Archive for the 'Skyscraper' Category
Fascinating Design from Spear Skyscraper in Serbia
Designed by architecture students Milica Stankovic and Vuk Djordjevic from Belgrade University in Serbia, Spear tower is a five star luxury hotel in Serbia. The main idea was to create a high rise hotel as a new land-mark for the city. The tower is 201 meters tall and has 80,000 square meters of space. The [...]
Category: Skyscraper,Towers, posted at: Jan 17th 2011, Comments: No CommentsTags: architecture students, natural ventilation, open space, Serbia, shopping, square meters, ventilation
Fascinating Vertical Amusement Skyscraper in New York City
New York based Architect Ju Hyun Kim proposes stacking up what is usually a rather land intensive endeavor into a vertical tower, complete with thrilling rides and gravity defying drops. Unlike most amusement parks, which require a long drive and a massive parking lot, a vertical urban version could cut down greatly on emissions. Since [...]
Category: Skyscraper, posted at: Jan 11th 2011, Comments: 1 CommentTags: environmental impact, footprint, Ju Hyan, New York, structure design, walkways
Fascinating design from Biomorphic Skyscraper
Designed by David Butterworth and Samuel Chaohui Zeng, Biomorphic Skyscraper transcends the virtual and physical limits of tall buildings, their ability to mingle into the existing urban fabric and transform a city’s dynamic core becomes a fine line between the density and physical mass already embedded in the metropolis and the ingenious ability to create [...]
Category: Skyscraper,Towers, posted at: Jan 9th 2011, Comments: No CommentsTags: aerial view, density, footprint, landmark, tall buildings, tower structure, urban fabric
Unique Spiraling Stairscraper
Nabito Architects designed this spiraling Stairscraper concept that provides both a smaller foot print and a backyard to boot. This design has purposed to become much denser to support burgeoning populations, free land for other uses, and maximize infrastructure. The‘cottage towers cork screw into the air to create a unique relief against the sky. Likes [...]
Category: Architects,infrastructure,Skyscraper, posted at: Jan 5th 2011, Comments: No CommentsTags: BIG, density, interior, landscapes, Marina City, Mountain Dwelling, Nabito Architects, urban areas
New Urbanism Soup City for Tokyo
The multi layered and self organized urban centers of Tokyo, Odaiba was master planned to accommodate an array of skyscrapers connected by a transportation network and green space. Although the site offers vast territories unprecedented in Tokyo, development by the private sector has been slow primarily due to its significant scale. The lack of human [...]
Category: Skyscraper,Towers, posted at: Dec 25th 2010, Comments: No CommentsTags: aerial view, evolo, skyscrapers, Soup City, structure design, Tokyo
Magnificent 21st Century Gateway Skyscraper in Africa
Conceived as an iconoclastic intervention which implodes the conception of skyscraper at the global and local scale, Adamastor’s Throne exists to reveal and respond to the social fabric and cultural framework of an entire country, South Africa, but specifically Cape Town and its complex and contradictory history. The tower is an ontological experiment to provide [...]
Category: Architectural,Skyscraper,Towers, posted at: Dec 24th 2010, Comments: No CommentsTags: Africa, architectural expression, Cape Town, evolo, South Africa, topography
Magnificient Urban Zoo Skyscraper by Influx Studio
The architecture firm of Ohio State University faculty members Jason Kentner and Karen Lewis, Influx Studio design a vertical Urban Zoo Skyscraper with 240 meters tall for a 2009 competition. With wide expanses to comfortably house animals stacked on top of each other, Influx Studio has created a completely original zoo design that makes wildlife [...]
Category: Skyscraper,Zoo Buildings, posted at: Dec 24th 2010, Comments: No CommentsTags: architecture firm, Buenos Aires, competition, evolo, Influx Studio
Futuristic Exoskeleton Skyscraper in Cheongna City
Designed by Tom Wiscombe (Emergent Architecture), the Exoskeleton Skyscraper in Cheongna City structure is based on creating an innovative spatial, structural, and energy production device which will become an operational symbol of the future for the IFEZ Cheongna region. Located at the intersection of the main pedestrian passageway from east to west and the main [...]
Category: Skyscraper,Towers, posted at: Dec 23rd 2010, Comments: No CommentsTags: energy production, IFEZ, Incheon Airport, Lake Park, Sky Terraces
UK’s tallest building is The Shard
The Shard in London becoming the UK’s tallest building. Conceived 11 years ago by Renzo Piano and Seller Property Group, the tower replaces a 1960s office tower next to the London Bridge Station with a vertical city, complete with office, residential, commercial, hotel, and restaurant space. Improved public transit centers and public plaza space are [...]
Category: Innovation Designer,Skyscraper, posted at: Dec 22nd 2010, Comments: 1 CommentTags: indoor air quality, Innovation Designer, london, office tower, Renzo Piano, story structure, tallest building, UK, ventilation
Stunning Design Anti Smog Skyscraper in Paris
Designed by Vincent Callebaut, this sustainable Anti Smog Skyscraper in Paris Used to filter air particles and harvest wind and solar power. It’s located in the 19th Parisian district which characterizes for being an extremely polluted area surrounded by old factories. This skyscraper designed divided in to two parts, a Solar Drop that located on [...]
Category: Recreational Areas,Skyscraper, posted at: Dec 21st 2010, Comments: No CommentsTags: evolo, facades, neighborhood, Paris, solar, solar power
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