In its annual report, the 2016 Tall Building Year in Review, the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) has announced that 2016 saw the completion of a record 128 buildings 200 meters or higher. This number surpasses the previous record of 114 completions set in 2015. Eighteen of these buildings became the tallest in their city, country, or region, and ten earned the designation of supertall, at 300 meters and above.
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The Results Are In: 2016 Is a Record-Breaking Year for Tall Buildings
Aedas Releases Plans for Blooming Bamboo-Inspired Tower in China
Aedas has released its design for Gmond International Building, a representative regeneration project located in the old town area of Shenzhen, China. The 200-meter super high-rise building is inspired by the traditional form of Chinese totem bamboo, which symbolizes prosperity and moral integrity.
With nearly 60,000 square meters of gross floor area, the building will house the headquarters for Tellus-Gmond, Grade 5A lettable office spaces, and a jewelry-trading center.
Hanking Center Tower in China to Become Tallest Detached Core Building Worldwide
Morphosis Architects’ Hanking Center Tower in Shenzhen, China has recently topped out, with the 62nd floor now in place. Defined by its detached core configuration, the building positions its primary core 9 meters outside its main body, connected by a series of sky bridges and braces, in order to increase flexibility and light penetration into the floor plate.
Two secondary cores in the body of the building provide structural reinforcement and house private elevators for VIP users, as well as freight elevators and mechanical services.
In an effort to serve global professionals and bring density to the suburb of Nanshan, the tower will feature flexible office space on its open floor plate, anchored by high-end retail and dining.
SimplyWork 3.0 Co-working Space / 11architecture Ltd.
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Architects: 11architecture Ltd.
- Area: 650 m²
- Year: 2016
Plugin Tower / People's Architecture Office
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Architects: People's Architecture Office
- Year: 2016
Mystical Game / Feel Design
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Architects: Feel Design
- Year: 2016
Museum of Contemporary Art & Planning Exhibition / Coop Himmelb(l)au
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Architects: Coop Himmelb(l)au
- Area: 80000 m²
- Year: 2016
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Professionals: AG Licht, B+G Ingenieure Bollinger + Grohmann GmbH, Davis Langdon & Seah
Aedas Wins Two International Competitions to Design Airports in Shenzhen and Hong Kong
Aedas have recently won two international competitions to design international airport buildings: the Shenzhen Airport Satellite Concourse and Hong Kong International Airport Third Runway Passenger Building.
In recent years, Aedas have emerged as a leader in airport design, as they are also currently working on the Hong Kong International Airport Terminal 2 Expansion, and have previously worked on Hong Kong International Airport Midfield Concourse and North Satellite Concourse. With the two newly-won projects, Aedas hopes to reinforce their strength and growing influence in airport design.
Flahalo Office Renovation / Atelier LI
- Area: 350 m²
MVRDV + Zhubo Studio Win Competition for New Sports and Cultural Center in Shenzhen
MVRDV and Zhubo Architecture Design have won a competition to design the Xili Sports and Cultural Centre in Shenzhen, China. The new experience center will consist of four distinct volumes housing a theater, a basketball and badminton arena, a multi-function arena and a swimming pool, as it seeks to “transform the lives of the different generations of people living nearby, through offering a more humanistic model for sports and culture.”
Aedas Reveal Dynamic New Design For The Shenzhen Luoho Friendship Trading Centre
A department store in Shenzhen, China, is currently undergoing a major transformation into what the architect describes as an "a new sustainable and iconic design for the city." Designed by Aedas, the Shenzhen Luoho Friendship Trading Centre will include a new skyscraper and a "vibrant and porous" 7-story retail podium. Integrated landscaping and green balconies turn the development into an "urban oasis" in the heart of the city.
Prince Bay Marketing Exhibition Centre / AECOM
MLA+ and CAUPD Win Urban Design Competition to Regenerate Along the G107 Highway in Shenzhen
Foreign leading firm MLA+ and local leading firm the China Academy of Urban Planning and Design, in collaboration with Felixx Landscape Architects & Planners and the Shenzhen Municipal Design & Research Institute, have won first prize in the urban design competition for the regeneration of an area along the G107 highway in the Bao’an district of Shenzhen, China.
Located on both aspects of the G107, the one- to two-kilometer piece of land forms a 53-square-kilometer area for the new plan, which will redevelop a fragmented industrial landscape created by the highway and Shenzhen’s identity as a former “Factory of the World” city.
China Envisions a Futuristic Carbon Neutral City With a Technologically Innovative Highway
Highways have been operating in largely the same way since the early twentieth century. In the Bao'an District in Shenzhen, China, rapid urbanization and industrialization within the built environment is not mirrored in its infrastructural spine, the G107 highway. In order to investigate the possibilities for this strip and its adjacent areas, a visionary open competition was organized earlier this year. A team lead by Avoid Obvious Architects (AOA) and TETRA Architects and Planners presented a redefinition of the highway typology, with a system complex enough to properly service the rich productivity it is connecting.
AOA and TETRA's new G107 is a multi-modal transport system, focused on allowing futuristic modes of transport as it is on implementing cutting edge levels of sustainability. Also referred to by the consortium as an "organic highway," the proposition aims to foster and connect a network of "green manufacturing," with the strategic vision of making Bao'an a carbon neutral city by 2045.
Shenye TaiRan Building / ZHUBO DESIGN
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Architects: ZHUBO DESIGN
- Area: 168950 m²
- Year: 2012
Shenzhen VC-PE Tower / Studio Georges Hung + Huazhu Architecture & Engineering Co. Ltd.
Mecanoo’s Cultural Center in Shenzhen Set to Top Out in April
A new cultural center designed by Mecanoo, located in the Longgang district of Shenzhen, China is currently under construction and is set to top out by end-April. With the goal of revitalizing an existing park-square, the new complex includes a variety of programs such as a bookshop, an art museum, a youth center, and a science center. The nearly 100,000 square-meter building is set to open to the public in 2018.