Category Archives: Skyscrapers

Sky City will be a tower complex that will reach 838 meters and have 220 floors including residential apartments, offices, organic farms, recreation spaces, schools, a hospital, retail space and plenty more, making it an actual vertical city. There will be 4450 apartments inside with surfaces ranging from 645 to 5000 square feet and the building will have 92 elevators. This colossal project will be the tallest tower in the world and it was designed by Broad Sustainable Building (BSB)…

COR is a sustainable mixed-se condominium building, the first of its kind in Miami, Florida and it was designed by the practice of Oppenheim Architecture + Design to feature a highly synergistic combination of architecture, structural engineering and ecology. The structure is located 300 feet above the Design District and its power output is provided through wind turbines, photovoltaic panels and solar hot water generation taking maximum advantage of the sustainable elements to protect the environment as much as possible…

The practice of Wiel Arets Architects designed The Hoge Heren in the city of Rotterdam, The Netherlands as a structure of two residential blocks on the site of an old commercial trade ground in the former Zalmhaven of the city near Erasmusbrug. The complex has 34 floors and it reaches 102 meters in height separated into two towers that host together a number of 290 apartments. The two towers stand on a vertical base that is six stories high and…

The studio of Buro Ole Scheeren released the plans for a pair of towers called “DUO” in the Singapore metropolis which will have a mixed use and a high rise development. Although similar in design they are planned as two autonomous structures but due to their curved facades they also create an impressive effect through the spaces they leave empty. The project is expected to be completed in 2017 and the constructions will begin next year. The building is planned…

The year 2013 is an important year for the city of Marseille since it was named the European Capital of Culture and this also gave an impulse for new projects in the city and new buildings as well. One of these is the H99 tower, a revolutionary building in the Euromediterranee district which combines office spaces with housing and cultural facilities. The name of the tower is quite intuitive, since the height of the tower is 99.9 meters; the building…

The improvement of engineering techniques and materials together with the increasing urbanization make more and more places around the world in need of vertical expansion rather than horizontal. Plus, a tall building also stands as a proud landmark for the city it’s built in, and every time we say a building is the tallest in the world, there probably is another one in design stage waiting to surpass it. Buildings currently in the vertical race are the Makkah Clock Royal…

Located at the top of the Guangzhou International Finance Center in China, the Four Seasons hotel was designed by Wilkinson Eyre Architects in 2010 completing the 440 meters skyscraper with the 33 floors of the luxurious 5 star hotel. The atrium of the hotel is huge, taller than the Statue of Liberty, and the guest rooms are arranged around it being very spacious, modern and offering a perfect view of the Pearl River that runs 103 levels below. The atrium…

Post modernity is all about concepts and the apparent chaos is the aesthetic idea that pushes creators into the new and original. The Beirut Terraces are trying to exemplify the conceptual architecture through a stack-like structure that redefines what we imagine when we think of skyscrapers. The building created by the practice of Herzog & DeMeuron tries to offer an imaginative vertical village with layers of platforms that provide a great view from every floor and minutely designed lofts. The…

This ambitious project was designed by Herreros Arquitectos in the city of Costadel Este, Panama and it provided a challenge for the team due to the condition of it featuring parking spaces above the ground and an unknown number of occupants with separated services. With such requirements the main concern of the designers was to provide the most flexible space they could and the aesthetic focus became secondary although the building provides an attractive façade and overall pattern. The tower…

The multifunctional complex named The City of Capitals is located on plot 9 in the International Business Center Moscow City and offers a symbol of Moscow and St. Petersburg with the two twin skyscrapers. It was completed in 2009 and was designed by the practice of NBBJ and built by Arup for the Capital Group. The Moscow Tower is taller than the Naberezhnaya Tower and it reaches 309.8 meters being the tallest building in Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent…