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n°33 : VitraHaus - Jacques Herzog & Pierre de Meuron
Weil am Rhein, Germany
2009

In 2006, the company Vitra asked two Swiss architects, Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, to design a building in Germany, to showcase the furniture of their new "Home" collection, and to include a show-room, a restaurant and a shop.
The result was not one building, but ten. Houses with sloping rooves, stacked over four levels. All the houses are different, in their length, width, height, and roof design. Each house was inspired by a traditional house of the region, which was carefully photographed. The building was finished in 2009.

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n°34 : Charles de Gaulle airport - Paun Andreu
Roissy-en-France, France
1974

Roissy 1 embodied the aspirations of modern architecture.
It was built during the initial era of mass travel, a pre-crisis era that revered progress and dreams of high speed and that witnessed the first appearances of airport architecture. People would come to Roissy 1 to admire, no longer the planes, but the architecture.
Paul Andreu was the main player in this revolution. He was 29 years old at the time. It was his first construction and the very beginning of a long series of about fifty platforms throughout the world that were to make him into one of the greatest 20th century airport architects.

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n°35 : Barcelona Pavillon - Luwig Mies van der Rohe
Barcelona, Spain
1928

Here, between grandeur and gratuity, Mies van der Rohe states his own vision of the new architecture.
The German pavilion at the 1929 Barcelona World Fair holds the record for notoriety per square metre built.
A flat roof, 8 metal posts and a dozen partitions.
How and why did this minimal structure come to be the incarnation of 20th century modernity?
Apart from its iconic dimension, the Pavilion had no other function than to provide shelter for less than an hour during the reception of the King and Queen of Spain on the day of the inauguration of the Fair.


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n°36 : The Church of Notre Dame du Raincy - Auguste Perret & Gustave Perret
Le Raincy, France
1923
 

After the First World War ended, the parish priest at Le Raincy decided to build a new church.

But the country was ruined and the clergy's coffers were empty. A man took up the double challenge of urgency and budget: the architect Auguste Perret. Building quickly and cheaply at that period meant building with reinforced concrete. This unloved material was considered shameful and only fit forindustrial use.

Thirteen months of work on site was enough to build this, "Concrete Holy Chapel", a magnificent demonstration of the plastic and constructive qualities of this material and a splendid lesson from an architect, for a time forgotten, who revolutionised the language of architecture.


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n°37 : The Pompeia Social Service Centre - Lina Bo Bardi
Sao Paulo, Brazil
1977

In the Palmeiras district of Sao Paulo, early 20th century former factory-workshops are aligned with strange blocks of cement that stand tall, facing the city and its towers.
The building is a social and cultural centre for employees. Its architect, Lina Bo Bardi, preferred to refer to it as a "citadel of leisure", a symbol, both of the reconversion of work premises and the affirmation of an Alternative, in front of the city. It is a major architectural example of "Architettura Povera".
 

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n°38 : The hotel de Soubise and the hotel de Rohan - Olivier de Clisson (Soubise) & Pierre-Alexis Delamair (Rohan)
Paris, France
1371 (Soubise) & 1705 (Rohan)

 

The history of the Hotel de Rohan and the Hotel de Soubise is one of unbridled ambition that fuelled the Princes of Soubise's dreams of magnificence from 1705 to 1752.

 

The prince had a dual ambition: he wanted to transform the Hotel de Guise into the Hotel de Soubise for the Crown Prince, and have a second private house built for the fifth son, the Prince-Bishop of Strasbourg.
Two private houses face each other, separated by a beautiful garden in the historic heart of the town. During the various work campaigns, no expense was spared for the Princes of Soubise.

This paradoxical urban complex bears witness both to the Parisian "between court and garden" model and the architects' creativity in adapting it to an irregularly shaped plot. It is also an example of the political role of buildings for the French aristocracy of the 18th century.

