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Zhuhai Observation Tower by RMJM

August 24, 2014 Marco Rinaldi

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As a part of Doumen´s new riverfront improvement project, a new landmark tower should be realized at the intersection of two rivers in the center of the new promenade development. RMJM Shenzhen recently won the competition for this new observation tower in Zhuhai. The building itself is about 100 m high and will become an iconic symbol for the local environment.

The design is inspired by the unique traditional water culture of the riverside district of Doumen. The movement of the water and the fish can bee seen as origin of the initial idea. The fish jumping gesture should symbolize the prosperity and rapid transformation of the city. For the integration of the tower in the urban promenade concept, the proposal avoids using too much of the plaza area, and leave the most space for landscape design elements and recreational activities for the people.

Moreover there will be cafes and restaurants on the ground floor of the tower-podium to activate the plaza square. The tower itself is divided into three parts: the ground podium, the experience part in the middle and the observation facilities on the top. The podium will contain a lobby for the elevator entrance, different restaurants and cafes and two small shops. The area is about 2000 m2 in total with the service facilities.

The middle part of the tower is designed to be the experience part with different types of platforms like a recreational platform or a media platform. A staircase connects the podium with the observation facility and is attached on the outer side of the core. The top part is designated to the view – there will be a lower observation platform accessible directly by the elevator and enclosed by glass panels.

From there the higher outside observation platform can be reached, which provides a 360-degree breathtaking view to the surroundings of the river and the city. The design tools, which are used to generate the shape of the tower, are parametric design modeling tools. The main structure of the tower consists of twelve two-dimensional curves, which are divided in a second step for the sub frame.

The sub-frame serves as the holding for the 1400 panels, which will create the iconic look of the tower. Moreover the panels will provide a sun protection in the middle part and create an interesting light-situation inside the building. The bent panels will be made out of perforated aluminum and be fixed on two sides through five fixation points on the sub-frame structures. Source by RMJM.
 
Location: Zhuhai, China
Architect: RMJM
GFA: 4563㎡
Height: 88m
Year: 2014
Article by Marco Rinaldi
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Canada, Mixed-use, News, Wilkinson Eyre

Two 48-storey in 45-141 Bay Street by Wilkinson Eyre

October 3, 2014 Marco Rinaldi

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Real estate company Ivanhoé Cambridge, and Metrolinx, the Province of Ontario’s regional transportation agency for the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area, announced today an agreement that sets the stage for a forward-looking, integrated office and transit development in downtown Toronto.

Subject to pre-leasing progress, project construction could commence as early as spring 2015, with the new GO Bus Terminal to open approximately three years after the beginning of construction, and the first office tower to be completed within the months following the opening of the Terminal.

The development will feature:
A 2.7 million ft2 (250,000 m2), multi-phased, premium office complex at 45-141 Bay Street built to LEED® Platinum standards;
A new, larger GO Bus Terminal with the latest features and amenities at the base of the planned 45 Bay Street office tower to reinforce Union Station’s transit-hub capabilities; and
An elevated park above the rail corridor with new public green spaces.

In addition to the new bus terminal, the two towers will be connected via an elevated public park above the rail corridor which has already been dubbed ‘Skypark’. The podiums of the towers will also contain retail and amenities including a fitness centre and food services.

Paul Gleeson, Executive Vice President, Global Development, Ivanhoé Cambridge, said: “Our plan is to build a major, next-generation office tower complex designed to meet LEED® Platinum certification, with all the expected features of a AAA property. 45-141 Bay St. will be an architectural landmark of downtown Toronto, while offering best-in-market premises for our tenants.”
 
Location: Toronto, Canada
Architects: Wilkinson Eyre Architects
Architect Of Record: Adamson Associates
Area: 250,000 sqm
Start: 2015
Year: 2018
Developer: Hines
Source: Courtesy of Ivanhoé Cambridge

Article by Marco Rinaldi
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Five finalists for competition Karlavagnstornet in Gothenburg

May 29, 2014 Marco Rinaldi

Proposal # 1 Name: Ursa

Height of skyscraper: 214 meters

Proposal # 2 Name: Swells

Height of skyscraper: 231 meters

Proposal # 3 Name: Glasklart

Height of skyscraper: 202,1 meters

Proposal # 4 Name: North Star

Height of skyscraper: 230 meters

Proposal # 5 Name: Kyssen

Height of skyscraper: 215 meters
Source: Sverig & Projekt
Article by Marco Rinaldi
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Broadway Malyan, China, Competition, News, Office Building Broadway Malyan wins Chengdu Creative Centre competition September 1, 2014 Marco Rinaldi Broadway Malyan has won an international competition to design the ‘Chengdu Creative Centre’ – the first phase of a landmark new urban district in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province and a major city in Western China. The new high-tech business park and mixed use Centre will form the high-profile gateway to the new district which will be named Tianfu New Town. Drawing inspiration from the local surroundings, the masterplan will create an integrated web of office, retail and green public spaces focused around a statement 110m central tower. The development will set the tone for the future growth of Tianfu New Town and create a new benchmark for sustainable development in the region by halving current energy consumption standards. China’s state council has designated Chengdu as the country’s western centre of logistics, commerce, finance, science and technology, as well as a hub of transportation and communication. It is also an important base for manufacturing and agriculture. A pr evious survey by the World Bank on global investment environments also identified Chengdu as a benchmark city for investment in inland China. Source by Broadway Malyan. Location: Chengdu, China Architects: Broadway Malyan Collaboration: East China Architectural Design & Research Institute (ECADI) Environmental Engineers: Cundall Hight: 25-Storey Year: 2014 Client: Chengdu Tiantou Real Estate Development Article by Marco Rinaldi with permalink: http://aasarchitecture.com/2014/09/broadway-malyan-wins-chengdu-creative-centre-competition.html

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Asymptote has been commissioned to design a new cultural project on the outskirts of the Tuscan hill town of Peccioli Italy. Peccioli is a pre renaissance hill town in the Province of Pisa, located about 50 kilometers southwest of Florence. The ‘Parco Degli Angeli’ (Park of Angels) Master Plan and architectural works by Asymptote include a collection of new buildings and parkland, a large covered 800-seat amphitheater and various interactive sculptural features.

