Selene Tower by Norman Foster, NY
Foster + Partners takes to Midtown Manhattan with the design of ‘Selene,’ a luxury condominium tower. The neighborhood marks the epicenter for luxury living in New York. Formally, it responds to the precedent set by two neighboring twentieth-century Modernist icons – SOM’s 21-storey Lever House of 1952 and Mies van der Rohe’s 38-story Seagram Building of 1958. Within the tower, apartments range from one-bedrooms to a duplex full-floor penthouse. Each opens up with lofty, eleven-foot-high…
ME Dubai Hotel (The Opus) by Zaha Hadid
The ME Dubai at the Opus is the only hotel in the world that can claim to have had both its exterior and interiors designed by the late Zaha Hadid. Set in Dubai's Burj Khalifa district, the Opus is a mirrored glass building occupied by a hotel, offices, serviced apartments and several restaurants. The ME Dubai hotel, which opened in March 2020, has 74 bedrooms and 19 suites. The…
Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, USA
Located in downtown Kansas City, the Kauffman Center serves as a catalyst for social, educational, and economic vitality in the city and the region. Composed of a proscenium theater and concert hall, Kauffman Center takes advantage of the topography. The two halls are connected by a single grand foyer in the form of an expansive glazed porch contained by glass, offering sweeping views outward over the city to the south. The curved, segmented northern walls…
5 Airports Taking-Off by 2025
Today, more 3.5 billion passengers travel by plane each year - equivalent to half of our planet’s population. As a result, destinations around the world are under pressure to expand their existing facilities or to construct large new hubs. With state-of-the-art facilities, automated systems, artificial intelligence, vast construction project teams and designs from some of the world’s leading architects, this is a new age of airport design. BEIJING DAXING INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT China Designed by…
Dramatic Skybridges; Architecture Trick to Show Off in Skyscraper Projects
Bridge structures that span buildings high up in mid-air are now a common trick for architects to show off in skyscraper projects. Among the earliest examples is the famous Bridge of Sighs in Venice, which was completed in 1600, but skybridges have become increasingly common and ambitious in recent years thanks to advances in engineering technology. Below are 12 of the most arresting contemporary skybridges around the world: DJI Sky City by Foster +…
