Tag Skyscraper

18-06-2021

The carbon-absorbing vertical forest by Vincent Callebaut

Vincent Callebaut’s vertical forest in Taipei is an anti-global warming ecosystem

07-06-2021

Büro Ole Scheeren’s DUO in Singapore, a sustainable tower awarded the CTBUH Award

The DUO complex in Singapore, designed by Büro Ole Scheeren, has been presented with the Council of Tall Buildings’ Urban Habitat Award 2021 in the Single Site category. Every year, the prestigious award is given in recognition of a vertical urban habitat that fits well into its environmental and cultural surroundings, where public space is an important element of the project itself.

31-05-2021

Vancouver House designed by BIG studio named Best Tall Building Worldwide 2021

On the occasion of the 2021 Tall + Urban Innovation conference organised by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH), the winners of the 18th edition of the CTBUH Awards were announced. The jury selected the winners of the 29 categories into which the rich programme of prizes is divided, as well as naming the overall winner. For the 2021 edition of the prestigious Awards, the Best Tall Building Worldwide is the Vancouver House: a residential skyscraper designed in the Canadian city with the same name by the BIG studio, founded by Danish architect Bjarke Ingels.

18-05-2021

Königsberger Vannucchi Arquitetura MN15 Ibirapuera San Paolo

MN15 Ibirapuera is a residential skyscraper recently designed and completed by the studio of architects Gianfranco Vannucchi and Jorge Königsberger and named after nearby Ibirapuera park, one of the biggest public parks in San Paolo, Brazil, which played an important role in the design of the development.

13-05-2021

Farewell to Helmut Jahn

German architect Helmut Jahn was killed in a car accident on May 8 in Campton Hills, 100 km from Chicago, the city where he had studied and lived since the late sixties and which his architecture helped transform. Helmut Jahn designed projects all over the world; his better-known, most iconic constructions include the Sony Centre on Berlin’s Postdamer Platz and the Frankfurt Messeturm in Germany, One Liberty Place in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Suvarnabhumi International Airport in Bangkok, Thailand.

22-04-2021

Studio Marco Piva Tonino Lamborghini Towers Chengdu China

In Chengdu, in China’s southeastern Sichuan province, the Tonino Lamborghini Towers designed by Studio Marco Piva (SMP) for Chengdu Donghe Real Estate Co., Ltd. near completion. The complex includes hotel rooms and suites, common areas, luxury apartments, a retail area and a theatre. SMP came up with the design concept and, in collaboration with Donghe and JHM, conducted architectural study of the podium and the façades of the 180-metre-high towers.

21-04-2021

BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group designs O-Tower, Oppo Headquarters in Hangzhou

The BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group has designed an iconic new building in Hangzhou. The building is the new headquarters of OPPO’s R&D division, a leading Chinese smartphone manufacturer. The new building will symbolise the perfect balance between refined aesthetics and innovative technology characterising the company’s products and will become the gateway to the Future Sci-Tech City of Hangzhou, a district born from the collaboration between the local administration and the e-commerce giant Alibaba.

14-04-2021

Cro&Co Architecture Tour Trinity Paris La Défense

Tour Trinity is a major civil engineering project on an urban scale in the La Défense district in western Paris. For the first time in France, a 32-storey tower has been built over a void. But the tower is only apparently built over nothing; it actually rests on a concrete slab over a seven-lane highway. In addition to an undeniable urban landmark, the project takes on an important urban dimension due to the presence of this big slab adding 3500 square metres of public space, establishing links between neighbourhoods that had been divided. The project by Cro&Co Architecture offers a solution that truly improves users’ quality of life.

18-03-2021

CTBUH announces the finalists for the 10 Year Award

The "10 Year Award" is one of the most interesting awards presented at the Tall + Urban Innovation Conference, an annual event organised by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat. This year’s award will be assigned to skyscrapers built in 2010 and 2011, now ten years old, in order to determine their actual impact on other, similar constructions and how they have withstood the test of time. The list of finalists for the 2021 award naturally includes the Burj Khalifa in Dubai and Marina Bay Sands in Singapore, two authentic icons of contemporary architecture.