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An Innovative Process for Tall Building Form Generation

(Issue of a magazine 4/2011, page 76)

This paper proposes a series of methods to develop concepts and options of tall building form to the architect and engineer when designing geometrically complex buildings during the schematic design phase. The proposed design process and the developed digital tools become an integral part of the design team approach for tall building design. It will establish not only the overall geometrical forms but also the specific building data for design evaluation and production of three-dimensional models.

Overlooking the Burj Khalifa

(Issue of a magazine 3/2011, page 42)

Built on a project of the renowned architect Andrew Bromberg, architectural firm Aedas, Business Center Boulevard Plaza awarded Cityscape Awards 2011 as Winner in Commercial, Office & Retail Project (Built) Category.

Under the Gull Wing

(Issue of a magazine 3/2011, page 46)

Recent decades marked by the search for new sources of energy. It is related to the depletion of natural resources, and hence their inflation and the desire to find the safest way of functioning of industrial civilization. The relevance of these searches has confirmed, in particular, by the accidents at the Chernobyl’s and the Fukushima NPPs entailing serious consequences for the environment.

Raffles City the Sixth

(Issue of a magazine 3/2011, page 50)

On the bank Qiantang River in 2014 will be set the sixth Raffles City, whose construction is already underway. Five complexes with the same name already exist, those in Singapore, Shanghai, Beijing, Chengdu and Bahrain. UNStudio’s mixed-use Raffles City development is located near the Qiantang River in Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang province, located 180 kilometres southwest of Shanghai. With a city population of 1.69 million, Hangzhou is one of the most renowned and prosperous cities in China and is well known for its beautiful natural scenery, particularly in the West Lake area.

Intermediate Finish

(Issue of a magazine 3/2011, page 64)

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat is pleased to announce the winners of its annual “Best Tall Building” awards for 2011. This year’s recipients of the Council’s two lifetime achievement awards were selected by the CTBUH Board of Trustees, under the leadership of Chairman Sang Dae Kim: Adrian Smith of Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture (Lynn S. Beedle Lifetime Achievement Award) and Dr. Akira Wada, Tokyo Institute of Technology (Fazlur Khan Lifetime Achievement Medal).

Arena – Transformer

(Issue of a magazine 3/2011, page 70)

Saitama Super Arena – one of the largest sports complexes in Japan for up to 37 thousand people. After the March earthquake, it became a haven for thousands of refugees, where they could get food, lodging and information.

 

House of Babel

(Issue of a magazine 3/2011, page 74)

Dream to reach out the God is rather common phenomenon throughout the history of mankind. Skyscraper as an architectural type, owes their origin to Manhattan, where the height of the building was growing up along with the cost of the site. Gradually the altitude becomes a self-sufficient function, as the peculiar way of satisfying the ambitions of the customer. Nowadays, the race for leadership among high-rise building has turned into independent discipline, where the primacy is rather symbolic.

The History of Success

(Issue of a magazine 2/2011, page 28)

Nikken Sekkei has been holding the leading position in global architectural industry for several decades. The company’s staff encompasses professionals excellently coping with the most complex architectural and engineering tasks. Its philosophy, structure and management system are positively unique. Mitsuo Nakamura, the Nikken Sekkei Chairman of the Board, unveils the corporate secret of success.

At the Junction of Five Routes

(Issue of a magazine 2/2011, page 32)

Nihonbashi area close to Nihonbashi Bridge in Tokyo has flourished since Edo era (a period of Japanese history, when shoguns of the Tokugawa family held power (1603- 1868) as a center of Japanese economy and culture. As a cardinal point of Gokaido (Five Routes), it has been bustled with people and products from various places. Upon modernization in Meiji Era (the epoch of Mutsuhito reign, which extended from September 1868 through July 1912), it became the center of Japanese finance.

The Beaming Architecture

(Issue of a magazine 2/2011, page 38)

The cutting-edge architecture is often virtually provocative, challenging conventional stylistics and design methodologies. Charles Jencks, the renowned chronographer of architecture states that the new forms might look repellent evoking suspicion about dilettantism of authors, but on close examining these could appear to be much exciting and relevant to our apperception, rather than endless colonnades of the past or modernist glass curtain walls.