The New Type of the City Sculptures

Majestic Skyscraper in Toronto

Representatives of architectural company Hariri Pontarini Architects assert that they managed in the given architectural project to embody the design concept on a degree of quality of a modern city sculpture.

The Universal Structure

One Bloor Tower will be used in the various purposes. In a tower 690 premises will be located.

The building facade is finished by wavy balconies. Balconies which will function as well as elements of front drawing, allocate a building against all other modern high-rise constructions.

Aqua Tower by Studio Gang

Aqua Tower (Chicago)

Each skyscraper in Chicago is continuation of History of Skyscrapers which has begun for a city in 1885 with building Home Insurance Building. "Tower" in height of 42 meters (plus two floors have been completed in 1891, having finished height to 50 meters) became the first-ever building exceeding level in five floors. New Aqua Tower — height of 250 meters, the sculptural facade of a structure creating illusion of waves is unique.

The Unique Architectural Structure

Calcareous rocks, characteristic for area of Great Lakes became a prototype of a wavy facade.
Such architectural decision it has not only visual value, and is functional; waves are used as viewing platforms, and also a shadow veil.
Building parameters; 82 floors, 250 meters in height, 215 hotel rooms (with 1 on 18 floor), 476 apartments (with 19 on 52 floor), 5,100 sq. m. trading and office areas, an underground parking, a 8-storeyed cellar a total area of 32,000 sq. m., a terrace with gardens, pools, arbors, paths for walks and run.

The New Aqua Tower

Skyscraper under an inclination

The main figures of this project — height of 160 metres, the budget of 1 336 million euro. Besides it, the tower is obviously inclined to effects. Capital Gate, the project of bureau RMJM on 4 degrees have overtaken the well-known tower in Pisa (18 degrees of an inclination against 14).

Art Tower in Dubai

The developer of the project is international exhibition company Abu Dhabi (Abu Dhabi National Exhibitions Company (ADNEC).

“Capital Gate — fine result of a combination of accurate vision, creativity and adaptability to manufacture of the engineering decision. I am very happy with process and would like to express gratitude to all people involved in an embodiment of this surprising project during a life”, — the operating director of group ADNEC speaks Simon Horgan.

Tony Archibold from RMJM has declared, that the technologies applied in the given project, were not applied still anywhere and never in the world.

In a tower hotel Hyatt 5* which will offer visitors of 189 numbers, and also office areas will be located. On 18th floor of a tower it will be placed tea with an open terrace and pool, with a kind on a city and a gulf.

That the building has sustained a non-standard inclination, it is placed on a concrete facade by depth of 2,1 metres; the design represents architectural system in the form of a steel diagonal lattice, which leaves in the earth on 30 metres to provide stability to winds, gravitational and seismic.

Great Gate of Capital

The Highest Tower of the World

Burj Dubai Skyscraper

Form Burj Dubai reminds a stalagmite. A huge stalagmite. According to Wiki, since May, 19th, 2008 this highest construction in the world, from all existing and ever the existing.

The Kilometer Skyscraper

The exact definitive height of a structure is still unknown, and estimated makes 818 meters (more than 160 floors). We suggest you to look at Dubai even above than from height of the bird's flight and will present, what will be a shade from this almost kilometer giant.

Steven Holl Architects have connected buildings in a multipurpose hybrid

Steven Holl Architects have finished building of the multipurpose complex consisting of eight towers connected among themselves.

The project has been named by the Best High-rise Building 2009 in Asia and Australia in competition which has taken place under home nursing Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat. In a complex premises, hotel, a cinema, a children's garden, school, an underground parking, the commercial areas, public park are provided.

Eight towers are connected among themselves by a series of high-rise bridges which, by analogy to skyscrapers, have been named “skybridges”.

Architects hope, that this project will award Gold LEED Gold Certification, as the largest "green" multipurpose building. Geothermal wells under the base provide with depth of 100 metres heating in the winter and cooling in the summer.

The pond in the complex centre will detain the processed water used in buildings, in the winter a pond will freeze and turn to a skating rink.

Four inhabited complexes in the Emirates from RNL

On the annual congress of the international investments into the real estate of the United Arab Emirates, taken place in Abu Dhabi, company RNL has presented four variants of development of city areas.

Ambitious projects Al Ghadeer, Ghantoot, Lu’Luat Al Raha, Shams, assume expenses for building of inhabited complexes for 8-100 thousand inhabitants on the areas more than 15-18 million in sq.m.

The general for projects RNL — aspiration to create functional city structures in which there will be an environment favorable for the pedestrian and all-round comfort of residing.

Al Ghadeer — building around borders Dubai and Abu Dhabi — becomes the main centre between these two cities. Three million sq. m. of a site will give accessible habitation of average density of building for 20,000 inhabitants, some foot tunnels will allow to carry out an easy approach to any point of quarter, and technological features, such as universal Wi-Fi, will make a finding this quarter the most comfortable.

