The “Phare” of Paris was unveiled in the French capital: the 300-meter high tower designed by Thom Mayne (Morphosis) will become the tallest commercial building in the city since the Eiffel Tower construction. The skyscraper will rise in the neighborhood of La Defense and cost nearly 900 milion euros, comprising around 130.000 sqm of office […]
New Tokyo Tower, designed by Tadao Ando with the sculptor Kiichi Sumikawa, was unveiled on November 24th, 2006. The inauguration of the tower, that will transmit radio and digital television signals, is scheduled for 2011. Beign 610-meter high, it will become the tallest skyscraper in the world, dethroning 553-meter high CN Tower in Toronto [cbc.ca […]
Australia > For their Pirates Bay House Stuart Tanner Architects took advantage from the peculiarities of an uncomfortable site and translated two opposite attitudes toward the landscape: the dramatic gesture of facing the sea and, otherwise, the almost mimic integration within the surrounding nature. The light galvanized steel structure hangs over the car access road. […]