Tag Skyscraper

18-03-2020

Farewell to Henry Cobb, architect who designed the John Hancock Tower in Boston

American architect Henry Cobb died on March 2 at the age of 93, just under one year after the death of his longtime partner, I.M. Pei. Cobb was considered as one of the great architects of our time, with the John Hancock Tower in Boston being one of the most famous works he designed in his long career. In Italy, with his firm Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, he designed Palazzo Lombardia, seat of Lombardy’s regional government.

13-03-2020

Zaha Hadid Architects One Thousand Museum: a skyscraper with an exoskeleton in Miami

Hufton+Crow recently produced a beautiful photo feature illustrating Miami’s One Thousand Museum, one of the last projects Zaha Hadid designed before her death. The 62-storey skyscraper measures 216 m in height, with a concrete exoskeleton that frees the surfaces inside of structural elements.

06-01-2020

Welcome 2020. The top architectures of the last ten years

On the threshold of a new decade, what better occasion is there for looking around and rediscovering the most significant architectures of the last ten years, taking stock of the past and looking towards the future.

04-01-2019

A year of skyscrapers: the CTBUH annual report

China and Shenzhen in particular are the country and the city with the largest number of supertall buildings, defined as taller than 300 m. Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates’ 528 m tall CITIC Tower in Beijing is the tallest building of 2018 and the sixth tallest skyscraper in the world.

19-12-2018

UNStudio completes The Scotts Tower in Singapore

The Scotts Tower was recently completed in one of Singapore’s most important neighbourhoods, near Orchard Road. UNStudio’s skyscraper combines a vertical city containing a variety of residential solutions with businesses and green areas, all in a single building.

12-12-2018

CTBUH’s list of outstanding skyscrapers

The list of skyscrapers presented with an Award of Excellence, the first step in the CTBUH 2019 Awards presented to the world’s best tall buildings by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, have been announced.

11-12-2018

35XV a sequined skyscraper in Manhattan by FXCollaborative

The Manhattan skyscraper designed by FXCollaborative recalls a sparkling sequined dress. Letâ's discover one of the most important designs by the studio that is the focus of the sixth event in The Architects Series, the cultural event at the Iris Ceramica Groupâ's SpazioFMGperl'Architettura exhibition space.

30-11-2018

Air China Tower with aluminium cladding by AREP and IPPR

The Air China Tower is a simple building with a double skin of glass and micro-perforated aluminium, with a wing shape like the fuselage of a plane