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Full funding secured for US tallest skyscraper says developer

March 11, 2024 Ben Dreith 0

Funding has been secured and construction may begin in September on the Legends Tower in Oklahoma City, which is planned to be the tallest in USA, says developer Scot Matteson. Designed by Californian architecture studio AO, the Legends Tower supertall skyscraper planned for Oklahoma City is fully funded as of early March, according to reporting

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“Ancient glacial landscapes” inform Toronto Port Lands Bridges by Grimshaw

March 6, 2024 Ben Dreith 0

The New York office of architecture studio Grimshaw has created a series of sleek pre-fabricated bridges that connect Toronto with the Villiers Island urban revitalisation project. Grimshaw Architects completed three bridges for the Port Lands Bridges project – two single-span and one four-span – adding to an initial three-span bridge, which was completed in 2022.

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BIG designs “spherical armadillo” ballpark for Athletics in Las Vegas

March 6, 2024 Ben Dreith 0

Danish architecture studio BIG has designed a baseball stadium in Las Vegas with a massive metal shell and the “largest cable-net glass wall in the world”. Sited on the Las Vegas Strip, the ballpark was designed by BIG in collaboration with engineering firm HNTB for Major League Baseball team the Athletics (The As), which is

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Construction commences on SOM skyscrapers at former Chicago Spire site

March 5, 2024 Ben Dreith 0

American developer Related Midwest has resumed construction on the 400 Lake Shore skyscraper in Chicago on a site that has experienced more than a decade’s worth of revisions and delays. Construction teams in Chicago have begun work on the foundation for the 72-storey skyscraper designed by SOM. Images show workers filling the giant foundation hole that

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Foster + Partners set to redesign New York transit terminal around central atrium

March 1, 2024 Ben Dreith 0

UK architecture studio Foster + Partners has released designs for a renovation of the Midtown Bus Terminal in Manhattan that unifies different transport hubs into a single building. Foster + Partners is designing a new complex for the Midtown Bus Terminal that unites the bus and subway services connected to the station, in collaboration with Chicago-based

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Page Southerland Page adds weathering-steel extension to museum in Texas’s high desert

February 26, 2024 Ben Dreith 0

US studio Page Southerland Page has added a Corten-steel addition to a museum in Texas that complements a historical structure and was designed to look like “a chunk of landscape”. Located on an elevated site that looks down over the town of Alpine in East Texas, the extension to the Museum of the Big Bend

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BIG unveils interlocking EPIQ skyscraper in Quito designed as “buildings within a building”

February 22, 2024 Ben Dreith 0

Danish architecture studio BIG has completed the EPIQ tower in Ecuador, which consists of L-shaped stacked blocks that curve as they meet at the structure’s centre. EPIQ, which was created by BIG in partnership with Quito-based developers Uribe Schwarzkopf, is located next to La Carolina Park, an urban green space in the centre of the

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Burning Man 2024 temple design balances the “domestic and majestic”

February 21, 2024 Ben Dreith 0

A team led by artist Caroline Ghosn has unveiled the design of this year’s Burning Man temple, a structure combining elements of church architecture and Lebanese weaving techniques. Called Temple of Together, the structure will rise more than 70 feet (21 metres) above the desert landscape of the annual Burning Man festival in Nevada. Ghosn

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BIG completes staggered “bundle of towers” in Houston

February 15, 2024 Ben Dreith 0

Danish architecture studio BIG has unveiled 1550 on the Green in Houston, which is the studio’s first skyscraper in the state of Texas. Developed by Skanska USA, the 28-storey skyscraper across from Discovery Green park in Downtown Houston consists of a “bundle” of six towers that curve slightly as they rise, with the tallest of

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SOM puts Department of Transportation “on display” at Cambridge building

February 14, 2024 Ben Dreith 0

American studio SOM has created a “vertical campus” for the US Department of Transportation in Massachusetts that features aluminium fins on its sides and a landscape installation by designer Maya Lin. Completed last year, the James A Volpe National Transportation Center brings all of the US Department of Transportation’s (DOT) operations under one roof in

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