A glossy new office block has been proposed for the banks of the Min River by Kalarch Design Group. The firm has been commissioned by the China Communications Bank to design its Fuzhou Headquarters, resulting in a shimmering 100m-high tower overlooking the scenic riverfront.
Gehry Partners has secured first place in a design competition for a highrise residential tower in Berlin for real estate firm Hines. Once completed, the structure will be the first highrise residential property in the city since the 1970s at 492ft and will blend modest apartment units with penthouse residences. There are also plans to incorporate a hotel facility into the development.
eVolo Magazine is pleased to invite architects, students, engineers, designers, and artists from around the globe to take part in the "eVolo 2015 Skyscraper Competition".
Forest City Ratner Companies (FCRC) and Shanghai-based Greenland Group Co. (Greenland) have announced that they will install a green roof on Barclays Center in Brooklyn.
A design competition to masterplan two prime sites in the Shenzhen Qianhai Special Economic Zone has been won by Farrells. Initiated to boost cross border trade between Hong Kong and Shenzhen, the mixeduse development is destined for an easily-accessible site adjacent to the Qianhaiwan Metro Station.
Construction of the new 56-storey SMDP, LLC-designed Samsung headquarters broke ground on 27 February in Beijing. The 2 million sq ft project will be one of 16 new global corporate headquarters located within the eastern central business district currently being developed. Samsung chose Chicago-based international architecture firm SMDP to lead design efforts because of the firm’s previous work coupled with its global experience and knowledge of working with Samsung.
In 2008 construction stalled on Santiago Calatrava’s Chicago Spire – one of many victims of the financial crisis. What would have been the tallest building in the United States shuddered to a halt as the money dried up and all that remains to this day is a 76ft by 110ft hole in the ground on a prime site in the Windy City.
Having worked closely with major internet firms Google and Amazon in the creation of their high-tech campuses, NBBJ is well-versed in the design of offices for web-based companies. The international firm has now teamed up with the third-largest internet company in the world – Tencent – to design the e-commerce giant’s new home in Shenzhen.
The smallest province in China, Hainan Island, is soon to gain an immense new hotel and conference centre complex from an internationally-renowned practice. Goettsch Partners has just released details of its Rosewood Sanya and International Finance Forum in Haitang Bay, due to complete in 2015.
A glistening white mixed-use scheme is destined to grace the Paseo de la Reforma in Mexico City, a significant thoroughfare that splices the city in two. The new face on this bustling street is a two-pronged development by Richard Meier & Partners and Diametro Arquitectos entitled Reforma Towers.
