TBI-onderneming J.P. van Eesteren start op 1 april met de oplevering van de getransformeerde A’DAM Toren aan het IJ in Amsterdam. In opdracht van de vier partners; Sander Groet, Hans Brouwer, Duncan Stutterheim en Lingotto verbouwde J.P. van Eesteren het voormalig Shell kantoor tot een kloppend hart voor de creatieve- en muziekindustrie. Na een verbouwtijd van circa anderhalf jaar wordt de A’DAM Toren op 1 april in zijn geheel opgeleverd.

De afgelopen week leverde J.P. van Eesteren de ondergrondse parkeergarage en de verdiepingen acht tot en met twintig op aan opdrachtgever Lingotto. Zij dragen de afgebouwde ruimtes over aan hun huurders, waaronder A’DAM Six Senses en MassiveMusic. Morgen worden de resterende verdiepingen opgeleverd en overgedragen. Daaronder vallen grotendeels de eerste zeven lagen van de A’DAM Toren, waarin een hotel wordt gevestigd. Op het moment zijn de huurders aan het werk met de afbouw van de verschillende verdiepingen. Begin mei betrekt de eerste huurder het gebouw.

Gedurende de transformatie heeft J.P. van Eesteren in de A’DAM Toren een aantal innovatieve, bouwkundige hoogstandjes uitgevoerd. Zo beschikt het gebouw nu over een nieuwe stalen kroon met een uitkragende, overhoekse vorm, die steunt op een kern van tien bij tien meter. Om het geprefabriceerde geheel op zijn plek te hijsen, was de grootste mobiele kraan van Europa nodig, met een hijsvermogen van 1.200 ton.

Bovenop de nieuwe kroon prijkt een stalen windvaan die bijdraagt aan de duurzaamheid van de A’DAM Toren door de windgestuurde ventilatiekanalen. Verder is er een innovatieve tweelaagse ronde vliesgevel tussen de toren en de kroon bevestigd, zonder gebruik te maken van stijlen, wat zorgt voor een onbelemmerd uitzicht over de stad en het IJ. Daarnaast heeft J.P. van Eesteren de toren voorzien van een geheel vernieuwde gevel. De bouwer heeft het vermalen betongranulaat van de gesloopte gevel gebruikt als grondstof voor het betonmortel bij de bouw van het uiterst duurzame hotel in het Amstelkwartier, eveneens in Amsterdam.

J.P. van Eesteren startte in juni 2014 met de werkzaamheden aan het voormalig Shell kantoor. De multifunctionele A’DAM Toren krijgt een observatiepunt, hotel, club, kantoren voor de creatieve industrie en diverse horeca waaronder een ronddraaiend restaurant. A’DAM staat voor Amsterdam Dance And Music en zal de toonaangevende positie van Nederland in de muziek en creatieve sector verder uitbouwen. Lingotto heeft A’DAM samen met Sander Groet, Hans Brouwer en Duncan Stutterheim ontwikkeld. Het ontwerp is van Claus van Wageningen Architecten. J.P. van Eesteren legde eind maart 2016 de laatste hand aan de ingrijpende verbouwing. 

Stefano Boeri, an architect from Italy, has come up with the concept of a residential skyscraper that looks similar to an enormous jungle. Extending for a length of 117 meters, it will be built in Lausanne, Switzerland and will contain over 100 cedar trees, 6000 shrubs and 18,000 plants, which will be spread across an area of 3000 square meters. It will also be called as The Cedar Trees Tower, or La Tour des Cedres. It will be the first building in the world to be filled with evergreen trees and residents staying in any floor would be able to be close to trees. This structure will come up in the Chavannes-Pres-Renes district and will be a residential apartment overlooking the Lake Geneva. This building will also comprise of gyms, offices and a restaurant offering a scenic view of the entire area around. When constructed, this will be the second building planned by Boeri that is rich in biodiversity. Read on >>>

Van boven is Amsterdam een zee van laagbouw met hier en daar een toren. Maar de skyline van de stad verandert snel. Komende jaren komen er meer dan 25 torens bij. Is dat eigenlijk veel en hoe verandert dit het beeld van de stad?

Om te zien hoe de skyline van Amsterdam verandert, moet je eigenlijk niet op een toren klimmen, maar juist op de grond blijven en kijken waar hekken en borden verschijnen, waar heimachines stampen en betonvlechters in de weer zijn.

De skyline van Amsterdam verandert in hoog tempo door journalist Tijs van den Boomen

A new report released the 9th of March, 2016, reveals there are an additional 119 new tall buildings planned for London since this time last year. This takes the total number of tall buildings in the pipeline to 436. The research, which is updated annually, is published by New London Architecture (NLA) and GLHearn (part of Capita Real Estate) and includes buildings of 20 floors and over.

