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Design: WilkinsonEyre – new tower building at 6-8 Bishopsgate and 150 Leadenhall submitted for planning. The proposed 40-storey office-led, mixed-use tower will have a public viewing gallery at level 40.
Architect: Daniel Libeskind. Europe’s Tallest Residential Tower opens, a soaring 52 storey (192 m / 629 ft) tower taking ten years to complete, The arched façade rises to an apex creating a multi-level penthouse.
A ‘City for All’ – UNStudio announced as the unanimous winner of the architectural competition for the former Deutsche Bank site in Frankfurt.
Dubai skyscrapers designs, UAE towers up to 2012 – new high-rise developments in the Middle East – Dubai skyscraper building designs, UAE high-rise property: tall Middle East architecture.
Kuwait skyscraper architecture photos – more tall building images from around this city including pictures of the key skyscraper buildings: Gulf high-rise architecture
The 6-storey building has a sleek form that billows out. The curtain wall facade is peppered with primary coloured panels. Also known as the United Tower it was designed by KEO International Consultants with KPF.
Numerous improvements revealed for Chicago’s tallest building. Totaling up to $500 m the renovations will include six floors of new retail space, an outdoor deck and a winter garden. The tower was once the world’s tallest building for 25 years.
The fifth tallest building in Kuwait City (wikipedia states fourth but Crystal Tower is missing) at time of writing, February 2017. This building is also known as the Kuwait Trade Center.
Instead of building a 1,000 foot-tall spire, Silverstein Properties is exploring a plan to build two towers in separate phases at 514 Eleventh Avenue, a former Mercedes-Benz car dealership purchased in 2015
The building of a development, Varso Towers, comprising three buildings including an office tower designed by Foster + Partners, has begun with completion expected for 2020
CTBUH Awards annual review of tall building construction trends – with 128 buildings of 200 meters’ height or greater completed around the world – setting a new record for annual tall building completions.
Architect: Aedas. This building reflects the traditional Chinese totem of bamboo, rejuvenating the old town of Shenzhen. This 200-m super high-rise will house the headquarters for Tellus-Gmond, lettable office spaces and a jewellery trading centre.
Architects Elenberg Fraser claim the building design is inspired by the music video of ‘Ghost’ by Beyoncé. The twisting architecture is created entirely by parametric modelling, its spiralling curves recall the “twists and turns of a woman dancing in black cloth”.
Design: gmp · von Gerkan, Marg and Partners. IT industrial operation center with adjacent high-rise office block in Guangzhou for one of the leading Chinese telecommunications companies: two high-rise buildings linked by a five-story plinth.
In the 125 years since William Le Baron Jenney’s ten-storey Home Insurance Building in Chicago became the world’s first skyscraper, the spectacle of soaring towers has become increasingly common wherever land is scarce, allowing cities to stack life ever taller, denser and more dynamic.
Design: Oppenheim Architecture + Design. COR, the first sustainable, mixed-use condominium in Miami, Florida represents a dynamic synergy between architecture, structural engineering and ecology.
Design by Herzog & de Meuron architects. Paris pyramid building receives approval by the city’s cross-party council which approved a protocol agreement for its construction in the south-west of the city