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Lalalli Senna designs Brazil’s tallest skyscraper to be “celestial”

September 17, 2024 Ellen Eberhardt 0

Brazilian artist Lalalli Senna has designed the concept for Senna Tower, a 500-metre-tall supertall skyscraper in Brazil set to be the nation’s tallest and “tallest residential tower in the world”, according to its developer. The Senna Tower is planned for Balneário Camboriú, a city in Brazil’s Santa Catarina state that is known for its skyscraper-lined

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Shigeru Ban wins 2024 Praemium Imperiale for architecture

September 10, 2024 Starr Charles 0

Japanese architect Shigeru Ban has been named the architecture laureate for this year’s Praemium Imperiale awards by the Japan Art Association. The Praemium Imperiale is an annual global arts prize that celebrates creatives in the fields of architecture, painting, sculpture, music, theatre and film. Ban, who leads architecture studio Shigeru Ban Architects, was selected for

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True Joy named Dulux Colour of the Year 2025

September 10, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

Paint brand Dulux has revealed an “uplifting” bright yellow colour called True Joy as its Colour of the Year for 2025. True Joy was chosen for its bold and sunny disposition that adds a sense of cheerfulness to interiors, according to Dulux. “Dulux Colour of the Year 2025 True Joy is an uplifting yellow – a bright

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“Tallest tower in Nebraska” under construction in Omaha

September 9, 2024 Ellen Eberhardt 0

Construction is underway on a 206-metre-high skyscraper by US architecture studio Pickard Chilton in Nebraska, which is set to be the state’s tallest when completed. Located in Omaha, the 44-storey skyscraper will be the new corporate headquarters of insurance company Mutual of Omaha and is set to be the tallest skyscraper in Nebraska and neighbouring

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SANAA’s Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa win Le Prix Charlotte Perriand

September 9, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

SANAA founders Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa have been named the recipients of Le Prix Charlotte Perriand for 2025 by the Créateurs Design Association & Awards. Sejima and Nishizawa were chosen as the year’s winners for being “at the forefront of architectural innovation” and in recognition of their “minimalist yet profound designs”, said Créateurs Design

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SANAA’s Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa win Le Prix Charlotte Perriand

September 9, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

SANAA founders Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa have been named the recipients of Le Prix Charlotte Perriand for 2025 by the Créateurs Design Association & Awards. Sejima and Nishizawa were chosen as the year’s winners for being “at the forefront of architectural innovation” and in recognition of their “minimalist yet profound designs”, said Créateurs Design

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Grenfell Tower Inquiry concludes that architect “bears a very significant degree of responsibility”

September 4, 2024 Nat Barker 0

The architecture studio that refurbished Grenfell Tower has been excoriated in the final report of the long-running public inquiry into a devastating fire at the building in 2017. London-based Studio E was determined to have “demonstrated a cavalier attitude to the regulations affecting fire safety” during its work on the project, which included the installation

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One Za’abeel voted best skyscraper of the past year by Dezeen readers

September 3, 2024 Nat Barker 0

Japanese studio Nikken Sekkei’s skyscraper in Dubai with a 230-metre-long skybridge has pipped BIG’s first supertall to be named Dezeen readers’ favourite new skyscraper. To mark World Skyscraper Day today, we invited readers to vote for the best tall building completed in the past year from a shortlist of 10 that included projects by Snøhetta,

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Porsche reveals plans for first residential tower in Asia

September 2, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

German car brand Porsche has unveiled the design for its third residential high-rise building, Porsche Design Tower Bangkok, which it describes as an “architectural masterpiece”. The brand’s luxury goods company, Porsche Design, worked with real estate company Ananda Development on the luxury apartment block in Thailand’s capital city. Once complete, the 95-metre-tall building will be Porsche’s

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Mould growing on Toyo Ito-designed “largest wooden building in Asia”

August 30, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

Mould is growing on Gaia, a mass-timber business school in Singapore that was completed last year for the Nanyang Technological University by Japanese architect Toyo Ito and Singapore-based studio RSP Architects. Nanyang Technological University (NTU) claimed the 43,500-square-metre school was “the largest wooden building in Asia” in terms of the volume of timber used when it

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