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HTA Design completes Europe’s tallest modular residential tower in Croydon

October 13, 2023 Amy Peacock 0

British architecture studio HTA Design has completed a 163-metre-tall apartment building in Croydon that it claims is “Europe’s tallest residential tower to be completed using volumetric construction methods”. Named College Road, the building is made up of two adjoining 50 and 35-storey towers wrapped in a pleated ceramic facade. It sits across the street from

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OMA reveals geometric Dhaka skyscraper as first Bangladesh project

September 29, 2023 Cajsa Carlson 0

Dutch studio OMA has unveiled visuals of the geometric Dhaka Tower, its first project in Bangladesh, which “expresses the aspirations of a dynamic nation”. The 150-metre-high skyscraper will house offices and be located on the shore of Hatirjheel Lake in a new commercial district at the edge of Tejgaon, Dhaka. Dhaka Tower was designed for

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MVRDV unveils The Canyon tower with “public ravine” in San Francisco

June 26, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

Dutch architecture studio MVRDV has unveiled The Canyon, a housing complex in San Francisco that marks its first completed project on the United States’ West Coast. The Canyon is a 23-storey high rise with a 240-foot-tall (73 metres) tower standing on top of a plinth with a bisecting walkway that creates a canyon effect, giving

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MAD’s first South American building will resemble “twisting vines”

May 2, 2023 Cajsa Carlson 0

Chinese architecture studio MAD has unveiled visuals of Qondesa, a skyscraper for Ecuador’s capital Quito that will feature a planted facade and become the city’s tallest building. The mixed-use tower, which will house “intimately-scaled” urban apartments, is set to take the title of Quito’s tallest building from Danish studio BIG’s nearby Iqon tower. It also

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PAU designs US air traffic control towers to “build on legacy” of IM Pei

April 20, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

New York studio PAU has released designs for air traffic control towers that will be built at airports in the United States as the largest commission since IM Pei’s designs in the early 1960s. Practice for Architecture and Urbanism (PAU) was selected in an open competition by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to design a new

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Heatherwick Studio and Barcode Architects unveil design for cylindrical faceted-glass tower

April 12, 2023 Amy Peacock 0

UK practice Heatherwick Studio and Dutch studio Barcode Architects have revealed visuals of Oopen, a stacked cylindrical tower topped with landscaped terraces designed for Utrecht’s city centre. The building will be made up of a series of stacked cylindrical forms with faceted glass facades, designed to stand out against its surrounding buildings. Landscaped terraces will top

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Sara Kulturhus Centre “unleashed a world of previously unimagined design possibilities”

March 31, 2023 Lizzie Crook 0

The penultimate case study in our Timber Revolution series is a 20-storey mass-timber building just below the Arctic Circle – the Sara Kulturhus Centre by Swedish studio White Arkitekter. Standing 72.8 metres tall in the Swedish city of Skellefteå, the landmark structure became one of the world’s tallest mass-timber buildings when it was completed in

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Safdie Architects completes Quito high-rise with undulating “hillside” facades

December 9, 2022 James Parkes 0

Boston-based architecture studio Safdie Architects has completed a 24-storey residential building in Ecuador that has a snaking profile with staggered apartments and terraces. Located in Quito, Ecuador, the 24-storey high-rise comprises 92 residences, two retail spaces and restaurants. It borders the city’s La Carolina Park and is a short distance from BIG’s recently completed Iqon

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Herzog & de Meuron unveils plans to add two towers to Liverpool Street station

November 25, 2022 James Parkes 0

Swiss architecture studio Herzog & de Meuron has revealed its plan to overhaul London’s Liverpool Street station, which includes the addition of two towers above the railway terminus. Herzog & de Meuron’s proposal also includes improvements to the station and railway infrastructure, such as the addition of 60 per cent more ticket barriers, 1.5 acres

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Johan Sundberg Arkitektur designs “accessible yet exceptional” housing blocks in Sweden

November 23, 2022 Jon Astbury 0

Swedish practice Johan Sundberg Arkitektur has completed a cluster of timber-clad housing blocks in Ystad, Sweden, with facades of folding glass screens that allow their balconies to be turned into sheltered winter gardens. Called Hygrometern, the cluster of four blocks provides a mixture of 20 two and three-bedroom mid-budget apartments on a sloping site overlooking

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