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Safdie Architects to add fourth tower to Marina Bay Sands resort in Singapore

April 10, 2019 Lizzie Crook 0

Marina Bay Sands resort expansion by Safdie Architects

Safdie Architects has revealed its plans to extend its Marina Bay Sands hotel in Singapore by adding a fourth tower. The new stand-alone tower will contain more hotel rooms and take cues from the existing glass buildings, which were completed by Safdie Architects on Marina Bay in 2011. Alongside the tower, the studio will also design a new entertainment

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Dorte Mandrup wins approval for tallest tower in western Europe

April 3, 2019 India Block 0

Dorte Mandrup designs Bestseller Tower, the tallest building in Western Europe

At 320-metres-high the Bestseller Tower, designed by Danish firm Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter for the small town of Brande in Denmark, will be the tallest in western Europe. Planning permission was granted for the supertall skyscraper in March 2019, with completion scheduled for 2023. Bestseller Tower will be taller than the Shard, the 307.5-metre-high tower designed

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The Tulip is “inevitably controversial” says Norman Foster as tower approved

April 2, 2019 India Block 0

The Tulip by Foster + Partners has been approved by the City of London planning committee

Norman Foster says the The Tulip will become a “symbol in it’s own right” as the controversial 305.3-metre-high tourist attraction is approved by City of London. Foster + Partner’s design for The Tulip, a concrete shaft topped by glass viewing platforms complete with slides and rotating pods, has been waived through by the City of

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Paul de Vroom Architecten + Sputnik completes pair of Dutch towers in Moscow

March 27, 2019 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Dutch House by Paul de Vroom Architecten + Sputnik

Dutch House is a pair of brick apartment blocks in Moscow designed by Rotterdam studio Paul de Vroom Architecten + Sputnik to directly reference the architecture of the Amsterdam School. The 19- and 20-storey towers, which contain 360 apartments, were designed to stand out from the blocks that surround them in western Moscow’s District 75. To do this the

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Mjøstårnet in Norway becomes world’s tallest timber tower

March 19, 2019 India Block 0

Mjøstårnet by Voll Arkitekter in Brumunddal, Norway, has been verified as the world’s tallest timber building by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat. The 85.4-metre-high tower was built using cross-laminated timber (CLT), a pioneering material that allows architects to build tall buildings from sustainable wood. It has taken the title of world’s tallest

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Brick archways topped by rounded glass tower at Arc by Koichi Takada Architects

March 18, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

Koichi Takada Architects has designed a podium fronted with brick archways as the base of the glass and steel Arc tower in Sydney, Australia. The mixed-use scheme for developer Crown Group is in a historic area of Sydney’s central business district. Local firm Koichi Takada Architects combined old and new styles with a robust, arched brick

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Record-breaking 541 skyscrapers proposed for London as planning approvals soar

March 7, 2019 India Block 0

The number of new tall buildings planned for London has gone up to 541 thanks to a surge in planning approvals, according to research from New London Architecture. The New London Architecture (NLA) London Tall Buildings Survey 2018 reports that tall buildings are becoming the new normal for the UK capital. The annual survey, released this week, recorded a six

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Stefano Boeri designs Tirana Vertical Forest in Albanian capital

March 1, 2019 India Block 0

Tirana Veritical Forest Albania by Stefano Boeri

Italian architect Stefano Boeri has designed a vertical forest tower for Tirana, Albania, which will be planted with colourful and scented flowers and herbs. Named the Tirana Vertical Forest, the tower with a glass facade punctuated with fragrant planted balconies, will be one of Stefano Boeri Architetti’s signature vertical forest towers. Vertical forests are buildings that are

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Sky Trees tower proposed for Los Angeles takes cues from redwoods and Marilyn Monroe

February 14, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0

Australian firm Koichi Takada Architects has unveiled a slatted timber tower for Los Angeles, featuring a splayed bottom that draws on Marilyn Monroe’s “flying skirt” moment. Koichi Takada Architects has proposed the mixed-use Sky Trees development for 1111 South Hill Street in Downtown LA. It comprises two towers – one planned to reach 70 storeys and

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Burj Jumeira supertall skyscraper will rise from fingerprint of Dubai’s ruler

February 11, 2019 Lizzie Crook 0

Visuals have been released of Burj Jumeira, a 550-metre-tall split-volume skyscraper in Dubai that will rise from a lake shaped like the fingerprint of the emirate’s ruler. Unveiled by state-owned Dubai Holding, the supertall skyscraper has been dubbed as the “new icon in Dubai’s skyline”, however its architect has not been disclosed. It will be located on the city’s waterfront

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