BIG’s VIA 57 West has been unanimously chosen as the winner of the 2016 International Highrise Award (IHA) for the world’s most innovative highrise.
One of the world’s most important architectural prizes for tall buildings, the award is presented by Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM) every two years to the project that best exemplifies the criteria of future-oriented design, functionality, innovative building technology, integration into urban development schemes, sustainability, and cost-effectiveness.
Exhibition Best High-Rises 2016\17 | November 4, 2016 – January 15, 2017
Five notable projects have been selected as finalists for the 2016
Amsterdam krijgt in 2019 een eerste houten wolkenkrabber, met maar liefst 21 verdiepingen. Het project heeft de naam HAUT en het wordt het hoogste houten appartementengebouw van Europa. Al is er concurrentie.
For well over 200 years, the dome of St Paul’s Cathedral presided over the
FIRST Rotterdam is een 128 meter hoog kantoorgebouw aan het Weena recht tegenover het Centraal Station. De locatie bevindt zich op de overgang van het Central Business District naar de 19e eeuwse woonwijken van het Oude Westen.
Martijn Sandberg has realised a site-specific artwork on the Southern facade of First, a new build project on the Weena in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
De gemeenteraad van Rotterdam heeft donderdag 8 september het aangepaste bestemmingsplan voor de Gedempte Zalmhaven goedgekeurd. Hierdoor is de weg vrij voor de 215 meter hoge Zalmhaventoren die ontwikkelaars AM en Amvest er willen bouwen.
Developers are keeping Chicago architects and construction crews very busy this summer as the list of active high-rise projects continues to grow. At this point in time, the city has 44 such projects underway. Since this March, eleven developments have joined the list, while previously featured projects MILA, Marquee at Block 37, 4 E. Elm, LondonHouse Hotel, City Hyde Park, Kenect, 1333 S. Wabash, and The Parker Fulton Market opened for business and have been removed. The towers that join the list this round include: Vista Tower, 465 N. Park, Alta Roosevelt, 8 E. Huron, 3Eleven Illinois, 215 W. Hubbard/412 N. Wells, 625 W. Adams, 1001 W. Chicago, 165 N. Des Plaines, The Aberdeen, Fulton West, and the Lakeshore LDS Meetinghouse.