Project Ghantoot in Abu Dhabi — an inhabited complex for 100,000 inhabitants who should enjoy a site similar to a resort in this historical oasis, located along a gulf halfway between Abu Dhabi and Dubai, with convenient access to local ports and the airports. Company RNL has planned this complex as the unique and viable centre of multiuse focused on tourist business. Landing stages for yachts, prove the horse centre, beach resort hotel and a golf course once again, that rest will be unforgettable.

Lu’Luat Al Raha in the centre of the harbour with the same name the Suburban system of a high-speed tram in this area includes 470 000 sq. m. of area on recently modernised island in 235 000 sq. m. will connect the airport of Abu Dhabi to city centre.

Unlike other projects, Shams in Abu Dhabi will be the unique complex consisting mainly from high-rise buildings. Literally meaning “the Sun of Abu Dhabi” Shams Abu Dhabi, will be the prospering centre of city activity.

Reconstruction Trends of the Modern Skyscrapers

The Modern Skyscraper

The structure of modern high-rise buildings though it's limited to often material possibilities, dynamics and legal aspects, undergoes recently a stage there is nobody revival.
The list of known building receptions has considerably extended for the account of occurrence of modern building materials, such as for example composite frames from a carbon fiber. Experiments in the field of mechanical systems also far behind.

Emergent (China)

The majority of skyscrapers, nevertheless, are still equipped by the latent and expensive networks of the communications protected by metal pipelines. However, with the advent of HVAC systems architects have reflected on turn in a building of communicative chains.
This movement in architecture — the Structural expressionism — means transformations from the point of view of the form, the organizations or atmospheres. And last is defined by a transparency, exotic illumination and color effects.

Quality Tendency of the Skyscrapers

There is something surprising that this building is not in the United Arab Emirates as it's possible to assume, and in China. This project of company Emergent could not be, if there was no necessity to hide an electroconducting wire, cables and HIVAC-system. New City Center Emergent's Huaxi is the new approach to decorating of buildings.
Massive as if an iceberg, the building facade amazes a look with the device of the illumination sliding on a facade, it is even more giving similarity to an ice block.

The project of the highest tower in the world is promulgated

Developer company Nakheel in these days off has promulgated the plans for building of the highest tower in the centre of Dubai.

The building height will reach 1 kilometre and will eclipse itself the highest for today a tower in the world — Burj Dubai.

Nakheel the tower becomes a part of the project, named New Dubai which will be stretched more than on 270 hectares. And, predictably, will manage in 21 trillion of pounds sterling.

Representatives of company Nakheel have told, that instead of a unique kernel as it is accepted at building of skyscrapers, at their this building will be four, that is inspired by "traditional Islamic structures”.

Acting in the Near East the chief executive of company Chris O'Donnell has declared, that global credit crisis will not affect plans on tower erection. Also, he has told, that means for building will arrive under the following scheme — “earth presale inside and round a tower, and then project financing”.

The message on the given project is dated for beginning Cityscape 2008 event in Dubai. On this action it is expected to involve more than 60000 visitors from 150 countries. The exhibition will include more than 1500 exhibitors.

2008 Cityscape (Dubai)

Michael Schumacher's Tower

Architects Chris Bosse and Tobias Wallisser — representatives Laboratory for Visionary Architecture Asia Pacific (LAVA) on only opened world event — Cityscape 2008 event in Dubai — the grandiose project of the present — tower Michael Schumacher — the world champion in racing sports Formula-1.
On seventh of October in Dubai a legend Formula-1 Michael Schumacher has presented the first of seven towers which will be constructed worldwide. Thanks to the unique concept developed Joachim Swensson, the founder of brand PNYG:COMPANY, the building represents firm architecture of new generation.

The Dubai Tower Project

“The tower marks itself a withdrawal from traditional architectural thinking”, have declared Chris Bosse and Tobias Wallisser — authors of such known bulks, as the Water cube in Beijing and Museum Mercedes-Benz in Germany.

“This project unites all our previous experience — the project of a museum for Mercedes-Benz, with the spatial concept and last novelties of digital design, or technology of water cubed, in the Peking project, with creation of the tremendous atmosphere developed by deliberate replacement of a molecular science, architecture and phenomenology”, — Chris Bosse speaks.
Inspired by the geometrical organization of the most ordinary snowflake and aerodynamics of racing cars of the Formula-1, the tower reflects speed, dynamics of liquids, the future technologies and the natural structural organizations simultaneously. Instead of simple imitation of the form, architects have taken grace and unpredictability, highly effective structure and intriguing spaces from the nature.

Trend Technology of the Modern Skyscrapers

“Unique cooperation with Michael Schumacher has given us new ideas. The technology, accuracy, speed, grace, were the big source of inspiration for design. On analogies to a Formula-1 repair shop, tower building it will be executed with attraction of a considerable quantity of highly skilled experts. In this sense architects will take a place of the driver in competitions Formula-1″, adds Alexander Riec.

The project termination is planned for June, 2011.