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Foster + Partners’ Budapest tower will be built despite city’s new skyscraper ban

August 20, 2018 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Budapest is to introduce a ban on all buildings over 90 metres, but this will not impact Foster + Partners’ plan to build a 120-metre-tall tower, which has already won planning permission. The Hungarian government is introducing a skyscraper ban in order to preserve the skyline of Budapest, said Gergely Gulyás, minister of the prime minister’s

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Dubai’s first skyscraper to be listed in initiative to preserve 1960s and 70s architecture

August 13, 2018 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Dubai’s first skyscraper, first library and a clock tower are all set to be heritage-listed, as the UAE’s largest city looks to preserve the early buildings that shaped its development. Dubai Municipality has launched a programme called Modern Heritage, which aims to protect some of the most significant buildings constructed when the city was first beginning its

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Leopold Banchini sinks rooms and objects beneath office floors in Centre Pompidou installation

August 12, 2018 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Desks, a kitchen and a garden are hidden under raised office floors in this installation created by Swiss architect Leopold Banchini at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Named 3-8, Banchini’s permanent installation is located on the fourth floor of the Centre Pompidou. It will be used by the museum as an educational space to host workshops and talks. Created in collaboration with

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Two giant hands hold up Golden Bridge in Vietnam

August 9, 2018 Tom Ravenscroft 0

A curved golden bridge held up by two giant hands, designed by TA Landscape Architecture, has opened to the public near Da Nang in central Vietnam. The curved golden bridge at the Ba Na Hill Mountain Resorts Da Nang appears to be held up by two stone hands, which are in fact constructed from fibreglass and

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Alan Jones elected as next RIBA president

August 9, 2018 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Northern Irish architect Alan Jones has been elected to become the next president of the Royal Institute of British Architects. Jones, who won 52 per cent of the vote, will replace the current president Ben Derbyshire on 1 September 2019 and hold the position for two years. The architect, founder of Alan Jones Architects, wants

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Zaha Hadid Architects reveals plans for Maltese skyscraper

August 6, 2018 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Zaha Hadid Architects has revealed images of a 31-storey tower, planned for Paceville on the northern coast of Malta. Named Mercury Tower, the building would be eight storeys higher than the nearby 23-floor Portomaso Business Tower – currently the tallest building on the Mediterranean island. The 24,500 square metre tower was designed by the late Zaha Hadid and Patrik Schumacher,

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Huge obelisk marks entrance to Torino Outlet Fashion Village by Claudio Silvestrin Architects

August 6, 2018 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Claudio Silvestrin Architects has completed a shopping outlet in Turin, Italy, that features a 111-metre-high “modern medieval spire”. Built alongside a major road on the outskirts of the city, the Torino Outlet Fashion Village contains 81 shops arranged around two open-air streets. Claudio Silvestrin Architects marked the location of the 32,000-metre-square shopping centre with a

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Henning Larsen builds town hall that bridges a river on the Faroe Islands

August 3, 2018 Tom Ravenscroft 0

The Eysturkommuna Town Hall, designed by Scandinavian firm Henning Larsen, bridges across a river to physically and symbolically connect two formerly separate municipalities on the Faroe Islands. Designed to serve the municipality of Eystur, the town hall is located in the small town of Nordragota on the eastern coast of the Faroe Islands – a self governing archipelago in the North

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Chinese skyscraper incorporates 108-metre high waterfall

July 31, 2018 Tom Ravenscroft 0

New video footage reveals the latest incredible skyscraper being constructed in China, which incorporates a giant waterfall into its facade. Named the Liebian International Building, the 121-metre tall tower in Guiyang, southwest China, has been built to include a dramatic a 108-metre-high water feature. This unique feature is one of the largest artificial waterfalls in the world,

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MAD reveals designs for Yabuli Conference Centre in Chinese mountains

July 30, 2018 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Construction has begun on a sinuous conference centre designed by MAD for the mountainous region of Yabuli in northeast China. Named the Yabuli Conference Centre, the 16,198 square metre venue will become the permanent venue for hosting the annual China Entrepreneur Forum (CEF) event. The four-storey building will contain a large 1,000-seat auditorium, as well as a secondary 350-seat venue

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