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• Architects

  Coop Himmelb(l)au

• Location

  Lyon, France

• Project Year

  2014

• Photographs

  Courtesy of COOP HIMMELB(L)AU, Hubert Canet, Balloïde

• Area

  46476.0 m2

• Architects

  Fran Silvestre Arquitectos

• Location

  Madrid, Spain

• Architect in Charge

  Fran Silvestre, Jordi Martínez, María José Sáez

• Collaborator Architect

  Fran Ayala, Ángel Fito

• Area

  95803.0 sqm

• Photographs

  Diego Opazo, Courtesy of Fran Silvestre Arquitectos

• Location

  Madrid, Spain

• Photographs

  Diego Opazo, Fran Silvestre Arquitectos

• Area

  95803.0 m2

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The King Abdullah Financial District (KAFD) is a new 55-million-square-foot mixed-use urban community in Riyadh. Among its public buildings under construction is FXFOWLE Architects’ Museum of the Built Environment (MOBE), which explores the role of social, economic, and environmental issues in the development of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the larger region. The museum will exhibit works related to the history of the arts and architecture on the Arabian peninsula, as well as document trends in sustainable thinking and their role in the future of the built environment. The museum puts the traditionally private culture of Saudi Arabia on display, creating a building for residents and visitors.

On the twelfth anniversary of September 11th, we would like to share with you this incredible time-lapse capturing the progress of the One World Trade Center between 2004 and 2013. The 1,776 foot tall skyscraper, which is expected to be the tallest in Western Hemisphere, topped out earlier this year and is slated for completion in 2014.

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• Architects

  OFIS Architects

• Location

  Barysaw, Belarus

• Architects in Charge

  Rok Oman, Spela Videcnik

• Project Team

  Rok Gerbec, Janez Martincic, Andrej Gregoric, Konstantine Bogoslavsky, Janja Del Linz, Katja Aljaz, Ana Kosi, Ieva Cicenaite, Grzegorz Ostrowski, Filip Knapczyk, Sergio Silva Santos, Lorna jackson, Patrycja Majewska, Rita Dolmany, Dusan Chobor

• Area

  6108.0 sqm

• Project Year

  2013

• Photographs

  Courtesy of OFIS Architects, Rok Gerbec

• Location

  Barysaw, Belarus

• Project Year

  2013

• Photographs

  Courtesy of OFIS Architects, Rok Gerbec

• Area

  6108.0 m2

• Architects

  Dieguez Fridman

• Location

  Avenida Dorrego 1711, Buenos Aires, Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, Argentina

• Project Architects

  Axel Fridman, Tristan Dieguez, Pablo Roveran

• Structures

  AHFSA Ing. Alberto Fainstein

• Project Area

  1950.0 m2

• Project Year

  2013

• Photography

  Dieguez Fridman

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On schedule to be China’s tallest and the world’s second tallest skyscraper, the Gensler -designed Shanghai Tower has topped out at 632 meters (2,074 feet). Upon completion in 2014, the spiraling megastructure will complete a trio of towers - including the adjacent Jin Mao Tower and Shanghai World Financial Center - to become the centerpiece of the city’s Lujiazui commercial district - one of Asia’s leading financial centers which developed from farmland in just over 20 years.

Defined by series of distinctive sky gardens, the state-of-the-art tower will house Class-A office and retail space, along with a luxury hotel and cultural venues. 

Continue reading to learn how the Shanghai Tower’s structure saved millions and why it will achieve LEED Gold.

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• Architects

  luis vidal + arquitectos

• Location

  Heathrow Airport Terminal 3, Heathrow Airport (LHR), Longford, London, Middlesex TW6 1QG, UK

• Team

  O.T. Ferrovial Agroman, Fhecor, Cg Proyectos, Solventa, Hoare Lea Consulting, Davis Langdon Schumann Smith, Warrington Fire Research, Reef Associates, Siemens- Vanderlande, Immodo, Carma, Euroestudios, Merebrook, Fractal, Gleeds

• Project Year

  2014

• Photographs

  Courtesy of LHR Airports Limited

• Area

  210000.0 m2

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• Architects

  Overland Partners

• Location

  Dallas, TX

• Design Team

  Tim Blonkvist-FAIA (Principal in Charge), Jim Shelton-AIA, , Scott Adams, Bess Swantner, Brad Bailey-AIA, Adam Bush-AIA, Steve Bellanger

• Consultants

  Project Cost Resources, Blum Consulting Engineers, EJES, Jaster Quintanilla (JQ), Lam Partners, 4B Technology, Hughes Associates, WJHW.

