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If you’re keeping score at home, will be Kentucky’s largest ever public/private real estate project.
World's Highest Escalator
Located in theUmeda district of Kita-ku, the building was originally conceived in1988 as the "City of Air" project, which planned to create fourinterconnected towers in northern Osaka. Eventually, practicalconsiderations brought the number of towers down to two.
Just a couple more weeks and the FBI will break ground on a new 120,000-square-foot, three-story headquarters building.
Linked Hybrid building
Louisville’s marquis skyscraper—Aegon Center—is now up for sale as part of a three building package deal.
Now, here’s something you don’t see every day… or in this case, ever.
frank gehry's "tancici dum" (dancing building)
This is the Lake Geneva, WI Home Depot:
“Better city: Better Life” by Avery Associates& Sidell Gibson, Event Communications, Fulcrum Consulting, AdamsKara Taylor, DHA Design Services, William Pye, Clyde Malby
Ribbon of Culture by EIGHT: John McAslan +Partners, Brisac Gonzalez, Carmody Groarke, Nord Architecture, ProjectOrange, Surface Architects, Wordsearch, Arup
Our Island by draw Architects & dcmstudios, Graven Images, Ove Arup & Partners Ltd/Arup InternationalConsultants (Shanghai) Co Ltd, Botanical Society Of Scotland
The Network Pavilion by Zaha HadidArchitects, Arup, Metstudio and the Architectural Association School ofArchitecture Curatorial Projects
Building Asia Brick by Brick is an architectural exhibition currently touring China put together by ArtAsiaPacific magazine, People’s Architecture Foundation and LEGO toraise the awareness of architectural preservation in Asia. Theexhibition features the architectural designs of some of Asia’s leadingarchitects, but you won’t find any traditional model building materialshere, each original architectural model is built entirely out of LEGOs.The models will tour the urban hubs of Guangzhou, Shanghai, Beijing andChengdu before being auctioned off in New York in 2008. Inhabitatbrings you highlights of the Shanghai event.
It’s competitor, The Burj Dubai, yet another SOM tower for the people,has already undergone construction and will be between 705 and 950meters, the tallest structure in the world, at least until the Al Burj is built. These towers will beat out the KVLY-TV mast by half, if they reach their maximum projected heights.
High rises have been sprouting all across the region like weeds in a sandbox.
Some of the newest concepts may well be a group of the most definitive examples of gigantism I have seen in the skyscraper world. The Dubai Towers-Dubai (creative name for creative architecture), by Sama Dubai, is one of the most recently unveiled designs.
Before you all get penis envy from looking at all these phalluses sparkling in the desert sun, take a look at the cost of building such gigantic wonders, and check out this slide show. Good thing “the richest 2% of adults in the world own more than half of all household wealth.”
Frank Gehry proposed New World Symphony building
These buildings, under construction on the north side of the Miami River, are modestly titled “Epic.”
Eve Kushner’s November Builder/Architect Magazine column, entitled a Dream World Made Real, introduces the work of seminal architect Eugene Tsui.
Paper has become the material of choice for several sculptors in realizing stunning diverse designs.
The Itinerant Urbanist drives around Boston
Stata in spring
INFINIT STRIP - apartment building
The People’s Building
How many world-famous locations can we play Nintendo’s Game Boy?
from flickr
Massive apartment blocks from around the globe:
The "BuiltEnvironment” award went to Morphosis Architects of Los Angeles for thenaturally ventilated high-rise San Francisco Federal Building.
The"Research and Initiative” award went to Schlaich Bergermann Solar of Stuttgart
Let’s Tap – Architect in A Bottle
