towers

OMA’s prefabricated concrete tower has “echoes of brutalist architecture”

November 12, 2018 India Block 0

Innovationen Tower, a 125-metre high tower formed of stacked precast concrete modules, has completed as part of an OMA-designed housing development in Stockholm. Reinier de Graaf led the design for the apartment building, which he said represents a new era for prefabricated housing. “The Norra Tornen project represents a milestone achievement for us,” said De Graaf, partner at

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CF Møller’s Maersk Tower is “sculptural linchpin” on the Copenhagen skyline

October 27, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

Vertical perforated-metal louvres wrap around the curved facades of this tower designed by CF Møller Architects for the University of Copenhagen. The Scandinavian firm designed the Maersk Tower as a state-of-the-art research facility and an extension of Panum – the university’s Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences. The 15-storey building contains both research and teaching

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Promontorio’s brick-clad Lubango Center rises above an Angolan town square

October 13, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

Brown brick facades of Promontorio’s tower in the Angolan town of Lubango recall the tones of traditional African rammed-earth buildings. The international architecture firm, which was founded in Lisbon in 1990, was tasked with designing the Lubango Center for a prominent site next to the main square of the capital of Angola’s Huila district. The nine-storey, mixed use

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Lahdelma & Mahlamäki Architects plans cluster of triangular smart skyscrapers for Helsinki

October 12, 2018 India Block 0

Triangle-shaped towers fitted with smart technology form the centre of Lahdelma & Mahlamäki Architects competition-winning masterplan for Helsinki. The local architecture firm’s development was chosen as the winning entry in the contest to execute a phased development of high-density mixed-use towers in Helsinki’s Pasila district, north of the city centre. Named Trigoni for the three-sided plans of

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OMA completes two towers at Park Grove complex in Miami

October 4, 2018 Bridget Cogley 0

Dutch firm OMA has completed two of its three residential towers in Miami’s Coconut Grove, both punctured with hundreds of covered terraces around the exteriors. The studio has reached a major milestone in its Park Grove project – a luxury residential complex in the neighbourhood 10 minutes drive south from Downtown Miami. Two of the site’s

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Foster + Partners breaks ground on Shanghai skyscraper

September 25, 2018 India Block 0

Work has begun on a 200-metre-high office tower designed by Foster + Partners in Shanghai, as part of a regeneration programme in the east of the city. The 42-storey tower is being built for property development company China Resources Land in the Shanghai’s Suhewan district. It will be the first office tower in this primarily

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Montreal Tower to become glazed offices for Desjardins Group

September 20, 2018 Bridget Cogley 0

The iconic angled tower of Montreal’s Olympic Stadium is being converted into offices by local firm Provencher Roy. Provencher Roy is overhauling the Montreal Tower for AccèsD, the online payment platform of the Desjardins Group – a leading cooperative financial group in Canada. The iconic structure forms part of the stadium designed by French architect

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Foster + Partners’ Budapest tower will be built despite city’s new skyscraper ban

August 20, 2018 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Budapest is to introduce a ban on all buildings over 90 metres, but this will not impact Foster + Partners’ plan to build a 120-metre-tall tower, which has already won planning permission. The Hungarian government is introducing a skyscraper ban in order to preserve the skyline of Budapest, said Gergely Gulyás, minister of the prime minister’s

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Pleated facades cover pair of Shenzhen skyscrapers by BIG

August 8, 2018 India Block 0

BIG has completed a pair of towers with rippling and folded facades to house the offices of a state-owned energy company in Shenzhen. The Shenzhen Energy Mansion development is formed of two towers, one 220 metres high and one measuring 110 metres, linked by a 34-metre-tall podium at the base. Curving louvres along the facade

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Zaha Hadid Architects reveals plans for Maltese skyscraper

August 6, 2018 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Zaha Hadid Architects has revealed images of a 31-storey tower, planned for Paceville on the northern coast of Malta. Named Mercury Tower, the building would be eight storeys higher than the nearby 23-floor Portomaso Business Tower – currently the tallest building on the Mediterranean island. The 24,500 square metre tower was designed by the late Zaha Hadid and Patrik Schumacher,

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