‘This survey provides a snapshot of the changing shape and scale of 21st century London. The pipeline of tall buildings continues to grow, although their listing here is no guarantee that they will all be built. A softening of the top end of the housing market, a resurgence in demand for commercial property, and the uncertainties surrounding the EU referendum all complicate the forecasting of completion dates for this current crop of tall buildings. It will be a couple of decades before we see their full impact. Towers take longer to build than lower buildings and they are impossible to phase; following the financial crash of 2007-8, a number of tall buildings were put on ice thus extending their delivery time – The Leadenhall Building took some 14 years from design to completion, and 20 Fenchurch Street took over a decade. The developer of the Greenwich Peninsula, where some 32 towers are proposed, is looking at a 20-year phased programme.’

‘Contemporary tall buildings are an efficient use of land that can provide high quality homes, a range of uses and very significant wider planning benefits. Well-designed tall buildings, in the right location, should be a really positive addition to London as a global city. This Survey provides a valuable insight into what is actually happening in terms of proposals for tall buildings in London. Taking into account the total estimated pipeline of tall buildings, it is clear that the majority are located within key clusters around London, mainly within the Opportunity Areas that have been identified by the Mayor as locations capable of making a significant contribution to London’s needs for new homes and jobs.’

As part of the search for the Best Skyscraper of 2015, the following selection looks at the most striking new skyscrapers of Europe. The current Elite Eight tournament already has Moscow’s 354 meter-tall OKO-tower present, and together with the ones below they define Tall Europe in 2015. The traditional skyscraper cities, such as Frankfurt, Warsaw and de La Defence area in Paris are absent. Istanbul had a couple but they didn’t make the cut and boomtown London has just one horse in the race, albeit a purple one, which is indeed quite an uncommon facade color. Intead, cities like Seville, Lyon, Turin, Basel take the stage this year. Here is the voting bracket which decides which one will represent Europe in the grand finale.

With its 80 years of experience in bringing together architecture and structural engineering Skidmore, Owings & Merrill remains groundbreaking to this day, particularly in the construction of gigantic skyscrapers, the so-called “supertalls”.

The exhibition and the accompanying DETAIL volume present the approaches, the roots and the theoretical background of the SOM Structural Group. One central question is how far architecture can go – in terms of height. Typical structural concepts and [more]

The rise of the supertalls has been several years in the making, and One57, 432 Park Avenue, and One World Trade Center have offered a preview of the increasingly gargantuan changes taking place across New York City. But 2016 will mark the start of a new era for the city’s skyline. With six supertalls of 300 meters (984 feet) or greater now rising, the city’s total number of such buildings will nearly double, from seven to thirteen. The New York Post featured YIMBY’s compilation of the towers.

Manhattan long held the title of the world’s most impressive skyline, with the boom of the 1920s cementing the island’s status as the skyscraper capital of the globe. The Chrysler Building (at 1,046 feet) and the Empire State Building (at 1,250 feet) marked the city’s first official supertalls, and the ESB held the title of the world’s tallest building until the Twin Towers of the original World Trade Center were completed in the early 1970s.

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A record-breaking total of 106 skyscrapers over 200 metres tall were completed in 2015, and even more are predicted for 2016, according to new industry research.

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Top 9 tallest skyscrapers completing in 2016:

1) Ping An Finance Center, China, by Kohn Pedersen Fox
2) Goldin Finance 117, China, by P&T Group
3) Lotte World Tower, Korea, by Kohn Pedersen Fox
4) CTF Finance Center, China, by Kohn Pedersen Fox
5) Wuhan Center Tower, China, by ECADI
6) Marina 101, UAE, by National Engineering Bureau
7) Eton Place Dalian Tower 1, China, by NBBJ
8) Vostok Tower, Russia, by NPS Tchoban Voss and Schweger Associated Architects
9) Dalian International Trade Center, China, by Dalian Architectural Design & Research Institute

Humanity has become obsessed with breaking its limits, creating new records only to break them again and again. In fact, our cities’ skylines have always been defined by those in power during every period in history. At one point churches left their mark, followed by public institutions and in the last few decades, it’s commercial skyscrapers that continue to stretch taller and taller.

But when it comes to defining which buildings are the tallest it can get complicated. Do antennas and other gadgets on top of the building count as extra meters? What happens if the last floor is uninhabitable? The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) has developed their own system for classifying tall buildings, measuring from the “level of the lowest, significant, open-air, pedestrian entrance to the architectural top of the building, including spires, but not including antennae, signage, flag poles or other functional-technical equipment.” Using this system more than 3,400 buildings have been categorized as over 150 meters tall.

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