Super-tall, super-skinny, super-expensive: the ‘pencil towers’ of New York’s super-rich
An extreme concentration of wealth in a city where even the air is for sale has produced a new breed of needle-like tower. By Oliver Wainwright
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City of London’s third tallest skyscraper, The Diamond, revealed
Tower will be able to accommodate more than 6,000 workers with free public viewing gallery
Why wood is back at the top of the tree for architects
Strong, clean and versatile, engineered timber is the ‘new concrete’. With wooden skyscrapers in the offing, could it be the answer to the global housing crisis?
The vertical forest concept popularized in Milan is brought to Nanjing, China
A breath of fresh air: First ambitious Vertical Forest project is raising in Nanjing. Not only will the sustainable urbanization project be the first in China, but in all of Asia. A total amount of 1100 trees from 23 local species and 2500 cascading plants and shrubs will cover a 6.000 sqm area of the … Read more
Londoners back limit on skyscrapers as fears for capital’s skyline grow
With more than 400 high-rises planned, major survey shows residents want numbers curbed
Futuristic green skyscrapers to reduce 75% of Paris’ greenhouse gas emissions by 2050
2050 Paris Smart City by Vincent Callebaut Architectures. “2050 Paris Smart City” is a research and development project for Paris City Hall carried out by Vincent Callebaut Architectures. In order to fight against the urban heat-island phenomenon by increasing in the same time the density of the city in the long-term, the study presented 8 … Read more