Global hotel brand Hyatt has partnered with Xuan Mai Sai Gon Construction Investment Joint Stock Co. to build a 69-story hotel tower in the center of the 34-acre Eco Green Saigon development in District 7 of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Saigoneer reported in December 2019. Designed by Australia’s Plus Architecture, the tower would house…
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Slovakia’s First Skyscraper on Drawing Boards A 168-m-tall tower with 46 above-ground stories is planned by J&T Real Estate on the Danube River in Bratislava, Slovakia, The Slovak Spectator reported. Part of an expansion of the Eurovea mixed-use development, it would be the nation’s first skyscraper. Eurovea 2 would have a total of six structures…
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In December 2019, NYC-based elevator and escalator consulting firm Vertical Systems Analysis (VSA) announced the appointment of its first intern from the prestigious High Technology High School in New Jersey, Derick Cortes. A high school senior, Cortes plans to study civil engineering in college. Cortes is joining the VSA team on site visits and using…
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thyssenkrupp Test Tower Design Revised Updated renderings of the thyssenkrupp Innovation and Qualification Center (IQC), which includes the tallest elevator test tower in the Western Hemisphere (ELEVATOR WORLD, November 2019, May 2019 and September 2018), were revealed in late 2019 by architect Gensler. Rising next to SunTrust Park and The Battery next to Interstate 285,…
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News outlets including the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat and the Boston Herald recently reported on a pair of projects set to transform the Boston South End and Allston neighborhoods. At Albany and East Canton streets in the South End, the Boston Planning and Development Agency (BPDA) greenlit a 5.6-acre, four-building plan from…
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Newgard Development Group and Airbnb, Inc. have teamed up to build Miami’s first Airbnb-branded tower, a 48-story structure with 412 condominiums and 192 hotel rooms, at 190 Northeast Sixth Street downtown, New York Post reported. Scheduled for completion in 2022, Natiivo was designed by local firm Arquitectonica with a large pool deck. More than half…
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Developer Acquires Land for L.A. Megaproject A Chinese developer has acquired the land for Olympia (ELEVATOR WORLD, March and August 2017), a US$1-billion residential/retail megaproject in downtown Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Times reported in December 2019. The developer, City Century, closed on the land purchase about three years after first announcing plans to build…
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Waterfront Plan Includes BIG-designed Towers, Beach Two Trees Management, the team behind redevelopment of the Domino Sugar factory site (ELEVATOR WORLD, April 2014), hopes to redevelop a 3.5-acre piece of land on the Williamsburg waterfront with two, up to 650-ft-tall, mixed-use towers designed by Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) and a six-acre public park with a…
Read More by Ricia Sturgeon-Hendrick My mother always advised, “Don’t make a spectacle of yourself.” But, somehow, spiral escalators just can’t help themselves. They are awe inspiring. Our cover this month is Mitsubishi Electric’s spirals in the new five-story Starbucks in Chicago. In “A Spectacular Ride,” the spiral escalators are the first in the U.S. Midwest, and…
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Michael J. Ryan, vice president of business development at The Peelle Co., sent in these gorgeous green photos of the SHADOW Lake Nature Preserve in Renton, Washington. He said Peelle is a long-term supporter of the preserve, which provides education, preservation and restoration to the Puget Sound community. SHADOW protects more than 100 acres of…
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