Icon Yunduan Tower, China
Icon Yunduan Tower is a 192-meter-high building located in the city of Chengdu, China. The aim of the project was to create a landmark visible on entering the city. The project is based on a winning entry in an invited architecture competition in 2009. During the design process, what was originally planned as an office tower evolved into a versatile, mixed-use building complex. A shopping center…
MIRA Residential Tower, San Francisco
MIRA, designed by Studio Gang, is a 40-story Residential Tower in the heart of San Francisco, USA. The design responds to the need for dense housing in the city and offers new models of sustainability, all while reinterpreting the city’s architectural traditions. It evolves the classic bay window, a familiar feature of San Francisco’s early houses, reimagining it in a high-rise context. The Bay-inspired design means every residence has an outlook of almost 180 degrees,…
Parc Central Mixed-Use Complex, China
Parc Central is an urban park located in the heart of the Guangzhou’s Central Business District, China. Benoy, in collaboration with Ronald Lu and Partners, was tasked with this large-scale project of developing a unique destination where business and community come together. The result is a distinctive 110,000m2 complex which comprises shopping, entertainment and dining facilities with multi-level parkland. The complex landscape with its varying levels, gardens, planted walkways…
Novotown Cultural and Entertainment Complex, China
Novotown cultural and entertainment complex, located on Hengqin Island, China, is designed by Aedas Group as a tourist destination and local icon. Novotown is built upon the concept of an open palm, symbolizing innovation. The zoning design coincides with the human brain. The left zone represents science and technology; while the right zone represents art and culture. This 120,000-square meter complex features a retail and dining ring, an expansive…
World's Tallest Indoor Waterfall, Singapore Airport
Singapore Changi Airport has cemented its dominance in airport tourism with the opening of its newest dazzling attraction known as the Jewel. The Jewel was designed to reinvent the concourse as a public attraction. Inside there is a lush four-story garden, more than 280 retail, and dining outlets, a hotel, a multi-screen IMAX theater and its centerpiece: a 40 meters height “Rain Vortex”. This integration of nature with engineering…
