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
At the heart of this project is both workplace design and city making. We have sought to make a building that reinterprets and honours the uniqueness and history of this place, positioned at the edge of Sydney’s Tank-Stream (the first water source of the colony of New South Wales). We envisaged a different type of […] More
Oiio studio has unveiled designs for curved skyscraper ‘The Big Bend’ as solution to expensive zoning laws. Described as the “longest building in the world”, the project’s concept drawings reveal a skyscraper reaching an apex then curving back down. And featuring an elevator system that can travel in curves, horizontally and in loops. More
The elegant Vision Tower by tvsdesign is located at the entrance to Dubai’s newest business district, Business Bay, and serves as a beacon for the development. Within the new Dubai Creek extension and Sheik Zayed Road, Business Bay is the new standard for professional property development in the region. The tower delivers over 650,000 square […] More
LAVA’s Zhejiang Gate Towers are an iconic entrance to the city of Hangzhou. The design of the two towers is based on the Chinese characters for ‘gate’, and they feature a shimmering façade of fins. LAVA was commissioned by Shimao (Hangzhou) in 2014 to masterplan the mixed-use development, which consists of five buildings housing offices, residential, and retail. LAVA’s masterplan […] More
The Flemish Brabant municipality of Tielt-Winge -Belgium has been a place for people to enjoy a striking example of landscape architecture since May 2015. An eye-catching structure that blurs the distinction between a tower and a stairway floats high above the famous Kabouterbos (fairy tale forest) and draws the curiosity of many Tielt residents and […] More
Designed in 2015 by Architect Jean Nouvel, this contemporary tower situated in Nicosia, Cyprus, transforms the city silhouette. Take a look at the complete story after the jump. More