Architecture

Glasgow City Council Develops New Tall-Building Guidance

The City Council in Glasgow, Scotland, has developed a new tall-building guidance that aims to make the city center more "livable, sustainable and diverse" as it grows, STV News reports....

Otis Elevator System for 47-Story Residential Tower Rising in Hell’s Kitchen

Otis tells ELEVATOR WORLD it is providing four SkyRise® and two third-party hydraulic elevators at 550 Tenth Avenue, a 47-story residential tower rising in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, following a fire...

CTBUH 2024 Americas Conference Planned for February

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) 2024 Americas Conference, Future Downtown: Density and Resiliency in American Cities, will be held on February 22-23 in Miami, Florida. The...

YIMBY Reveals New Renderings of Boutique Manhattan Condo Tower

On November 13, New York YIMBY revealed fresh renderings of THE 74, a 32-story residential tower designed by Pelli Clarke Pelli with SLCE Architects and developed by Elad Group at...

Miami High-Rise Office Receives Unanimous Approval

New York-headquartered architectural practice Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF) has announced the approval of Tower 36, a 635-ft luxury office adjacent to Miami, Florida’s Design District. The tallest in the neighborhood,...

Winning Design for Proposed Seoul Tower Opens and Expands Public Realm

NYC-headquartered architecture firm ODA recently won the Creative Innovation Architecture Design Pilot Project for a proposed mixed-use tower in Seoul’s Gangnam District inspired by the concept that “porosity leads to...

Served by Otis VT, NYC’s the Spiral Wins CTBUH and Marks Firsts

Bjarke Ingels Group's (BIG) first supertall and first commercial high rise in NYC, The Spiral on the northern edge of the High Line at 66 Hudson Boulevard, was recently named...

Designs in the Works for London’s Fourth-Tallest Tower

RSHP is working up designs for a “landmark” 240-m-tall, 54-story skyscraper, which would be the Square Mile’s fourth-tallest tower, to replace contractor Multiplex Europe’s headquarters at 99 Bishopsgate in London,...

CTBUH Best Tall Building Europe is Sweden’s Sara Kulturhus

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) named Sara Kulturhus in Skellefteå, Sweden, the Best Tall Building, Europe, as part of CTBUH's 2023 Award of Excellence program at...

BIG Unveils Design for Residential Development in Greece

Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) has revealed the design of Park Rise residences, a new development in the Little Athens neighborhood of Ellinikon, Greece, featuring modern homes, greenspace, retail, office and...