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Elegant Simplicity

(Issue of a magazine 4/2015, page 58)

Recently was completed the construction of the Jiangxi Nanchang Greenland Zifeng Tower, designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM) and located in the Gaoxin District of Nanchang. The building was voted this year’s “favorite completed high-rise building” by the nationwide technical staff of the Greenland Group, the building’s owner and China’s leading development company. The elegant simplicity of the 268-meter, 56 story tower contributed to the “favorite building” recognition in voting by hundreds of Greenland staff prior to the state-owned company’s annual leadership meeting, according to the design team at SOM Chicago.

Overlooking the Mount Fuji

(Issue of a magazine 4/2015, page 62)

In European cities, train stations, as a rule, are the centers of long-distance transport with surrounding transit terminals. Station platforms and passenger loading premises, as a rule, are fairly large areas, where passengers can spend a lot of time. At the stations in Tokyo, such complexes are transportation and transfer hubs for intercity transport. People use these infrastructure facilities every day on the way to work, school, etc. Naturally, the transfer from one line or transport mode to another need to waste a minimum of time, so the smooth operation of transit systems is very important.

Philosophy of the Cloud

(Issue of a magazine 4/2015, page 68)

In the framework of exhibition “Shelter: Rethinking How We Live in Los Angeles,” held last autumn at the A+D Museum, MAD proposed the Cloud Corridor project as a future concept for residential design in Los Angeles. Cloud Corridor embodies Ma Yansong’s “Shanshui City” philosophy for architecture, referring in the urban architecture the principles of traditional Chinese landscape painting style, which involves scenery or natural landscapes, representing a combination of mountains and bodies of water - the sacred elements, symbolizing the synergy of contrary masculine and feminine forces of Yin-Yang to manifest the spiritual essence between people and nature.

Constructional LEGO

(Issue of a magazine 4/2015, page 72)

Project Living framework, designed by the architectural firm AKKA Architects for one of Bombay slum districts vividly demonstrates for the construction is not always necessary to have a free plot of land: a high-rise building can be implanted above existing urban fabrics. Erected above existing slums, Living frame|work is a three-dimensional ‘scaffolding structure’, where containers are plugged in with a crane. It deploys itself above the urban fabric and keeps the ground floor free. It is replicable and transferable to other cities around the world. Rising like a tree looking for air and sunlight, Living framework is a solution for the rapid urbanization of highly dense populated areas.

From Child’s Dream to Reality

(Issue of a magazine 4/2015, page 86)

For the past few decades in the world occurs some kind of skyscrapers competition. Where will rise another the tallest tower? The competition that has always existed between towers: constantly striving to be taller, more unique, give more panoramic views from the top, and nowadays, be more environmentally friendly. In Jean-Paul Viguier’s imagination, towers bring back childhood emotions. The scale to which humans define themselves today changed - it’s the Gulliver effect. At the end of the 1980s, the Grande Arche clearly placed La Defense in line with historical axis of Le Notre, which starts at the Tuileries garden.

Interview with Keith Griffiths

(Issue of a magazine 3/2015)

Below we represent the TB magazine interview with our first guest - Keith Griffiths, the founder of AEDAS, one of the largest architectural firms in the world, who has kindly agreed to answer the questions of our edition.

Paris 2050. The Celebration of Ecology

(Issue of a magazine 3/2015, page 28)

The end. The beginning see: TB 2/2015, p. 32-37

The Chieftain of Wurundjeri

(Issue of a magazine 3/2015, page 34)

Every high-rise building is in some way unique. The skyscraper built in the Australian city of Melbourne, designed by architectural bureau ARM Architecture, attracts special attention resulting of the singular creative solution of its facade. On the tower facade is reproduced a wholescale portrait of William Barak - the last traditional ngurungaeta (elder) of the Wurundjeri-willam clan, who lived on the territory of modern Melbourne for thousands of years before the arrival of Europeans in these places.

Serentinous Lift

(Issue of a magazine 3/2015, page 36)

PLP Architecture has completed a Technical Demonstration project for Tyréns, one of Sweden’s leading structural engineering and urban planning consultancies and their research group responsible for the development of the Advanced Funiculator, an innovative concept that will redefine vertical transportation for ultratall buildings.

Sailboat Sailing in the Future

(Issue of a magazine 3/2015, page 38)

Often the governing factor in the success of architectural design is its well thought referencing to the site locality. The building should be blended in with the surrounding landscape - this is not a secret. But some architects go further, not only taking into account the georeferencing of a given building, but also in an interesting way playing with the place history, and at the same time attempting to look into the future.