Discover the Mercury Tower located on Malta’s East coast, Paceville, designed by Zaha Hadid Architects. The 31-storey tower integrates residential apartments and boutique hotel, creating new public spaces and amenities for the island’s residents and visitors. The site includes the remaining façades of the old Mercury House from 1903, that will be renovated as integral parts of the new […] More
New York-based studio Asymptote Architecture designed the stunning 57-story luxury condominium tower Missoni Baia, located in Edgewater, Miami. Take a look at the complete story after the jump. More
LAN Architecture office has designed the 360° View Tower, a panoramic 18-story tower in Nantes, France. It is located on the Brossette site, which completes the transformation of the Boulevard Vincent-Gdche, with the largest project ever built on the ‘fie de Nantes. This 1.5 hectare lot facing the Loire River will soon be home to […] More
Architect Vincent Callebaut in collaboration with Bouygues Immobilier group, won the public vote of the “Imagine Angers” international design competition with a lush vertical forest designed as an innovative residential, multi-purpose environment. Arboricole, meaning “tree” and “cultivation,” is a 50-apartment building complete with a bar, concert hall, brewery, and art spaces. More
UNStudio has joined forces with HPP Architects to create a consortium (UNS + HPP) to carry out the next phases of their winning project at the architectural design competition for FOUR Frankfurt. Take a look at the complete story after the jump. More
A unanimous jury granted the project Nordisk Lys by Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter winner of the invited planning and architecture competition for the design proposal of Fjordporten Oslo S. Take a look at the complete story below. More
The new Sassetti Tower designed by L22 Urban & Building is the hub of the newly constructed Fintech district, an urban area aimed at developing innovative, technological finance, in Milan. More
Construction works have begun on Zaha Hadid Arhitects‘ Bora Residential Tower in Mexico City. Commissioned in 2015 by Nemesis Capital, a Mexican company committed to building new communities of the highest standards, the tower is within Santa Fe, an important business district in the west of Mexico City with a rapidly growing community that includes […] More
UNStudio, in collaboration with Werner Sobek, was invited by the Wasl Development Group to design a new kind of high-rise for the city of Dubai that would act as a benchmark for both the region and for the Wasl Development Group itself. More
Modern skyscrapers liberate human activities from gravity. Skyscraper featured by verticality makes us break away from familiar senses and consciousness of being existing. “An existence without evidences” is not only the description of varied skyscrapers but also of the life it accommodated. Architecture should respond to its specific site actively and establish dialogue with its […] More
The tower is located in the heart of the district of La Défense, willed into existence in the 1960’s by Général de Gaulle to show the world that France was entering into the modern world of finance and business. It’s a curious above-ground urban mixture, an artificial island, veritable realm of “corporate architecture”. More
Designed by Ben van Berkel / UNStudio, CapitaLand’s new Raffles City is a sustainable urban hub for living, working and leisure located in Hangzhou, one of China’s most picturesque cities. It forms the eighth Raffles City development in China. More