The history of Vietnam abounds with dramatic events and beautiful legends in which are fancifully intertwined the national and adscititious motives. The architecture of the country reflects this fusion by available techniques and materials inherent to the time. Therefore, nowadays you can find there spectacular examples of such cross-cultural symbiosis.
Reputed architectural design studio ICE raises the bar in the field of innovative architectural design. In partnership with Trinity & Associates ICE’s designers have developed a complex of buildings named Dragon City 6 (DC6) to be built in the resort town of Vung Tau, which is located 128 kilometers southeast of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
In recent years India was set a host of extremely high structures, a simple listing of which will run far beyond the limit of a short update. The most significant of them has been completed just “yesterday” and not yet fully covered in the trade press. Obviously, for the construction of skyscrapers in this densely populated country, there are certain points of attraction - the regions where such buildings are especially in demand.
The new architecture should be radically different from the one that existed before, said James Law, the Head of an Indian architectural firm James Law Cybertecture International. In his opinion, the building of the future - it is something more than just the structure of steel, glass and concrete. Lowe creates a new intelligent architecture - cybertecture that combines intellectual and multimedia systems, interactivity, sustainability, futuristic shapes and innovative engineering solutions.
Quite recently, in the articles on high-rise buildings, almost all of the new skyscrapers have been compared with New York or Chicago high-rises, but about the construction in Dubai or UAE in whole were spoken as of a separate exclusive facilities. Today, the reality has changed so much that America is no longer perceived as the main center of the most interesting skyscrapers. Featured and ultra-modern, megatall skyscrapers emerge mostly in Asia and the Middle East. Already for them the best architects of the Old and New World currently develop the most fantastic and incredible engineering solutions that are surprisingly easy to put into practice.
Modern-day Dubai is the setting for a world-class destination showcasing Middle Eastern history and heritage. In the new district called Culture Village the timeless and the contemporary coalesce. Culture Village is masterplanned to include open spaces and cobblestone walkways, bridges traversing waterways, art and sculpture, an exhibition hall, museums and a dockyard displaying traditional dhow-building. Creekside shopping, restaurants and cafes will offer enjoyment options, and a rustic Arabic souq will be a central focus.
Dubai Marina is an artificial canal city, carved along a two mile (3 km) stretch of Persian Gulf shoreline. When the entire development is complete, it will accommodate more than 120,000 people in residential towers and villas. It is located on Interchange 5 between Jebel Ali Port and the area which hosts Dubai Internet City, Dubai Media City, and the American University in Dubai. The first phase of this project has been completed. Upon completion, it is claimed to be the world’s largest manmade marina.
The total number of tall buildings in Great Britain, compared to, for example, the U.S.A., China or the Arab Emirates, is relatively few - to date there are only 49. But for a European country is an impressive figure. In plans for the near future the construction of further hundreds of skyscrapers. The overwhelming majority of them should be still concentrated in London. Just for your reference: of all the currently existing the country’s skyscrapers, that are structures greater than 100 meters hight (including the decorative helmets, which could be spires but not antennas), 38 are located in the capital, one building in Wales, and other ten in cities spread across Britain.
One of the most spectacular residential buildings in recent years, raised a large press feedback and a significant public interest, was Strata SE 1. The new residential skyscraper in London located on New Kent Road, aptly nicknamed the “Isengard”, probably due to its similarity with the famous pointed tower-fortress from Tolkien’s novel, dominate the surroundings and make a strong visual accent of adjacent development. It has the appearance of a non-trivial - the building ends with three 9-meter wind turbines, “embedded” in a concave inclined top form of the roof.
It might have been thought that the success of Beetham Tower on Old Hall Street could not have been rivalled, but Beetham Organization has unveiled West Tower; 140 m high office and residential more elegant building serves as the ‘jewel-in-the-crown’ of their Old Hall Street development.