 

 

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Supertall City: New York’s 2014 Boom
By: Nikolai Fedak (New York YIMBY)


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3WTC (175 Greenwich Street) - 1,170 ft (357m)--------------------- 30 Hudson Yards - 1,255ft (383m)

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111 West 57th - 1,350 ft (411m)----------------------------------------------------------- 217 West 57th Street - 1,424 ft (434m)

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432 Park Ave - 1,398 ft (426m) ------------------------------------------------ Brookfield Manhattan West - 1,216ft (370m)
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One57-1,004 ft (306m)----------------------------------------- One World Trade Center (1WTC) - 1,776 ft (541m)
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The GiraSole - 1,060ft (323m)
----------------------- Tower Verre - 1,050ft (320m)


A number of towers that began work in 2013 will begin to make an impact on the skyline in 2014, including several supertalls. Activity is booming throughout the city, with major new developments rising in several core Manhattan neighborhoods, in addition to Downtown Brooklyn and Long Island City. Altogether, seven buildings of 1,000 feet or greater will start or continue construction in 2014; currently, New York only has six towers that pass that mark.

In Midtown, 432 Park Avenue is the most obvious candidate to change the skyline this year, as work is already so far along; the building will likely reach its 1,398-foot pinnacle within the next twelve months. Construction is also in full swing at 217 West 57th Street, and about to commence at both 111 West 57th Street and the MoMA’s Torre Verre; while those developments will still be in the excavation phase at year’s end, blasting for the projects will likely be audible throughout the neighborhood, a constant reminder of the rapidly evolving cityscape.

Further South, 10 Hudson Yards will continue to advance, followed by 15, 30, and 35 Hudson Yards; the latter two buildings will become the first supertalls of the far West Side. With the platform for Manhattan West also under construction, the entire neighborhood is rapidly turning into a hive of activity, and its evolution this year will be quick.

Simultaneously, the fourth major tower of the new World Trade Center complex — 175 Greenwich Street — will resume its rise. The building will be the lone commercial giant of the structures rising on the Downtown skyline, and the others fall short of the 1,000 foot mark; in addition to 30 Park Place and 56 Leonard — both of which rose above ground last year — 22 Thames and 50 West Street will also be going vertical in 2014. All of the aforementioned will stand over 750 feet tall.

Soaring supertalls may be the most visible legacy of the current wave of construction, but high-rises will also make an impact on the city, especially in the Outer Boroughs. Several projects underway in Downtown Brooklyn will approach the 600-foot mark, and with excavation beginning on both the Avalon Willoughby and The Hub, the DoBro skyline will see significant infill this year. That will also be the theme in Long Island City, though projects in Queens are — on average — slightly shorter, and the CitiGroup Tower will remain unchallenged.

Perhaps the most overlooked neighborhood in terms of potential is Jersey City; it will have two three-towered complexes under construction, both of which will enhance the pedestrian sphere and the skyline. Urban Ready Living will add three buildings of approximately 70 floors to the waterfront, while ‘Journal Squared’ represents the first major push of new development into the Journal Square neighborhood, with the first 54-story skyscraper set to rise soon.

Taking everything together — even without noting the Pyramid under construction on West 57th Street, or the 795-foot tower about to rise at 41 East 22nd Street — it is clear that development trends are pointing upwards in 2014, in every sense. New York is about to see an unprecedented vertical expansion, and its unique case of purely market-driven growth that is globally unrivaled will finally become visually apparent in the new year.

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- NYC Nordstrom Tower to Become World’s Tallest Residential Building at 1,775 Feet(541 meters) -

 

YIMBY has the latest drawings of Nordstrom Tower, courtesy of an anonymous tipster close to the project. Scoping documents also include the actual height numbers: 225 West 57th Street‘s facade will top-out 1,479′ above street level, while a surprise spire on top will cap the tower at 1,775 feet. Adrian Smith and Gordon Gill are designing the building.

