Büro Ole Scheeren has revealed plans for an extraordinary new project named the Tencent Helix. Taking the form of four connected twisting towers, the ambitious development will serve as the new global headquarters of tech giant Tencent in Shenzhen, China.
Tencent Helix is part of a burgeoning new district in Shenzhen that Büro Ole Scheeren says is comparable in size and shape to Midtown Manhattan. Indeed, the building itself will be massive too and, to put its size into perspective, its 500,000 sq m (roughly 5.3 million sq ft) of floorspace will be almost twice that of Apple Park in California.
The four towers will reach varying heights, with the tallest topping out at a maximum of 153 m (501 ft), making it a bona fide skyscraper, while their exteriors will be finished in intricate prismatic glazed panels, ensuring lots of daylight permeates within. The individual towers will be arranged around a large lush central garden area named the Vortex Garden, which will provide staff with the opportunity to enjoy some green space and fresh air. Underneath this, inside the actual building, will be the so-called Vortex Incubator, which will host multiple recreational spaces and will be naturally illuminated with a skylight.
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Plans for an ambitious new supertall skyscraper have been revealed for Oklahoma City. Assuming the project goes ahead as expected, it will be the second-tallest skyscraper in the United States – as well as the second-tallest in the entire Western Hemisphere.
The Boardwalk at Bricktown skyscraper has been designed by AO Architects for developers Matteson Capital and Thinkbox, and is part of a larger development push in the downtown area.
It will reach a considerable height of 1,750 ft (533.4 m). To put this into perspective, this is just 26 ft (almost 8 m) short of the USA's current tallest building, the One World Trade Center, which stands at the symbolic height of 1,776 ft (541.3 m), marking the United States' Declaration of Independence in 1776. As far as world rankings go, the new skyscraper will sit at number eight, just ahead of the Guangzhou CTF Finance Center, by KPF.
https://newatlas.com/architecture/legends-tower-ao/Oklahoma's Boardwalk at Bricktown skyscraper was recently revealed as the upcoming second-tallest skyscraper in the United States. Designer AO is now aiming for even greater heights, however, and has carried out an ambitious redesign in a bid to make it the country's new tallest building.
Assuming all goes ahead as planned, the supertall skyscraper, now named the Legends Tower, will reach a maximum height of 1,907 ft (581 m), instead of the originally planned 1,750 ft (533 m). This figure is symbolic, marking the year Oklahoma became the USA's 46th state.
Dubai is full of eye-catching skyscrapers but the newly completed One Za'abeel, by Japan's Nikken Sekkei, is sure to stand out even there. The project takes the form of two adjacent towers which support a horizontal bridge section that forms the world's longest cantilever.
One Za'abeel's two skyscrapers rise to a height of 235 m (770 ft) and 305 m (1,000 ft), respectively, and contain residential space, office space, and a hotel between them. They're both situated on top of a podium building with a green roof.
The project is defined by that horizontal bridge section, named the Link, which is anchored to both towers at a height of 100 m (328 ft) above a busy highway. It measures 230 m (754 ft) in length while the cantilevering section itself (i.e. the part that juts out) measures 66 m (216 ft). The Link is topped by an infinity swimming pool and viewing points, with views of the Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building. Its interior has more viewing points, plus restaurants and lounge areas, and it serves as a bridge to access each building.
weatheriscool wrote: ↑Fri Feb 02, 2024 6:24 pm Extraordinary cantilevering One Za'abeel is an engineering triumph
By Adam Williams
February 02, 2024
https://newatlas.com/architecture/one-z ... en-sekkei/Dubai is full of eye-catching skyscrapers but the newly completed One Za'abeel, by Japan's Nikken Sekkei, is sure to stand out even there. The project takes the form of two adjacent towers which support a horizontal bridge section that forms the world's longest cantilever.
One Za'abeel's two skyscrapers rise to a height of 235 m (770 ft) and 305 m (1,000 ft), respectively, and contain residential space, office space, and a hotel between them. They're both situated on top of a podium building with a green roof.
The project is defined by that horizontal bridge section, named the Link, which is anchored to both towers at a height of 100 m (328 ft) above a busy highway. It measures 230 m (754 ft) in length while the cantilevering section itself (i.e. the part that juts out) measures 66 m (216 ft). The Link is topped by an infinity swimming pool and viewing points, with views of the Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building. Its interior has more viewing points, plus restaurants and lounge areas, and it serves as a bridge to access each building.
https://newatlas.com/architecture/mori- ... -partners/Japan now boasts a new tallest skyscraper, the Mori JP Tower. Rising to a height of 325.2 m (1,066 ft) in Tokyo, the building is designed to reduce its grid-based energy usage with sustainability features and to be resilient in the face of the country's seismicity.
