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In designing the façade for Shanghai Tower, a 124-level, 632-meter (2,074 feet) highrise, Gensler introduced a combination exterior and interior curtain wall system totaling 210,000 square meters (2.26 million square feet) of glazing area. This paper traces the development of the overall curtain wall system, focusing on exterior proposed design options and the issues associated with each of them, and discusses the underlying decision-making that led to the final documented option. Shanghai is located at 20°5 ’~ 22° 2’ east and 30°40’~3 °53’ north, in the eastern part of Asia. It is on the west coast of the Pacific Ocean, the center-point of the north and south coast in the Peoples Republic of China, on the edge of the East China Sea. The prevailing climate is a subtropical monsoon climate, with weather that is hot and very humid during summer. It has four distinct but mild seasons with full sunshine and plentiful rain.

DSA member Skanska is developing a new office tower on the corner of Second and University in downtown Seattle. The building, known as 2+U, is expected to

London’s first ecological tall building and an instantly recognisable addition to the city’s skyline, this headquarters designed for Swiss Re is rooted in a radical approach − technically, architecturally, socially and spatially. Forty-one storeys high, it provides 46,400 square metres net of office space together with an arcade of shops and cafés accessed from a newly created piazza.

Mitsubishi Jisho Sekkei has completed a 272-metre high office skyscraper in Taipei, which is adjoined to a retail building clad in a delicate metal lattice.

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Completed in 2021 in Chiyoda City, Japan. Images by Kawasumi Kobayashi Kenji Photograph Office. Located directly north of Tokyo Station, one of Japan’s largest railway hubs, the Tokyo Torch redevelopment district is envisioned as a light of hope...

Image 14 of 69 from gallery of A Retrofit in the UK and an Administrative Building in South Korea: 9 Unbuilt Office Projects Submitted to Archdaily. Eram Mixed-use Complex by Concept Design Company. Image © Concept Design Company

Take a look at this new co-working space and science park that embraces low-carbon energy, like solar power, and offers visitors impressive landscape views.

UNStudio was appointed to design the masterplan and architecture for the new Mandarin Oriental Hotel and Residences in Etiler, a prestigious residential quarter on the European side of Istanbul

MAB NEWQUAY DOCKLANDS has been designed as a 24 level mixed-use podium and single tower comprising 195 apartments and 4 commercial spaces. The complex is made up of a 5 storey podium, a single storey of terrace apartments coupled with common area amenities and 18 levels of tower residences.

Located at the starting point of the Wuchang Binjiang Business District’s future development axis, the project is comprised of a 150 m high-rise commercial tower and a 100m tower of serviced apartments perched atop a retail podium.

Ensemble of 4 towers, including 50-story office tower, two 35-story residential towers and 40-story service apartment tower with shared retail shopping podium. Design work performed while at Callison, LLC. Images © Callison

Robinson Tower comprises a 17-storey crystalline tower of Grade-A office space hovering above an elevated seven-storey retail podium, separated by a beautiful podium garden allowing for breathtaking views over Marina Bay and the city.

Podium façade work is continuing on The Brooklyn Tower, a 93-story, 550-unit project from SHoP and JDS Development at 9 DeKalb Avenue in Downtown Brooklyn.

The Ardea is an apartment tower located in Portland’s South Waterfront District. The Ardea is comprised of two structures—a 30-story “point tower” with an adjacent four-story podium, and a freestanding five-story building. A pedestrian-oriented pathway with ground-level retail links the two structures at mid-block. The unique tower has 265 for-lease apartments, and the four-story podium […]

Situated in the northeastern corner of the expansive Suhe MixC World in Shanghai, a multidimensional urban complex combining an underground Commercial Podium in East Alley with a newly developed green space, the East Alley Mixed-Use Commercial Podium (referred to as the "side building") serves as a physical and aesthetic gateway. It connects the underground commercial valley to the public urban space while blending seamlessly with its surroundings. This versatile structure, which encompasses offices, retail, F&B establishments, and a substantial equipment zone, stands beside a 42-story office tower designed by Fosters + Partners. To maintain visual consistency, Kokaistudios integrated design elements from the taller tower into the side building, including soaring pillars and staircases that traverse the space, establishing a connection with its surroundings through distinct east and west facades.

At UTS Central, with its glass-wrapped podium and twisting tower, FJMT both dances with the University of Technology Sydney’s existing structures and defines the future using new design and construction techniques that facilitate individual and collaborative study.

the two-tower IROOTECH complex by SOM boasts an external diamond structure and will include an elevated podium connecting both buildings.

The site is located in an area earmarked as a smart new business district, near a marina and consists mainly of a tower of top grade offices above a podium containing a generous amount of retail space for the display and sale of luxury cars. The tower is contained within an outer layer of a shimmering veil to provide shading. Part of the way up the tower is an alcove with space for an amenity garden as well as a restaurant, and this includes a private restaurant for the owner himself. Location: Doha, Qatar, Middle East Services : Concept Design  Status : Competition Entry 2013 Type : Commercial, Offices