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As cities grow, their office inventories remain largely stagnant. Yet despite changes to the market—including the impact of hybrid work—opportunities still exist. Enter: “Midlife Metamorphosis.”
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As cities grow, their office inventories remain largely stagnant. Yet despite changes to the market—including the impact of hybrid work—opportunities still exist. Enter: “Midlife Metamorphosis.”
The three-tower 1,030,000-sf office and retail development designed by Graphite Design Group in collaboration with Compton Design Office for Vulcan Real Estate is attracting some of the world’s largest names in tech and hospitality.
As a part of the revitalization of a Seattle neighborhood, Graphite Design Group designed a sustainable mixed-use community that exemplifies resource conversation, transportation synergies, and long-term flexibility.
In Guangzhou, China, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) has designed the recently completed Star River Headquarters to minimize embodied carbon, reduce energy consumption, and create a healthy work environment. The 48-story tower is located in the business district on Guangzhou’s Pazhou Island.
This marks the third consecutive record-breaking year for building completions over 200 meters.
Woodscrapers, the automobile industry's expansion into the tall building development business, and Nairobi's climb toward becoming Africa's skyscraper hub are just a few of the topics CTBUH's 2017 tall building predictions report focuses on.
The Chicago architecture firm won a design competition for the project anticipated to be completed in 2019.
The building was designed by Rafael Viñoly and is scheduled for completion in 2019.
In spite of the ability to build tall and taller buildings—usually fully glazed, often in extreme climates with increasingly smart technologies—it could be argued that we are not similarly “rising to the occasion” in terms of optimization, writes Gensler's Russell Gilchrist.
The 350-meter-high building was designed by Morphosis and will provide over 2 million sf of office and retail space.
The office, designed by CetraRuddy, will be completed in 2017.
The building, designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox and developed by SL Green, will stand 1,401 tall.
The building sits just a few blocks from the LEED-Platinum certified Taipei 101, the world’s eighth tallest building.
Shanghai Tower beat out three other finalists selected from 132 entries from around the world for the award.