 

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New York City’s skyscraper boom is entering unparalleled territory, and 225 West 57th Street could very well represent the crest of the current wave, assuming the tower is financed. The new height details will result in several superlatives: Manhattan will finally retake the ‘tallest roof’ in the United States from Chicago’s Willis Tower, which stands 1,451′, and 225 West 57th Street will become the tallest residential building in the entire world, surpassing both 432 Park Avenue and Mumbai’s World One Tower.

 

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Structural drawings indicate the curtain wall will be accompanied by steel fins and aluminum louvers, and the result should become a contemporary icon on the Manhattan skyline. The talented Otie O’Daniel created 3D models of the tower based on the drawings and schematics, which give better insight into the building’s eventual appearance — though the images are not official renderings.

 

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225 West 57th Street’s design has seen modifications since vague renderings were presented to Landmarks during the debate over the tower’s cantilever, which will rest over the historic Arts Students League. Additional protrusions have been eliminated, and the ultimate design appears to be far sleeker than the original proposal.

Even the cantilever appears to be well-integrated, adding additional heft to the stem of the actual tower, which rises after several setbacks in a style befitting the wedding cake-shape of Manhattan’s traditional skyscrapers. The result is aggressive, and the tower’s ultimate pinnacle will stand over 300 feet taller than any other manmade objects in Midtown, piercing the nascent plateau emerging around the 1,400-foot mark.

 

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In terms of contemporary comparisons, the design looks to draw from Smith + Gill’s Trump International Tower in Chicago, which is also replete with setbacks and ends in a distinctive but far shorter spire; indeed, it almost looks like a merger between Trump and Willis, though the notched indentations at Nordstrom will be far less intrusive than the setbacks on the former Sears Tower.

Extell’s latest development will have a collection of superlative titles, but its (hopefully) imminent rise underscores the velocity of New York’s general ‘supertall’ boom, which is now the most impressive on the planet. In Midtown alone, other supertalls on the near-horizon include 111 West 57th Street, 432 Park Avenue, 53 West 53rd Street, 3 Hudson Boulevard, 30 Hudson Yards, and 35 Hudson Yards, all of which are already under construction or on their way.

While the Nordstrom Tower’s roof height will be the tallest in the Western Hemisphere, its pinnacle will fall one foot shy of One World Trade Center’s, which begs the question of whether Extell could simply add a few dozen feet to snatch the crown. Such a feat would not be unprecedented, and what ultimately signals resilience is continued progress; instead of deferring to the “Freedom Tower,” 225 West 57th Street should surpass it, returning the title of Manhattan’s tallest building to Midtown on a more permanent basis.

Completion of 225 West 57th Street is currently slated for 2018, and the most recent permits — which were partially approved on July 1st — reveal a total scope of over 1.2 million square feet.

 

(By: Nikolai Fedak on July 9th 2014)

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NEW YORK | Nordstrom Tower | 541m | 1775ft 1795? | 92 fl | U/C
 
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[Rendering via New York YIMBY. From right to left, 53 West 53rd Street (under construction),
111 West 57th Street (under construction), One57 (mostly complete), and 217 West 57th Street.]

Big news on the megatower front: New York YIMBY reports that the Nordstrom Tower, Extell's ginormous residential tower for 57th Street, will rise to a height of 1,795 feet. Not only would that would make it the tallest building in New York City, trumping One World Trade Center's iconic 1,776, but also the tallest in the country and the western hemisphere.

YIMBY reports that between April and June of 2014, the Nordstrom Tower's design grew, with the height of the parapet (the top of the actual building) climbing from 1,478 feet to 1,530 feet, and the height of the entire thing—that includes the skinny spire, a.k.a. pinnacle—rising from 1,775 (just one foot shorter than 1WTC) to a whopping 1,795.

Some caveats here: YIMBY doesn't cite a specific source, though past scoops have come from architects Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill. YIMBY also scored the first interior renderings of the megatower, which will have a flagship Nordstrom store at its base and tons o' condos up above, including a penthouse that may have the highest outdoor space in the city.

