Zoomlion is one of China’s leading manufacturers of construction machinery equipment and is ranked top 10 globally in the construction machinery industry. Amphibian Arc was invited to design its new headquarters located in Changsha, China. So far is presented only initial draft, which still to be refined.
One more interesting and a discussion project is developed by Dutch design and architecture studio MVRDV for the famed by its design new Yongsan business district in the South Korean capital - Seoul. The two towers positioned at the entrance of the Yongsan Dreamhub project, a master plan designed by Studio Libeskind. The complex is named “The Cloud”.
In New York held a competition for the construction a new tower on the site of the existing 425 Park Avenue building of 1957, which is to be replaced with the modern sky scraper in Manhattan’s prestigious Plaza District. The winners of the contest held by L & L Holding Development Company were announced on October 19. The exhibit was run as part of the Municipal Art Society’s 2012 MAS Summit for New York City was held at NY Lincoln Center.
Rapidly developing Republic of China is facing serious environmental problems. If until recently, more attention was paid to the development of industries, often to the detriment of the natural environment, now there thinking about green cities construction.
In the nearest future Toronto skyline will be replenished with three new towers, which concept for a mixed-use project designed by famous architect Frank Gehry will transform Toronto’s downtown arts and entertainment at the King Street West providing the area’s future as a thriving cultural centre.
Originally designed for his home-town City of Mostar in Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, this concept is aimed at the world’s cities that aspire to be recognised for unique and iconic architectural forms.
The IX World Congress conducted by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH ) was held this time in Shanghai and the delegates could get to know the peculiarities of local high-rise construction.
Asymptote Architecture principals Hani Rashid and Lise Anne Couture has announced the launch of the Velo Towers, within the Dreamhub development in the Yongsan District of Seoul Korea.
Construction of this facility, reminiscent of the globe and named Technosphere, was scheduled to begin in Dubai back in 2009. However, on the website of the developer - architectural bureau James Law Cybertecture International, which creates ingenious designs in style, which the authors named as cybertecture - it is still listed as a “concept.”
Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is a southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, 137 kilometres (85 mi) north of the equator. Today, Singapore has a highly developed market- based economy, based historically on extended entrepot trade. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia’s Riau Islands by the Singapore Strait to its south. The country is highly urbanised with very little primary rainforest remaining, although more land is being created for development through land reclamation. Deficiency of territories forces its architecture to develope mostly up, remodeling and updating the existing skyline.
