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ACDF builds Panorama retirement home for “sophisticated seniors” on outskirts of Montreal

August 26, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0

Montreal firm ACDF Architecture has designed a 30-storey tower to accommodate elderly housing in Quebec featuring interiors that are more akin to a boutique hotel. The firm completed the project called Panorama in Laval, a city that is about a 40-minute drive from Montreal, Canada. It comprises a slender residential tower and a two-storey linear volume

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Filtration Skyscrapers in the oceans could “solve environmental and energy problems” around the world

August 16, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0

Architectural designer and visualiser Honglin Li has proposed deploying floating high-rise waste-to-energy plants fuelled by plastic waste to clean up the oceans while generating electricity. The sci-fi proposal, called Filtration Skyscraper, imagines placing unmanned towers on abandoned oil rigs in parts of the oceans where plastic waste accumulates. Sophisticated machinery in the conceptual towers would

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“I didn’t expect to build in Manhattan” says Álvaro Siza

July 24, 2019 Eleanor Gibson 0

In this exclusive video interview, Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza Viera discusses his first building in the US, a luxury condominium tower in New York City. Speaking to Dezeen in New York, the 86-year-old architect said that he did not imagine he would ever receive such a commission. “I didn’t expect to build in Manhattan,” he

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MAD’s first European building nears completion in Paris

July 22, 2019 Lizzie Crook 0

A sinuous facade of stepped terraces envelops MAD’s UNIC apartment tower, which is nearing completion in Paris, France. Developed in collaboration with local studio Biecher Architectes, the 13-storey residential building will become MAD’s first completed project in Europe. The block is wrapped in balconies that will be fitted with planters to double as “raised gardens”

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Piero Lissoni-designed residences to feature in Vancouver’s new Oakridge community

July 3, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0

Piero Lissoni Palazzi at Oakridge by Westbank

Canadian firm Henriquez Partners Architects has designed 10 tree-topped towers and a sprawling park to form a new mixed-use development on a suburban parcel of Vancouver. Developers Westbank enlisted Henriquez Partners Architects to transform the site of a shopping mall into the new 4.5 million-square-foot (420,000-square-metre) community. Called Oakridge, the complex will comprise 10 residential

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World’s tallest modular tower is now Clement Canopy in Singapore

July 2, 2019 India Block 0

Construction company Bouygues Bâtiment International has built Clement Canopy, a pair of 140-metre-high made from prefabricated concrete modules.

Construction company Bouygues Bâtiment International has built Clement Canopy, a pair of 140-metre-high towers made of prefabricated concrete modules. Bouygues Bâtiment International claims the development in Singapore has set a new record for the tallest modular tower. Previously the title had been held by George Street, a 135-metre tower built in Croydon, England, by Tide

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SOM completes double-cantilevered Manhattan Loft Gardens tower

July 2, 2019 India Block 0

SOM completes Manhattan Loft Gardens tower

Manhattan Loft Gardens is a 143-metre-high tower with two cantilevers designed by Skidmore Owings & Merrill that overlooks London’s 2012 Olympic Games park. Skidmore Owings & Merrill (SOM) engineered the concrete and steel frame so that it could accommodate three sky-gardens notched into the 42-storey building. Most of the floors of Manhattan Loft Gardens are

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Pelli Clarke Pelli unveils folded glass One Congress tower in Boston

June 28, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0

Pelli Clarke Pelli has revealed plans to build an office tower in Boston with a folded glass facade that resembles a “dramatic theatrical curtain”. Designed by Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects, the Connecticut firm behind San Francisco’s Salesforce Tower, the building is set to rise 611 feet (186m metres) and feature a curved glass shell that

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Balconies branch out from Sou Fujimoto’s tree-like tower in Montpellier

June 20, 2019 Lizzie Crook 0

L'Arbre Blanc by Sou Fujimoto, Nicolas Laisné, Dimitri Roussel and OXO Architectes.

Balconies fan out like leaves from the mixed-use L’Arbre Blanc tower, which Sou Fujimoto has completed in Montpellier with Nicolas Laisné, Dimitri Roussel and OXO Architectes. Modelled on the shape of a tree, the curved 17-storey building contains 113 apartments with cantilevering balconies, alongside publicly accessible facilities on the ground floor and rooftop. This layout

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OMA completes stepped glass tower The Avery in San Francisco

June 18, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0

Architecture firm OMA has completed its first project on America’s West Coast: a glass condo tower in San Francisco with stepped corners. The Avery is a 56-storey condominium tower located four blocks from San Francisco Bay. OMA partners Shohei Shigematsu and Jason Long designed the 600-foot-high (183-metre-high) building for developer Related, with the aim to

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