 

The interventions target an intimate form of urbanism that is grafted onto Peccioli and creating a new edge condition set against the spectacular surrounding Tuscan countryside. The building components include a new Museum of Etruscan Antiquities, a Center for Tuscan Food and Wine Culture (Centro di Cultura Enogastronomica) and a new community-based Music Center and Music Instrument Museum. Each building component, landscape intervention and art work is designed as a being transformative by way of utilizing kinetic skins, and complex geometries and that along with light luminous materials make up the main palette of components and aspects that make up the master plan strategy.
 

The architecture and terrain as conceived by Asymptote target the creation of new event spaces and public areas that are also carefully woven into the Tuscan environs and serve to evoke a powerful sense of place, history and timelessness. The demure and fascinating vistas of articulated hilltop towns and their unique and permanent metaphysical presence on the distant horizons greatly impacted the approach to the designed components that make up the master plan. Also an approach to coloration and certain painterly aspects set against the outlying rolling terrain composed of vineyards, olive trees and vast swaths of farmland were of great influence.

 

The ‘Parco Degli Angeli’ is designed to be both an elegant 21-century addition to Peccioli and a dramatic insertion into the Tuscan landscape being in dialog with a deep and resonant cultural history. Along with these various building components there are a number of interesting landscape features and specific places designed for repose, meandering and contemplation, all taking full advantage of the spectacular setting in which the project is situated. For these finer grained aspects of the project, Asymptote took conceptual and artistic queues and inspiration from the interplay between the natural and manmade, a preoccupation seen in the design of Italian Baroque gardens.
 

The paving and mannered of the ground surfaces and materials for example, were designed to evoke and recall (through abstraction) the intricate mathematical patterning and geometries at the root of Florentine renaissance architecture and engineering, particularly the within the works of Paolo Uccello and Da Vinci in respect to the geometric and in terms of the compositional and coloration used by painters such as Fra Angelico Piero della Francesca and Jacopo Pontormo. The key designed structures that make up ‘Parco Degli Angeli’ are each in and of themselves unique approaches to solving not only tectonic and formal preoccupations but are also the result of environmental design issues and drivers.
 

The collection of buildings and spaces, which include a large covered amphitheater, predominantly clad in a translucent gossamer fabric, serves to filter, transform and harness natural light and the energy it produces. The covering is designed as a kinetic and intricately transformable shell structure, pouted with photo voltaic and therefore able to respond to subtle changes in daylight. The architecture of the canopy being developed as apertures set within directional funnels is able to redirect breezes and wind and airflows appropriately to the space beneath. This intelligent and reactive skin is also able to open and close according to need, therefore repelling rainfall and ‘shutting down’ during inclement weather.
 

This intelligent and ‘responsive skin’ is being designed in collaboration between New York and Stuttgart with Trannsolar Environmental Engineers and structural engineers Knippers Helbig. The ‘Parco Degli Angeli’ as conceived by Asymptote is a unique opportunity to incise into a remarkable and historically loaded context a work that makes evident the possibility of confronting the remarkable past with a provocative and inspired future. This theater, museums and parkland are not designed as a confrontational stylistic work, but rather as architecture of accompaniment, where technology and tectonics act at the service of beauty, uniqueness and newfound fascination. Source: Asymptote Architecture
 

Location: Peccioli, Italy
Architects: Asymptote Architecture
Architecs In Charge: Hani Rashid and Lise Anne Couture
Project Director: Mo Zheng, Paul Mecomber. Rob Eleazor
Project Team: Matt Slattery, Ivy Wang, Natalie Hein
Local Architects: Heliopolis 21 Architects
Structural Engineers: Knippers Helbig Advanced Engineering Stuttgart Germany
Environmental Engineers: Transsolar Stuttgart Germany
Renderings: Damjan Minovski, Vienna Austria
Year: 2014

Broadway Malyan wins Chengdu Creative Centre competition

September 1, 2014 Marco Rinaldi

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Broadway Malyan has won an international competition to design the ‘Chengdu Creative Centre’ – the first phase of a landmark new urban district in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province and a major city in Western China. The new high-tech business park and mixed use Centre will form the high-profile gateway to the new district which will be named Tianfu New Town.



Drawing inspiration from the local surroundings, the masterplan will create an integrated web of office, retail and green public spaces focused around a statement 110m central tower. The development will set the tone for the future growth of Tianfu New Town and create a new benchmark for sustainable development in the region by halving current energy consumption standards.



China’s state council has designated Chengdu as the country’s western centre of logistics, commerce, finance, science and technology, as well as a hub of transportation and communication. It is also an important base for manufacturing and agriculture. A previous survey by the World Bank on global investment environments also identified Chengdu as a benchmark city for investment in inland China. Source by Broadway Malyan.

 

Location: Chengdu, China
Architects: Broadway Malyan
Collaboration: East China Architectural Design & Research Institute (ECADI)
Environmental Engineers: Cundall
Hight: 25-Storey
Year: 2014
Client: Chengdu Tiantou Real Estate Development
Article by Marco Rinaldi
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