The first 6 months of a year long project to film the construction of the Leadenhall Building in London, desing by by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners. , full_html
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Making The Leadenhall Building. By Paul Raftery and Dan Lowe. All images screenshot
Yesterday, developers had images of Zaha Hadid Architects' proposed 60-storey residential skyscraper named One Thousand Museum. The 215-metre-high tower will have a concrete "exoskeleton" structure and will be located on Biscayne Boulevard in…
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Dawn view on May 9, 2013. One Thousand Museum Skycraper by Zaha Hadid
Crowning the skyline of the emerging city of Zhenghou, the tower’s circular form, Zhengzhou Greenland Plaza by Skidmore Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM) has opened its doors to its office users. The…
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Exterior view. Photography © SOM | Si-ye Zhang
In 2007, Hines announced the selection of Paris-based architect Jean Nouvel as the designer for Hines’ new mixed-use building in midtown Manhattan, adjacent to The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). The first architectural drawings of the tower that…
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Renderings for Jean Nouvel's MoMA Tower
Lewis W. Hine a pioneer of social photography in Rotterdam with detailed overview of his work as photographer (1874 - 1940) from the collection of the George Eastman House. Including his famous photographs of the construction of the Empire State…
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Exhibition image at Netherlands Museum of Photography
There are only a few days left to the opening of the London 2012 Olympics and the pressure to perform certain openings is increasing. The new skyscraper, "the highest in Western Europe" with 310 m. height and pyramid-shaped, known as "The Sard" in…
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The Shard. By Renzo Piano. Photography courtesy of Sellar Property Group
A rival to the Empire State Building 20 blocks south, The Times’ Niccolai Ouroussoff called it “the most exhilarating addition to the skyline in a generation.” The plans conform to the City Council-required modifications: the reduced height of 1,050…
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“MoMA Tower” vs "Torre Verre". Ateliers Jean Nouvel
The articles on architectural criticism of The New York Times always are reading carefully, I remember how Herbert Muschamp in 2004 stated that the library by Rem Koolhaas was the best building in Seattle, or how in yesterday's article drew…
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The CCTV building in Beijing, the headquarters of China Central Television designed by Rem Koolhaas and Ole Scheeren, has a contorted form that frames an enormous void at its center. Photograph © Philippe Ruault
We've talked in the past of this brilliant project, now in detail: the Torre Diagonal Zero Zero, new corporate headquarters of Telefonica in Catalonia, a project by study EMBA, led by the architect Enric Massip-Bosch., full_html
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Torre Telefónica Diagonal Zero Zero. Aerial photo. EMBA. © mylapse
Rockefeller Center and RCA Building from 515 Madison Avenue. Digital image recovered from released emulsion layer of the original 5x7 acetate negative. Photo by Samuel H. Gottscho., full_html
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Rockefeller Center and RCA Building