The Mori JP Tower was designed by Pelli Clarke & Partners and is located in the Azabudai Hills development, a burgeoning new district packed with green space which also includes buildings by Heatherwick Studio, plus two other high-rise towers.
The new skyscraper features a glazed facade and an overall form meant to evoke the shape and symmetry of a lotus flower, with a crown of four curved glass "petals." Its exterior is also illuminated with bands of integrated lighting, designed by US lighting design firm L'Observatoire International to glow pleasingly at night.
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Officials have given the thumbs up for a new tallest skyscraper in the United States – and it's not headed for New York City or Chicago as you might expect, but to a tornado-prone area with a population of only around 700,000 people: Oklahoma City.
We first saw this audacious project proposed as the USA's second-tallest skyscraper. Following this, the designers and developers went back to the drawing board and decided to go one better, updating their plans to make it the tallest building in the country. More details have since emerged.
We now know that the Legends Tower will be located on the site of a parking lot near a railroad track and a U-Haul storage facility. It will reach a symbolic height of 1,907 ft (581 m), to commemorate the year Oklahoma became the USA's 46th state. To put that into perspective, it will be a significant 130 ft (39 m) taller than the USA's current tallest skyscraper, NYC's One World Trade Center, and will be placed at sixth-tallest in the world rankings, just behind China's Ping An Finance Center.
Why?weatheriscool wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2024 5:57 pm USA's tallest building approved for Oklahoma City
By Adam Williams
April 18, 2024https://newatlas.com/architecture/legen ... ermission/
Officials have given the thumbs up for a new tallest skyscraper in the United States – and it's not headed for New York City or Chicago as you might expect, but to a tornado-prone area with a population of only around 700,000 people: Oklahoma City.
We first saw this audacious project proposed as the USA's second-tallest skyscraper. Following this, the designers and developers went back to the drawing board and decided to go one better, updating their plans to make it the tallest building in the country. More details have since emerged.
We now know that the Legends Tower will be located on the site of a parking lot near a railroad track and a U-Haul storage facility. It will reach a symbolic height of 1,907 ft (581 m), to commemorate the year Oklahoma became the USA's 46th state. To put that into perspective, it will be a significant 130 ft (39 m) taller than the USA's current tallest skyscraper, NYC's One World Trade Center, and will be placed at sixth-tallest in the world rankings, just behind China's Ping An Finance Center.
Seeing how these people literally live in the stone age and god is central to their life. I'd say they want to build a tower to him.raklian wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2024 5:58 pmWhy?weatheriscool wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2024 5:57 pm USA's tallest building approved for Oklahoma City
By Adam Williams
April 18, 2024https://newatlas.com/architecture/legen ... ermission/
Officials have given the thumbs up for a new tallest skyscraper in the United States – and it's not headed for New York City or Chicago as you might expect, but to a tornado-prone area with a population of only around 700,000 people: Oklahoma City.
We first saw this audacious project proposed as the USA's second-tallest skyscraper. Following this, the designers and developers went back to the drawing board and decided to go one better, updating their plans to make it the tallest building in the country. More details have since emerged.
We now know that the Legends Tower will be located on the site of a parking lot near a railroad track and a U-Haul storage facility. It will reach a symbolic height of 1,907 ft (581 m), to commemorate the year Oklahoma became the USA's 46th state. To put that into perspective, it will be a significant 130 ft (39 m) taller than the USA's current tallest skyscraper, NYC's One World Trade Center, and will be placed at sixth-tallest in the world rankings, just behind China's Ping An Finance Center.
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/04/20/styl ... index.htmlPublished 4:00 AM EDT, Sat April 20, 2024
Everyone knows the familiar shapes that make up New York’s skyline. There’s the Art Deco curved crown of the Chrysler Building, the sweeping isosceles triangles that twist around One World Trade Center, the stepped limestone and granite rectangles of the Empire State Building and the triangular prism of the Flatiron Building.
And now, a multi-billion-dollar tower featuring floor-to-ceiling glass will add another dimension to the cityscape, according to new details unveiled by New York City Mayor Eric Adams this week.
Stretching up 62 stories, a planned office tower at 350 Park Avenue will provide space for more than 6,000 jobs, plus 1.8 million square feet of commercial office space, according to a press release. It will be funded by Vornado Realty Trust, Kenneth Griffin, founder and CEO of global investment firm Citadel, and building and management company Rudin.
White columns will frame a new public concourse at the base of the new building on Park Avenue, complete with green space, seating and art displays, images show.
