Construction is underway on a 216-metre skinny skyscraper designed by Foster + Partners for a site next door to Mies van der Rohe's Seagram Building in New York., full_html
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610 Lexington Avenue by Foster + Partners. Image courtesy of Foster + Partners
"DC Tower 1" rises to 250 m. (220m + 30m antenna) has opened its doors to the public, on February, 2014. The 58-storey tower containing offices, apartments, a hotel and a top-floor sky bar rises above a public plaza in the Austrian capital's…
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DC Tower 1 by Dominique Perrault. Photograph © Michale Nag
The photographers of Hufton + Crow have shared their visual archive of Bjarke Ingels’ recently completed Danish Maritime Museum. , full_html
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Danish Maritime Museum by BIG. Photography © Hufton + Crow
ONE57 West 57th Street is a new skyscraper designed by Christian de Portzamparc (1994 Pritzker Prize Winner), and the Extell’s new flagship residential tower and hotel development. Slated to be the tallest residential property in Manhattan, this…
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Rendering. Night view from Central Park. ONE57 by Atelier Christian de Portzamparc
The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) 2013 Award Winners, organized in conjunction with the Illinois Institute of Technology, has announced the winner of its Best Tall Building Worldwide: CCTV Headquarters, Beijing, China. As part…
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CCTV by OMA. Photograph © Image courtesy of OMA
The new headquarters for the Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SZSE) has been completed in Shenzhen's Central Business District. The 180,000 m2 building is OMA's next completed building in China after the CCTV Headquarters in Beijing., full_html
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Exterior evening view of SZSE by OMA. Photography © Philippe Ruault
The icons of the New York skyline will soon have a new companion. Located on Park Avenue between 56th and 57th Streets, 432 Park Avenue will be the tallest residential tower in the western hemisphere upon its completion in 2015. , full_html
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Renderings of 432 Park Avenue. Rafael Viñoly
The architect Frank Gehry, born and raised in Toronto, originally announced last October to much fanfare, the Mirvish+Gehry Toronto a mammoth development proposal, model of his design for a gallery and university complex in Toronto, showing angular…
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Recent conceptual model, image by Gehry Partners courtesy of Projectcore
Google Maps has just announced that they are going to present a new application which allow us to enter in several buildings using Street View. A step more to travel around the world with your computer., full_html
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Burj Khalifa, video screenshot. Google Street View
Dutch office OMA, directed by Rem Koolhaas, has won a competition to design two skyscrapers in Stockholm, Sweden, with a proposal featuring cubes overlaid. The 100m high towers will be develop by Oscar Properties and will be the third tallest twin…
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OMA and Oscar Properties win Tors Torn competition. Overview.Image © OMA - bloomimages.