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Rocky Mountains in Cities Silhouettes

(Issue of a magazine 6/2011, page 18)

History of Canadian highrise construction in the twentieth century quite keeps within overall North American periodization of this architectural field development. Today for Canadian cities are actively designing as famed celebrities and international companies specialized in high-altitude construction, as well as local architectural firms. Crossing the millennium, the architecture of the country has experienced a new rise, marked by the splash of interest in high-rise construction.

Canadian Marilyn Monroe

(Issue of a magazine 6/2011, page 26)

Mississauga is a sixth largest city in Canada located in Southern Ontario in the Regional Municipality of Peel, and in the western part of the Greater Toronto Area. Mississauga has one of the largest corporate/ financial districts in Canada with major international companies having their Canadian headquarters located in the region including Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, PepsiCo, General Electric, Siemens, Fujitsu and Wal-Mart Canada among many other Fortune 500 companies.

The USA: Plans and Their Realization

(Issue of a magazine 5/2011, page 18)

Till a moment when the world economic crisis shaken principals of the American society, the USA intended to defend a status of the brightest and incredible world skyscrapers’ owner. If a quite disputable idea to achieve absolute indices in buildings heights didn’t become popular in many places of the USA, then a complex usage of the most leader achievements of sciences and technologies became as a norm for the tall construction.

Harwood Village Contrasts

(Issue of a magazine 5/2011, page 26)

Located within Harwood’s 17-city block district, ‘Harwood Village’ will become the latest addition to the Uptown area of Dallas, Texas. The site is the rectangular block sandwiched between McKinnon Street to the North and North-West, North Harwood Street to the South, and Wolf Street to the East. Setting a benchmark in urban living, the ambition of the project is to bring new life to the city’s urban sprawl.

America: The New Millennium Skyscrepers

(Issue of a magazine 4/2011, page 20)

XX century American altitude civil engineering is a basic reference standard for most countries. Design achievements tested on the construction of American skyscrapers and well-tried constructive methods represent the gold portfolio of world high-rise construction. What happens in high-rise architecture of the United States in the new century? Whether there are exciting ideas, innovative, unique technologies and think outside of the box solutions? In our brief review we have attempted to present the most striking pieces of modern vivid palette of the American highrise construction.

Postclassic Manhattan Silhouette

(Issue of a magazine 4/2011, page 28)

In February 2011, in New York was formally opened a skyscraper, designed by Frank Gehry, and after changing several names finally called New York by Gehry. In June the same year it was named the best high-rise building in the Americas for 2011 according to CTBUH.

Five Lakes Tower

(Issue of a magazine 4/2011, page 34)

Among the built in recent times American skyscrapers Aqua attracts special attention. The Aqua was named the Emporis Skyscraper Award 2009 skyscraper of the year and was shortlisted in 2010 for the biannual International Highrise Award. The skyscraper has also received several national and international specialized awards for various aspects of development and building innovative solutions for building construction (Honor Award, Distinguished Building, AIA Chicago, 2010; Proggy Award, 2009; PET A 2008 American Architecture Award). Special attention deserves the fact that Aqua is designed by a team led by Jeanne Gang, the building is the tallest in the world to have a woman as lead architect.

Reflection of verticals: Kiev and Minsk

(Issue of a magazine 3/2011, page 22)

In the new century many of former Soviet states covered by the desire to build their business areas traditionally called “City”. The emergence of high-rise architecture, much changing the overall silhouette of the city, should symbolize the visible changes in the political and economic development of these countries. The need for new offices, desirable having premium class status and fundamentally different from the existing buildings are intended to identify ambition as governments of independent Ukraine and Belarus, as well as their business circles, and also the creation of modern apartment complexes with a new level of comfort – is an urgent task for these states.

“Pysanka“ on the Dnipro River

(Issue of a magazine 3/2011, page 32)

Architecture of Ukraine have come a long historical path of development and on its territory are a lot of famous monuments of past epochs. But today, no doubt, there is a need for construction, which would symbolize modernity. Unfortunately, none of the built or designed buildings, known by publications, has any such quality.

Aspiration Upwards Aspiration Upwards

(Issue of a magazine 3/2011, page 38)

Minsk the capital of Belarus – was almost completely destroyed during The II World War. Along with the reviving city also was developed its own school of architecture. By the projects of local architects was built a lot of interesting buildings.