USA's tallest building approved for Oklahoma City
By Adam Williams
April 18, 2024
https://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.
weatheriscool wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2024 5:57 pm USA's tallest building approved for Oklahoma City
By Adam Williams
April 18, 2024
https://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.
Why?
To know is essentially the same as not knowing. The only thing that occurs is the rearrangement of atoms in your brain.
weatheriscool wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2024 5:57 pm USA's tallest building approved for Oklahoma City
By Adam Williams
April 18, 2024
https://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.
Why?
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.
The new 62-story tower set to transform New York City’s skyline
Published 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.
World's tallest residential tower offers sky-high opulence in Dubai
By Adam Williams
April 29, 2024
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.
New plans unveiled for 34-storey tower block by Battersea Bridge after hundreds objected
17:50, 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."
