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  • Skyscraper under an inclination

    Skyscraper under an inclination

    Capital Gate in Dubai

    The main figures of this project — height of 160 metres, the budget of 1 336 million euro. Besides it, the tower is obviously inclined to effects. Capital Gate, the project of bureau RMJM on 4 degrees have overtaken the well-known tower in Pisa (18 degrees of an inclination against 14).

    Art Tower in Dubai

    Art project in DubaiThe developer of the project is international exhibition company Abu Dhabi (Abu Dhabi National Exhibitions Company (ADNEC).

    “Capital Gate — fine result of a combination of accurate vision, creativity and adaptability to manufacture of the engineering decision. I am very happy with process and would like to express gratitude to all people involved in an embodiment of this surprising project during a life”, — the operating director of group ADNEC speaks Simon Horgan.

    Tony Archibold from RMJM has declared, that the technologies applied in the given project, were not applied still anywhere and never in the world.

    In a tower hotel Hyatt 5* which will offer visitors of 189 numbers, and also office areas will be located. On 18th floor of a tower it will be placed tea with an open terrace and pool, with a kind on a city and a gulf.

    That the building has sustained a non-standard inclination, it is placed on a concrete facade by depth of 2,1 metres; the design represents architectural system in the form of a steel diagonal lattice, which leaves in the earth on 30 metres to provide stability to winds, gravitational and seismic.

    Great Gate of Capital

    Tower in Dubai

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  • The Highest Tower of the World

    The Highest Tower of the World
    Burj Dubai

    Burj Dubai Skyscraper

    Form Burj Dubai reminds a stalagmite. A huge stalagmite. According to Wiki, since May, 19th, 2008 this highest construction in the world, from all existing and ever the existing.

    The Kilometer Skyscraper

    The exact definitive height of a structure is still unknown, and estimated makes 818 meters (more than 160 floors). We suggest you to look at Dubai even above than from height of the bird's flight and will present, what will be a shade from this almost kilometer giant.

    VIA «The Highest Tower of the World»

  • Aqua Tower by Studio Gang

    Aqua Tower by Studio Gang
    New Aqua Tower

    Aqua Tower (Chicago)

    Each skyscraper in Chicago is continuation of History of Skyscrapers which has begun for a city in 1885 with building Home Insurance Building. "Tower" in height of 42 meters (plus two floors have been completed in 1891, having finished height to 50 meters) became the first-ever building exceeding level in five floors. New Aqua Tower — height of 250 meters, the sculptural facade of a structure creating illusion of waves is unique.

    The Unique Architectural Structure

    Calcareous rocks, characteristic for area of Great Lakes became a prototype of a wavy facade.
    Such architectural decision it has not only visual value, and is functional; waves are used as viewing platforms, and also a shadow veil.
    Building parameters; 82 floors, 250 meters in height, 215 hotel rooms (with 1 on 18 floor), 476 apartments (with 19 on 52 floor), 5,100 sq. m. trading and office areas, an underground parking, a 8-storeyed cellar a total area of 32,000 sq. m., a terrace with gardens, pools, arbors, paths for walks and run.

    The New Aqua Tower

    Aqua Tower
    New tower in Chicago
    Skyscraper in Chicago

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  • Norman Foster has become interested in lunar architecture

    Norman Foster has become interested in lunar architecture

    Norman Foster

    Bureau Foster + Partners, the well-known British architect, will take part in the program on studying of prospects of building of buildings on the Moon. Details of the project do not disclose, but, according to edition Building Magazine, bureau Foster + Partners will be engaged in studying of the materials existing on the Moon and Mars and potentially suitable for building.

    The project will be a part of the big program "Aurora" of the European Space Agency. The representative of a bureau has informed, that a certain tender is provided, but on details to make comments has refused.

    Spaceport for Virgin Galactic

    The Guardian reminds, that Foster + Partners is engaged in designing of the first-ever private spaceport by request of company Virgin Galactic. Spaceport should open in 2011 in desert in the State of New Mexico.

    The well-known architectural bureau

    Norman Foster — the winner of every possible architectural awards, architectural bureau Foster + Partners was engaged in the project such known constructions, as: a covered court yard of the British museum, reconstruction Reichstag in Berlin, Hurst's tower in New York, the London skyscraper.

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  • The Architectural Chinese Greatness

    The Architectural Chinese Greatness
    Urban Forest

    The Architectural Heap

    In the modern world you are surprised — as architects of the past could build approximately in one style, according to the general mood of an epoch, and consider it as art?

    The original architectural project

    In Competition on Originality there was a new applicant. Peking bureau MAD has offered the skyscraper project on which each floor gardens will blossom.
    The basic feature of a design — not at height, and on horizontal saturation. The tower represents a heap of the floors, one on another where each layer will shift aside, thus creating open space for a patio and gardens. A 385-metre tower name Urban Forest.

    Urban Forest in China
    Urban in China
    Urban project
    Art architecture in China
    Design concept

    Art Architecture in China

    By the end of 2009 year architects plan to finish work on the design concept. The tower becomes the third studio in a portfolio. The studio offers new directions for development of city architecture in China. Namely actualization of ecologically steady multiplane structures which would return the nature in cities. The city of Chongking became the fourth on size a city of China in 1997.

    VIA «The Architectural Chinese Greatness»