• Contractor

  Beck

• Area

  108000.0 ft2

• Project Year

  2010

• Photographs

  Jeffrey Totaro

• Location

  Dallas, TX

• Project Year

  2010

• Photographs

  Jeffrey Totaro

• Area

  108000.0 ft2

+ 19

• Architects

  Ricardo Carvalho + Joana Vilhena Arquitectos

• Location

  Douro, 3260 Figueiró dos Vinhos, Portugal

• Design Team

  Joana Vilhena, Ricardo Carvalho, José Roque, José Maria Rhodes Sérgio and Nuno Gaspar

• Structural Consultants

  Multilayer

• Mechanical, Hydraulic and Electricity Consultants

  Multilayer and Sunductil

• Building Contractor

  Figueiredo & Figueiredo Lda.

• Area

  1600.0 sqm

• Project Year

  2012

• Photographs

  Nuno Gaspar

• Location

  Douro, 3260 Figueiró dos Vinhos, Portugal

• Project Year

  2012

• Photographs

  Nuno Gaspar

• Area

  1600.0 m2

+ 19

• Architects

  Kokaistudios

• Location

  Shanghai, China

• Design Team

  Andrea Destefanis, Filippo Gabbiani, Pietro Peyron, Li Wei, Carmen Lee, Wang Yun, Coco Cheng

• Local Architect

  Tong Ji Architecture Design Research Institute

• Area

  35500.0 sqm

• Project Year

  2013

• Photographs

  Charlie Xia

• Location

  Shanghai, China

• Project Year

  2013

• Photographs

  Charlie Xia

• Area

  35500.0 m2

• Architects

  Studio Libeskind

• Location

  Wuhan, China

• Architect Of Record

  Zhong Nan Design Institute

• Contractor

  G.C Wisco Construction

• Area

  7240.0 sqm

• Photographs

  Courtesy of Studio Daniel Libeskind

• Location

  Wuhan, China

• Photographs

  Studio Daniel Libeskind

• Area

  7240.0 m2

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+ 8

• Architects

  Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

• Location

  Riyadh Saudi Arabia

• Project Year

  2013

• Photographs

  Courtesy of SOM

• Area

  890000.0 ft2

+ 9

• Architects

  VTN Architects

• Location

  Đồng Nai, Vietnam

• Principal Architects

  Vo Trong Nghia, Takashi Niwa, Masaaki Iwamoto

• Project Team

  Tran Thi Hang, Kuniko Onishi

• Area

  3800.0 sqm

• Project Year

  2013

• Photographs

  Hiroyuki Oki

• Location

  Đồng Nai, Vietnam

• Project Year

  2013

• Photographs

  Hiroyuki Oki

• Area

  3800.0 m2

Videos

• Architects

  Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners

• Location

  London, United Kingdom

• Structural Engineer

  Arup

• Landscape Architect

  Edco Design London

• Client

  The British Land Company plc

• Area

  84424.0 sqm

• Project Year

  2013

• Photographs

  Courtesy of Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, Courtesy of The Leadenhall Building Development Company

• Location

  London, UK

• Project Year

  2013

• Photographs

  Courtesy of Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, Courtesy of The Leadenhall Building Development Company

• Area

  84424.0 m2

Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners’ Leadenhall Building became the tallest building in the City of London when it topped out on June 18th. The 50 story tower opposite Lloyd’s of London rises to a height of 224.5 meters 802 feet), its slender form creating its own distinctive profile within an emerging cluster London. The building’s tapering profile is prompted by a requirement to respect views of St Paul’s Cathedral, in particular from Fleet Street. The building comprises a number of distinct architectural elements that provide clarity to the composition both as a whole and as a legible expression of its constituent parts. These elements include the primary stability structure, the ladder frame, the office floor plates, the northern support core, the external envelope and the public realm.

