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Taipei Twin Towers by MVRDV will be “a Times Square for Taiwan”

January 10, 2019 Lizzie Crook 0
Taipei Twin Towers proposal by MVRDV

MVRDV has unveiled designs for a pair of towers in Taipei, Taiwan, which will be made from stacks of misaligned blocks wrapped in interactive screens. Named Taipei Twin Towers, the 337 and 280-metres-tall skyscrapers have been designed by MVRDV in collaboration with CHY Architecture Urban Landscape to revitalise the central station area in the capital’s Zhongzheng district. The buildings

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KPF unveils scrolling supertall Tel Aviv skyscraper that will be Israel’s tallest building

January 4, 2019 India Block 0
Azieli Tower by KPF

Kohn Pedersen Fox has designed the Azrieli Tower, a 340-metre-high supertall skyscraper for Tel Aviv that will be the tallest building in Israel. Shaped like an unfurling scroll, the tower will have a spiralling glass facade that narrows in stages towards the pinnacle. At the top of the supertall skyscraper a viewing area will be

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Belvedere Tower is a top-heavy cross-shaped Dutch apartment block

December 23, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0
Belvedere tower in the Netherlands by René van Zuuk Architekten

Dutch architect René van Zuuk has completed an apartment building in the town of Hilversum featuring a cross-shaped plan that expands as it rises to accommodate more living units on the upper storeys. The Belvedere Tower is surrounded by four-storey postwar apartment blocks and is positioned at the end of a cluster of 1980s modernist

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Frank Gehry’s aluminium-clad Luma Arles tower takes shape in France

November 21, 2018 India Block 0

A twisting tower clad in reflective aluminium tiles, designed by architect Frank Gehry, is taking form in the south of France. Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry, who was awarded the Prizker Prize in 1989, designed the tower for the Luma Arles complex, an arts centre established by Swiss collector Maja Hoffmann. The tower’s opening date has been

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MVRDV’s Radio Tower & Hotel for New York constitutes colourful Lego-like blocks

November 15, 2018 Eleanor Gibson 0

Dutch firm MVRDV has broken ground on its first project in the US: a mixed-use “vertical village” made up of yellow, blue, red and green brickwork volumes. Construction work has started on the 21,800-square-metre tower at 2420 Amsterdam Avenue, in the Washington Heights neighbourhood towards the northern tip of Manhattan. Designed for local developer YoungWoo

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