The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) Awards Jury selected Bosco Verticale as the “2015 Best Tall Building Worldwide” at the 14th Annual CTBUH International Best Tall Building Awards Symposium, Ceremony & Dinner, celebrated November 12 at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago.
November 12th, 2015 at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago was celebrated the 14th Annual CTBUH International Best Tall Building Awards Symposium, Ceremony & Dinner, which was held by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) following the competition “2015 Best Tall Building Worldwide”.
Benoy, the global studio of Architects, Masterplanners, Interior and Graphic Designers has celebrated the topping out of Suning Plaza in Xuzhou, China on 29 December. The firm is undertaking a multi-disciplinary scope on the development, delivering the Retail Architecture, Interior Design and Graphic Design of the mixed-use project. The development will be Benoy’s first completed project in the city.
Since Autodesk first entered the market of computer-aided design it has passed more than thirty years. Over the years the industry has changed a lot, but today Autodesk remains the world leader in 2D- and 3D-design. Autodesk Vice President of Global Services Callan Carpenter answered the questions of Tall Buildings magazine.
January 13 was announced that Alejandro Aravena of Chile has been selected as the 2016 Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate. The formal award ceremony for what has come to be known internationally as architecture’s highest honor will be at United Nations Headquarters in New York on April 4, 2016.
What features nowadays architecture of highrise buildings? What are the trends of its further development? On these and other questions of Tall Buildings magazine answered Carlos R. Gomez - the architect whose projects are characterized by bold unexpected solutions.
Construction has begun on the Atkins-designed Evergrande International Financial Center in Hefei in Anhui province of China. The 518-metre supertall building will be the first skyscraper and highest landmark in Anhui province, China. The Evergrande International Financial Center in Hefei is the third Atkins-designed supertall building in Asia Pacific currently under construction. The other two projects are the 568-metre tall Pearl of the North in Shenyang and the 460- metre tall Vincom Landmark 81 in Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam.
Brisbane towers are continuing their dramatic skyward trend, with a proposal for a Cox Rayner Architectsdesigned high-rise building that precisely reaches the city’s 274.3m height limit submitted to the city council for approval. The 91 storey tower, described in the proposal as a “vertical village,” contains 732 apartments, with 517 twobedroom dwellings, 124 one-bedroom dwellings, 90 three-bedroom dwellings and a penthouse apartment containing four bedrooms and five bathrooms.
The sustainable high-rise luxury residential project, Vitra, is designed by architect Daniel Libeskind, Studio Libeskind (New York/Milan/Zurich) and developed by JHSF (Brazil), Brazil’s leading real estate development firm. Vitra is Libeskind’s first project in South America. Vitra is a luminous glass-clad, high-rise residential project in the Itaim Bibi district of São Paulo, near a number of the city’s main thoroughfares, offering access to the popular Ibirapuera and Do Povo parks.
60-storey skyscraper 56 Leonard Street located in lower Manhattan Tribeca, which construction to be completed this year, looks very similar to the assembled tower from the popular children’s board game “Jenga”. Does Leslie Scott, who in the 70s of the last century came up with this game, could imagine that her ideas after almost half a century will be embodied in the architecture? The project of “Jenga” (the nickname given the skyscraper by locals) was designed almost ten years ago by famous architectural firm Herzog & de Meuron.