More images and video of The Leadenhall Building after the break...

• Architects

  NRJA

• Design Team

  Uldis Lukševics, Ivars Veinbergs, Linda Leitāne-Šmīdberga

• Area

  120.0 sqm

• Project Year

  2013

• Photographs

  Courtesy of NRJA

• Project Year

  2013

• Photographs

  NRJA

• Area

  120.0 m2

Last year interdisciplinary architecture firm Höweler + Yoon Architecture were announced the winners of the Audi Urban Future Award for the project Boswash:Shareway 2030. The City Dossier in Boston, held this May, was organized as a series of workshops between Höweler + Yoon Architecture and Audi experts in developing steps to realize aspects of the Boswash: Shareway vision. Part research project, part feasibility study, part road map to the future of mobility - the focus of the workshops is to propose a pilot project that can be tested in the proposed region of Boston - Washington.

We featured the project last year as it highlights how the landscape of urban development has changed. The focus of "Shareway" is the string of high-density metropolitan areas, their suburbs and ex-urbs along I-95 between Boston, MA and Washington, DC. The I-95 corridor caters to some fifty million inhabitants, many of whom commute into metropolitan areas for work. Mobility and transportation are critical to the economic vitality of these urban areas; "Shareway" proposes an intentionally re-engineered "highly orchestrated and deliberately produced platform from which we might imagine alternate paths, different trajectories, or new cultural dreams" whereby imagining an "alternate life for the road" is imagining a new American Dream.

Read on for more on the progress of this project after the break.

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• Architects

  LEM + Architectes

• Location

  Montreuil, France

• Area

  3592.0 sqm

• Project Year

  2013

• Photographs

  Luc Boegly

+ 16

• Architects

  hanrahanMeyers architects

• Location

  Easton, PA, United States

• Area

  1200.0 ft2

• Photographs

  Courtesy of hanrahanMeyers architects

+ 4

• Architects

  Urbanus

• Location

  Liyu Men of the Dongbin Avenue, Nanshan District, Shenzhen,China

• Principle Architect

  Meng Yan

• Project Architect

  Zhou Chengsong, Lin Ting

• Team

  Chen Lansheng, Zhang Tianxin, Xie Shengfen, Li Jiajia, Chen Danping, Liu Jie | Yao Dianbin (Technical Director)

• (LDI) Structure

  MEP (Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing): Shenzhen Institute China Academy of Building Research

• Project Period

  2010-2013

• Site Area

  20,979.60 ㎡

• Floor Area

  4,347.04 ㎡

• Photographs

  Courtesy of Wu Qiwei Lin Ting

• Architects

  URBANUS

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• Architects

  Studio Libeskind

• Location

  Warsaw, Poland

• Architect of Record

  Artchitecture SP ZOO

• Area

  804602.0 ft2

• Project Year

  2013

• Photographs

  ORCO photo by Krzysztof Wierzbowski, Daniel Libeskind

• Location

  Warsaw, Poland

• Project Year

  2013

• Photographs

  ORCO photo by Krzysztof Wierzbowski, Courtesy of Daniel Libeskind

• Area

  804602.0 ft2

Videos

The revamped Transbay Transit Center in downtown San Francisco broke ground earlier this week, a project that will introduce a 1.5 million square foot development that will be part transportation hub, part public park and urban space, and part offices and retail establishments. The massive undertaking, designed by renowned architecture firm Pelli Clarke Pelli will bring together 11 systems of local and national transportation, serving 45 million people per year. In addition to securing access to myriad transit lines, the project will also provide downtown San Francisco with a 5.4-acre rooftop park, designed by PWP Landscape Architecture, along with numerous cultural programs. The project is budgeted at 4.2 billion dollars and is projected for completion in 2017. It is funded in part by the construction of a 1,070-foot tower that is adjacent to the Transbay Transity Center. It is also designed by Pelli Clarke Pelli and is slated to be the tallest tower in San Francisco. The tower will secure 60 stories of office space and jobs and will contribute to the projected $87 billion of revenue through 2030.

Join us after the break for more details on this project.

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• Architects

  Josep Camps & Olga Felip

• Location

  Barcelona, España

• Project Year

  2013

• Photography

  Pedro Pegenaute