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- An urban farm tops a LEED Gold-targeted health education tower in Toronto Fri, 12 Mar 21, 6:30amGlobal design practice Perkins and Will has raised the bar for sustainable campus design with the award-winning Daphne Cockwell Health Sciences Complex, a Ryerson University facility designed to achieve LEED Gold certification...
- Lush Sky Green towers are the first of their kind in Taichung Thu, 9 Jan 20, 3:30amTaichung, Taiwan has taken yet another step toward becoming a greener, more livable city with the recent completion of Sky Green, a sustainably minded, mixed-use development...
- Studio Gangs Solstice tower in Chicago is shaped by the sun Wed, 18 Sep 19, 1:30amIn Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood rises Solstice on the Park, a 26-story residential tower with an angular design that has been shaped by solar studies...
- Sculptural, tree-filled tower supports sustainable urbanism in Singapore Tue, 13 Aug 19, 4:30amKohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF) recently completed the Robinson Tower, a contemporary and sculptural high-rise in Singapore that was created in collaboration with Associate Architect A61...
- A timber observation tower with a vertical forest is proposed for Zagreb Thu, 11 Jul 19, 3:30amIstanbul-based design studio SUPERSPACE has proposed a new landmark for Croatia’s capital of Zagreb that combines an architecturally striking observation tower with a vertical forest in the heart of the city...
- MAD Architects unveils an organic skyscraper piercing Manhattans skyline Wed, 17 Apr 19, 1:30amBeijing-based architectural studio MAD Architects has unveiled an alternative vision for the skyline of New York City with the introduction of East 34th, a nature-inspired high-rise proposed near the Empire State Building...
- High-rise living in Utrecht to be transformed by a sustainable vertical village Sat, 19 Jan 19, 4:30amA trio of high rises are expected to outreach Utrecht, Netherlands' tallest building and be a beacon of sustainable urban living in the historic city. The MARK Vertical Village, designed by a consortium of architects and...
- LEED-targeted Monroe Blocks breaks ground in the heart of Detroit Thu, 20 Dec 18, 8:00amSchmidt Hammer Lassen Architects has just broken ground on its first U.S. project, Monroe Blocks, a masterplan that the international architecture firm has described as “downtown Detroit’s most significant mixed-use development...
- Ole Scheeren unveils designs for a stunning sky forest in Vietnam Wed, 15 Nov 17, 9:30pmInternational architecture firm Buro Ole Scheeren just unveiled designs for Empire City, a greenery-infused skyscraper set to rise in Ho Chi Minh City...
- Henning Larsen Architects dramatically pointed skyscraper will transform Manila skyline Wed, 6 Sep 17, 6:30pmHenning Larsen Architects just won an international competition for a new landmark building in the heart of Manila, Philippines. Designed in collaboration with landscape architects SLA and BuroHappold Engineering, the dramatically...
- Trees to grow on the balconies of Pendas timber high-rise in Toronto Thu, 3 Aug 17, 8:01pmA new kind of “vertical forest” has been envisioned for Toronto where trees would grow on every balcony. Architecture firm Penda teamed up with Canadian company Timber to design the Toronto Tree Tower, an 18-story mixed-use...
- C.F. Mller unveils eco-conscious highrise in Sweden Tue, 2 May 17, 7:07pmInternational design firm C.F. Møller won an architecture competition with their proposal for an eco-conscious high-rise in the central Swedish city of Västerås. Topped with solar panels and a green roof, the energy-efficient...
- Shimmering fin-like twin towers to rise as beacons of sustainability in Hangzhou Tue, 14 Jun 16, 11:00pmInspired by the Chinese character for ‘gate,’ the Zhejiang Gate Towers will stand 280 meters in height with a total area of 370,000 square meters. “The high-rise towers are an interpretation of the Chinese characters...
- Heatherwick Studio wants to build a tree-covered mountain in the middle of Shanghai Tue, 29 Dec 15, 2:00amHeatherwick Studio unveiled their design for a 15-acre site in Shanghai-a development that looks like a Lego mountain covered in trees. The studio was commissioned to design a complex of housing units, offices, shops, a hotel...
- Heatherwick Studio unveil sprawling mountain-shaped Moganshan development in China Mon, 28 Dec 15, 5:00pmHeatherwick Studio unveiled their design for a 15-acre site in Shanghai-a development that looks like a Lego mountain covered in trees. The studio was commissioned to design a complex of housing units, offices, shops, a hotel...