Above, landscaped terraces will top each section of the glass-clad tower which will house the offices for Citadel and market making firm Citadel Securities.
Dubai already hosts the world's tallest building, the Burj Khalifa, and it has now been revealed that it will soon boast bragging rights for the world's tallest residential skyscraper too. Currently under construction in the city's Marina district, the supertall will feature 122 floors and just 251 ultra-luxurious residences.
The Six Senses Residences Dubai Marina will reach a height of 517 m (1,696 ft), making it lot taller than the current world's tallest residential skyscraper, New York City's Central Park Tower, which has a maximum height of 474 m (1,550 ft) and an even more ridiculously low 179 homes. Height numbers can become a little abstract, but rest assured this is a very tall building and will be rated at around 11th-tallest in the world.
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Fresh plans have been submitted to build a 34-storey apartment block at the bottom of Battersea Bridge in South London. Developer Rockwell Property has slashed the proposed height of the tower from 39 storeys, which included the ground floor, after hundreds of people objected.
The changes mean the maximum number of homes that could be provided in the tower at 1 Battersea Bridge Road has fallen from 170 to 142. The revised proposals have been revealed in a new screening report submitted by company Promontoria Battersea Ltd to Wandsworth Council. The report outlines the scheme to check whether an environmental statement needs to be submitted with the formal planning application, which has not yet been submitted.
The Glassmill office building at the corner of the River Thames and Battersea Bridge Road, which has been empty since 2021, would be demolished to make way for the new apartment block. The tower would reach up to 34 storeys, including the ground floor, and have offices and community space.
It comes after Rockwell Property confirmed to the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS) in February it had scrapped original plans for the site so it could reduce the proposed height of the tower after reviewing feedback from residents. A total of 340 residents had objected to the previous scoping opinion request outlining the developer's original plans for tower up to 39 storeys tall on the site.
One resident wrote the 'ridiculously tall building' would 'stick out like the world's largest sore thumb'. He said: "It would be a very quick way to ruin the feel of the whole place. It is entirely incongruous with its surroundings, with our Battersea, with the whole charming aesthetic of our neighbourhood."
https://newatlas.com/architecture/ooda-bond-tower/OODA is certainly no stranger to designing unusual buildings, however its latest project ramps up the ambition considerably. Named Bond Tower, it takes the form of a pair of skyscrapers that have kinks in them, forming a shape likened to an oversized ballet pose.
Bringing to mind New York City's "dancing" American Copper Buildings, the Bond Tower is a mixed-use residential project that will be located in Tirana, the capital of Albania. Its singular name comes from the fact that though each tower has its own central core, the two towers unify into one larger structure as they rise. Indeed, the firm actually considers it a single building.
There's no information yet on the exact height of the project, but the taller tower will consist of 50 floors, so it will be a bona fide skyscraper, albeit not a huge one. The patterned facade is inspired by traditional Albanian carpets, as well as the surrounding mountains and countryside, with greenery incorporated into the landscaping and rooftop terraces that will be made up of native flora.
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Why protest? Doesn't London have a housing shortage? It needs every new residence it can get.Time_Traveller wrote: ↑Wed May 01, 2024 6:46 pm New plans unveiled for 34-storey tower block by Battersea Bridge after hundreds objected
https://www.mylondon.news/news/south-lo ... em_desktop17:50, 1 MAY 2024
Fresh plans have been submitted to build a 34-storey apartment block at the bottom of Battersea Bridge in South London. Developer Rockwell Property has slashed the proposed height of the tower from 39 storeys, which included the ground floor, after hundreds of people objected.
The changes mean the maximum number of homes that could be provided in the tower at 1 Battersea Bridge Road has fallen from 170 to 142. The revised proposals have been revealed in a new screening report submitted by company Promontoria Battersea Ltd to Wandsworth Council. The report outlines the scheme to check whether an environmental statement needs to be submitted with the formal planning application, which has not yet been submitted.
The Glassmill office building at the corner of the River Thames and Battersea Bridge Road, which has been empty since 2021, would be demolished to make way for the new apartment block. The tower would reach up to 34 storeys, including the ground floor, and have offices and community space.
It comes after Rockwell Property confirmed to the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS) in February it had scrapped original plans for the site so it could reduce the proposed height of the tower after reviewing feedback from residents. A total of 340 residents had objected to the previous scoping opinion request outlining the developer's original plans for tower up to 39 storeys tall on the site.
One resident wrote the 'ridiculously tall building' would 'stick out like the world's largest sore thumb'. He said: "It would be a very quick way to ruin the feel of the whole place. It is entirely incongruous with its surroundings, with our Battersea, with the whole charming aesthetic of our neighbourhood."