Department of Buildings permits dictate various heights and floor counts that are less than the current report; for example, this one says 1,550 feet (20 feet taller than this version) and 88 floors. (The current iteration has 93 floors.) Remember, YIMBY warns, DOB filings don't actually have to reflect eventual reality. In fact, many megatowers (see 30 Hudson Yards) initially have paperwork on file that says they will be smaller than they actually end up being. "The tactic is not uncommon for high-profile projects," YIMBY's Nikolai Fedak writes. They "also do not account for anything above a building's roof height, so even the final job application figures could leave out the actual pinnacle height."

In short, the specific numbers could change, but all signs point to a future in which a condo tower outstrips One World Trade Center of its "tallest building in New York City" title. Brace.
 
STORY LINK: http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2015/05/11/will_one_world_trade_center_lose_its_tallest_building_title.php

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On the Midtown Skyline, a Race to the Clouds @nytimes.com

 

The race to the sky has kicked into high gear in Midtown Manhattan, where a new round of luxury skyscrapers aimed at multimillionaires is on the rise in and around West 57th Street. If all goes according to the developers’ plans — and the market cooperates — the towers will climb to new heights in just a few years, setting price records, casting long shadows over Central Park and significantly altering the city’s skyline.

 

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Could This Otherworldly 102-Story Tower Covered in Ornaments Be Coming to 57th Street?

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Jaded by glass boxes and architectural imitations of styles gone by? Well this fascinating design by Mark Foster Gage Architects is sure to turn your architectural world upside down. Here’s our first look at their 102-story residential supertower seemingly flown in from some advanced airborne civilization in a galaxy far, far away. While details are scarce, this eagle lands in the heart of Midtown’s Billionaires’ Row along West 57th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues.

The whimsical design is a habitable sculpture of sorts, adorned from top to bottom in ornaments ranging from gears and propellers to an abstracted pair of birds diving in for a landing on two wing-supported balconies. The tower is topped by a temple-like observational platform which is then crowned by a golden wreath-like structure fit for any victorious Roman general.

 

Interesting architectural statement even though the chances of this getting approved are slim to none.

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Downtown Development Full Speed Ahead: The Latest Info on 104 Downtown Projects

 

DTLA - The U.S. stock market is shaky. Financial analysts are worried about the economic situation in China. Many people are wondering if another recession is on the horizon.

You would hardly know that from looking at Downtown Los Angeles, where the development scene continues to boom. Land and buildings here are selling for ever-higher prices. Rents in new apartment structures routinely surpass $4 a square foot. More than a dozen skyscrapers are under construction. 

In the following pages, Los Angeles Downtown News runs down the latest information on a mind-boggling 104 projects. These cover a wide spectrum, from the aforementioned residential buildings to several older structures being turned into creative office space to the tallest tower west of the Mississippi to the creation of new parks.

What’s more, the activity is happening across the community. The Arts District and South Park continue to hum, while investors also see opportunity in Little Tokyo, Chinatown, Bunker Hill, the Historic Core and other neighborhoods.

The activity underway will forever change the face of Downtown. Here is a look at what is happening in the community.

 

LINK TO RUNDOWN LIST OF 104 projects: http://www.ladowntownnews.com/development/full-speed-ahead-the-latest-info-on-downtown-projects/article_d0225b06-d995-11e5-b531-6bb485e125eb.html

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I'm walking on that skyslide the first week it opens! :chicken:

Tallest Tower in the West Will Have a Glass Slide Stuck to the Side of the 69th Floor

A handful of the top floors at Downtown LA's US Bank Tower are undergoing a $50-million renovation that will leave the West Coast's tallest tower (for now) with a new, two-floor observation deck with 360-degree views, but apparently that isn't exciting enough.

REST OF STORY: http://la.curbed.com/2016/3/1/11139980/us-bank-tower-skyspace-slide-skyslide

 

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All these projects looks the same ...Cold as hell :D
Looks so temporary too...They literally conceptualise temporary shit in temporary places ...

That show the lack of ambition of the current US production IMO ...and the same for the rest of the world.

The consumer society made architecture.
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