-rises green?
High-rises are popping up fast in San Francisco, altering the skyline from one month to the next. But are these giants environmentally friendly? Do they make San Francisco more green or less? One of the major advantages of using tall buildings in city design is the potential to reduce suburban sprawl...More
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October 29, Dubai
Lighthouse Shines On Dubais Green Future
Preliminary designs are being drawn up for a new super eco friendly skyscraper to sit in the heart of Dubai's emerging International Financial Centre. The project named the Lighthouse will be a 400m tall 66 storey distinctively shaped beacon on Dubai's ever increasing skyline...More
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October 29, Crain's Chicago Business Magazine, pp.34 - 35
Form, Function and Finances
David Scott, CTBUH Chairman, discusses what's driving all the unusual shapes and textures in skyscraper design, the boom in high-rise construction in the Middle East and how security concerns have influenced tall buildings...read more
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October 29, Crain's Chicago Business Magazine, pp.28 - 29
The Future is Looking Up: Designs by Tomorrow's Architects
Antony Wood, CTBUH Executive Director and Philip Oldfield, CTBUH Research Coordinator present several student design proposals that aim to challenge the typical glazed tall building...read more
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October 25, Dubai
The Cayan Developed Infinity Tower wins “Best High Rise Architecture”
Infinity Tower has won the 2007 CNBC Arabian Property Award for “Best High Rise Architecture in the Middle East”. It was announced today that the iconic twisting tower being built for Cayan Investment & Development has also been nominated for “Best High Rise Architecture” in the prestigious International Property Awards in Las Vegas....More
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October 25, Dubai
ACEROs Dubai Tower Win
Architects, A-CERO, has been announced as the winners of a design competition for development of a new mixed use complex in Dubai. Called Nebula, the commercial/residential complex is comprised of seven towers all differing in height, the main body of which is made up with the three tallest towers interlinked at ground level...More
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October 24, San Francisco
Solomon Cordwell Buenz transforms the San Francisco Skyline
Standing atop one of San Francisco’s most visible hills, One Rincon Hill serves as a pioneer in architectural and structural design and is one of the buildings transforming the San Francisco skyline. Built above the 100-foot Rincon Hill, One Rincon Hill includes two structurally unique towers offering 695 condominiums and 14 townhouses...More
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October 23, New York
KPF Super Tall To Partner Empire State Building
Property developers Sherwood Equities have put forward proposals for a new tower in New York City. Located in Hudson Yards in Manhattans' far west side, the plan is for a 35 storey exclusively residential tower to be located on 10th Avenue as well as a 60 + storey tower for use as either a 2,500 roomed hotel or a 2.5 million square foot office complex...More |
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Octover 22, Marseille
Zaha Tower Flows Into Marseille
What is the tallest Zaha Hadid design to ever be built is starting to take form in the French city of Marseille. Done in association with Ove Arup as the structural engineers, the project has been designed as the head office of the local shipping firm CMA CGN and located in the main business area of the city, Euromediterranée District...More
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October 22, Singapore
City in a garden
Foster + Partners have won an international competition to design a highly sustainable mixed use scheme for Beach Road in Singapore. Occupying an entire city block between the Marina Center and the Civic District, the scheme will create a 150,000 square meter eco-quarter in downtown Singapore...More
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October 18, Moscow
Eurasia Rises In The East
Another new skyscraper for Moscow's burgeoning skyline, Eurasia, is starting to grow above the ground. Located a little way from the Kremlin, the Eurasia Tower in the Moscow International Business centre will stand at a full height of 299.05 metres to roof but when counting the tip of the façade overrun it gets pushed further to 303 metres...More |
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October 18, Mumbai
Perkins + Will Debunks Antilia Myths
Construction is underway, albeit with some delays, on one of India’s highest profile and most opulent projects—the Antilia, a 490-foot-tall corporate meeting facility and private residence in Mumbai. Chicago-based Perkins + Will designed the 24-story tower for business tycoon Mukesh Ambani, whose family will occupy roughly 35,000 square feet in its top floors...More
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October 18, Moscow
Halvorson and Partners Celebrate Ground Breaking on Russia Tower
Halvorson and Partners, structural engineer, in collaboration with London-based Foster and Partners and the STT Group of Moscow, celebrated the ground breaking for the Russia Tower in Moscow on September 18, 2007. Expected to be Europe’s tallest building when completed in 2012, this Supertall Structure will redefine the Moscow skyline...More
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October 17, Dalian
Chinese Citys Dalliance With Super Tall
Yet another super tall project in China, this time in the city of Dalian, has started, almost without any fanfare. Dalian is a city few readers outside of China and Korea will have heard of. Despite this it has a population of about three million that has been a development zone since 1984 and is one of the main centres for China's north-east region...More
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October 16, Ajman
HOK creates "jewel in the crown" for Ajman
Ajman is a small island enclave and the smallest state in the United Arab Emirates; the newest location for an inspirational HOK masterplan, a design for the regeneration of a marina and to become the ‘jewel in the crown’ of Ajman. Ajman Marina is a 26 hectare masterplanning and architecture project located on the historic waterfront, 20 km from Dubai...More
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October 10
Tsunami machine creates monster waves
Three years after a series of tsunamis killed more than 200,000 people and devastated hundreds of communities bordering the Indian Ocean, a team of engineers has figured out how to re-create smaller versions of the killer waves in a lab...More
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October 10, The Big Project, pp.36 - 39
Tall Building Boom
Antony Wood discusses the current boom in tall building construction and examines the challenges the typology faces in the future...read more
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October 9, Stockholm
Architect proposes Stockholm skyscraper
With an architecture firm outlining plans for a new skyscraper in Stockholm city centre, the scene is set for renewed debate about the future appearance of the Swedish capital. Designed by RB Arkitektur, Kungsbroskrapan (Kungsbro Skyscraper) is a proposed 30-storey building containing offices and apartments...More
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October 8, London
The Broadway Leaf In Detail
The Broadway Leaf isn't a nickname given to a proposal by the press, it's a real name penned by those working on the Foster and Partners penned project that is actually apt enough to stick thanks to the striking appearance of the tower which makes it deserve a detailed look...More
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October 7, San Francisco
How high and how safe?
Within yards of the Bay Bridge entry point into San Francisco looms the 60- story Rincon apartment tower. It's the first of a wave of ultra-tall high-rises expected to remake the city landscape, spreading sky-high offices southward from downtown and luring thousands of residents to new condo spires along a largely empty waterfront...More
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October 4
DAMAC Set New Development Record
DAMAC Properties launched their 79th tower in five years on Monday making them the busiest privately owned tower developer in the world. Their core markets in the middle east of the United Arab Emirates and in particular Dubai, Qatar, Jordan, Lebanon and Saudi Arabia have gone through a property boom over the last five years that shows no sign of stopping...More |
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October 4, Birmingham
V Building gets the go-ahead
Described as bold elegant and stunning – computer-generated images of Birmingham's 50-storey V Building almost left city councillors speechless today. Although it has taken more than seven years to bring the £500 million Arena Central development to the point where construction work can begin...More |
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