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Bureau Proberts wraps Brisbane tower in a slatted screen

January 29, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Walan by Bureau Proberts in Brisbane, Australia

This 14-storey riverside residential block in Brisbane, named Walan, is conceived as a stack of traditional Queenslander residences with characteristic 360-degree verandas. Bureau Proberts designed the block so that each apartment would have a similar connection with nature that a traditional Queenslander house provides. Each of the apartments occupy an entire floor, and are wrapped

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Metropolitan Workshop covers tower of modular homes with glazed ceramic tiles

January 15, 2019 India Block 0
Mapleton Crescent by Metropolitan Workshop

Metropolitan Workshop’s tower of small modular homes in London is covered in a “chameleon-style” facade of glazed terracotta that changes colour in the different light conditions. The London-based architecture studio designed Mapleton Crescent in Wandsworth, a 27-storey tower on a small plot of land, for specialist tiny home developer Pocket Living. A constrained triangular site of just 476-square-metres and

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Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill reveals design for China’s tallest skyscraper

January 14, 2019 Lizzie Crook 0
China's tallest building: Shenzhen-Hong Kong International Center by Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture

Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill has unveiled its design for the Shenzhen-Hong Kong International Center, a 700-metre tall glass tower in Shenzhen, China. The megatall skyscraper is set to become the tallest building in China, and the world’s third tallest building behind SOM’s 828-metre Burj Khalifa in Dubai and the 1,000 metre high Jeddah Tower, which is under construction in Saudi

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Taipei Twin Towers by MVRDV will be “a Times Square for Taiwan”

January 10, 2019 Lizzie Crook 0
Taipei Twin Towers proposal by MVRDV

MVRDV has unveiled designs for a pair of towers in Taipei, Taiwan, which will be made from stacks of misaligned blocks wrapped in interactive screens. Named Taipei Twin Towers, the 337 and 280-metres-tall skyscrapers have been designed by MVRDV in collaboration with CHY Architecture Urban Landscape to revitalise the central station area in the capital’s Zhongzheng district. The buildings

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KPF unveils scrolling supertall Tel Aviv skyscraper that will be Israel’s tallest building

January 4, 2019 India Block 0
Azieli Tower by KPF

Kohn Pedersen Fox has designed the Azrieli Tower, a 340-metre-high supertall skyscraper for Tel Aviv that will be the tallest building in Israel. Shaped like an unfurling scroll, the tower will have a spiralling glass facade that narrows in stages towards the pinnacle. At the top of the supertall skyscraper a viewing area will be

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Belvedere Tower is a top-heavy cross-shaped Dutch apartment block

December 23, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0
Belvedere tower in the Netherlands by René van Zuuk Architekten

Dutch architect René van Zuuk has completed an apartment building in the town of Hilversum featuring a cross-shaped plan that expands as it rises to accommodate more living units on the upper storeys. The Belvedere Tower is surrounded by four-storey postwar apartment blocks and is positioned at the end of a cluster of 1980s modernist

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