200 Amsterdam Avenue Tower, NYC
“200 Amsterdam Avenue” is designed by Elkus Manfredi as a 21st-century interpretation of the city’s iconic pre-war towers, with interiors by Cetra Ruddy. The 668 feet tall tower is the Tallest Skyscraper on NYC’s Upper West Side. The Art Deco-inspired façade features a mix of glass and masonry, with detailing on the top, and cascading levels on one side to maximize sunlight. The 52-story complex houses 112 expansive condos in…
The Cloud Town Convention and Exhibition Center, China
Typical characters of traditional exhibition centers make them hard to be utilized in any other ways, causing a huge waste of resources invisibly. Even the busiest exhibition centers merely have a usage rate of 40%, meaning that they lie idle at least 200 days a year. The usage rate of most other exhibition centers is below 10%. Therefore, in the process of designing the first stage of Cloud Town Exhibition Center in 2015, Approach Design…
Google North Bayshore Campus, California
Danish firm BIG and London-based Heatherwick Studio plan to redevelop four sites in Mountain View (one of the principal cities of Silicon Valley) to create the Google campus – marking the first time the internet giant has designed and built an office complex from scratch. Silicon Valley has been an engine of innovation driving technological evolution and global economy. So far the majority of these vast intellectual and economical resources have been confined to the…
The Eco-Floating Hotel, Qatar
The Eco-Floating Hotel is a project whose first leg is planned to take place in Qatar but it also has the potential to be located in different areas thanks to its characteristic mobile feature. Designed, by Hayri Atak Architectural Design Studio (HAADS), this eco-floating hotel generates its energy from rotating in the ocean. The rotation action moves slowly so as to not make guests dizzy and takes 24 hours to complete a full turn. Both…
Jockey Club Innovation Tower (JCIT) by ZHA
The Jockey Club Innovation Tower (JCIT) is home to the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) School of Design and the Jockey Club Design Institute for Social Innovation. The JCIT, designed by ZHA, creates a new urban space that enriches the diversity of university life and expresses the dynamism of an institution looking to the future. Located on a narrow, irregular site at the northeastern tip of the university campus, the JCIT is connected to the…
