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Foster + Partners staggers limestone towers to create roof terraces with sea views in Beirut

December 12, 2017 India Block 0

Foster + Partners has completed its first project in Lebanon, a trio of limestone-clad residential towers in downtown Beirut with views out over the Mediterranean, and a McLaren car showroom in its base. The stepped blocks are part of 3Beirut, a city centre development designed by British architecture firm Foster + Partners for Lebanese luxury property developer Sea View

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Sou Fujimoto and AWAA win Brussels tower contest

December 1, 2017 Jessica Mairs 0

Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto and Belgian studio AWAA teamed up to design this mixed-use tower complex on the outskirts of Brussels, which will comprise a scooped roof and facade covered in tree-lined balconies. Sou Fujimoto and AWAA won a competition launched by property developer Unibra and construction company Thomas and Piron, to design the Delta Tower in the Auderghem municipality. Fujimoto posted a visual

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Isay Weinfeld high-rise puts Vienna UNESCO world heritage site under threat

November 22, 2017 India Block 0

Vienna’s historic city centre has been put on UNESCO’s danger list over plans for a high-rise development by Brazilian architect Isay Weinfeld, which is to include luxury apartments, a hotel and skating rink. UNESCO’s List of World Heritage in Danger highlights areas of cultural significance at risk of ruin through redevelopment. The United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization

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MAD’s Huangshan Mountain Village mimics the topography of a rocky Chinese landscape

November 14, 2017 Jessica Mairs 0

MAD has built a cluster of housing towers in China’s Anhui province, which take their forms from smooth shores of Taiping Lake and the granite peaks of the Huangshan mountain range. Ten housing blocks make up MAD’s Huangshan Mountain Village. The floorplates of each one decrease in scale towards the summit, tapering to create a peak-like formation along the

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Terraced gardens echoing paddy fields fill centre of Singapore’s Marina One

November 10, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

Snaking wooden walkways traverse a terraced garden planted with 700 trees at the heart of this tower development in Singapore’s Marina Bay by Ingenhoven Architects and landscape firm Gustafson Porter + Bowman. The Marina One development was designed by German studio Ingenhoven Architects and local firm A61 as a plant-covered “mountain”, comprising four high-rise blocks

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Undulating balconies to wrap 3XN’s condos on Toronto waterfront

October 30, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

Danish firm 3XN has won a competition to build a residential complex in Toronto, which will comprise a pair of tower peaks covered in rippling terraces based on the waves of the nearby lake. Developers Tridel and Hines organised the contest for the condominium as part of its transformation of the East Bayfront, a former industrial

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Latticed shell of SOM’s Beijing tower is based on traditional Chinese paper lanterns

October 3, 2017 India Block 0

The faceted exoskeleton of the tallest of these three office towers in Beijing by Skidmore Owings & Merrill is inspired by the patterns created by the folds on paper lanterns. The concertinaed external layer of the main tower of SOM’s Poly International Plaza creates a thermal envelope around office spaces, which are enclosed in a second layer of interior glazing. The

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Zaha Hadid Architects reveals plans for second Melbourne tower

September 26, 2017 Jessica Mairs 0

Zaha Hadid Architects has unveiled its designs for a 64-metre apartment block in Melbourne, which will feature facades covered in angular balconies and a roof topped by a pair of swimming pools.  The 19-storey tower named The Mayfair will be located on St Kilda Road, which links the district of St Kilda with the central business district

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DFA proposes tallest timber observation tower to clean Central Park reservoir

September 13, 2017 Dan Howarth 0

New York studio DFA has envisioned a prefabricated timber tower for New York’s Central Park that would both filter a contaminated reservoir and provide views over the city. The temporary 712-foot-tall (220-metre) Central Park Tower would sit in the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir, a 106-acre man-made lake that encompasses one-eighth of the park’s area and

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Richard Meier completes Bauhaus-inspired tower in Tel Aviv

September 5, 2017 Jessica Mairs 0

American architect Richard Meier has finished work on his first project in Israel, a residential tower covered in a “veil” of white louvres that ensure the building is in keeping with its Bauhaus-era neighbours in Tel Aviv’s White City. Richard Meier & Partners’ Rothschild Tower rises 154 metres above Rothschild Boulevard in the centre of the UNESCO-protected White City, which is renowned for its 20th-century architecture.

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