Corporate and Commercial
| 1 World Trade Center, New York | ||
The memorial is in the foreground; clockwise from left, Tower One; Tower Two; Port Authority transportation building; Tower Three and Tower Four. |
1 World Trade Center site plan. |
1 World Trade Center marks the rebirth of a major financial and commercial hub. |
The square shape of 1 World Trade Center rotates until the 102nd-floor square has turned 45° from the 20th-floor square. |
1 World Trade Center curtain walling. |
West plaza of 1 World Trade Center. |
1 World Trade Center ground floor plan. |
1 World Trade Center lobby. |
Below grade. |
| 16 Noel Street, | ||
Morgan Lovell pooled its experts to transform the old office into a model of sustainability. |
16 Noel Street reception. |
Morgan Lovell Headquarters interior. |
| 28 Dorset Square, | ||
28 Dorset Square was converted for office use in the 1960s. |
The strategy was, firstly, to carefully restore the Grade II-listed Georgian building's façades. |
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| 505 Fifth Avenue, New York | ||
505 Fifth Avenue is under construction in New York's business district of Manhattan. |
By New York standards, 505 Fifth Avenue is a low-rise complex, rising 125m over 28 stories. |
505 Fifth Avenue uses the latest concrete technologies combined with steel and glass. |
| Almoayyed Tower, Manama, Seef | ||
Interior of Almoayyed Tower, showing retail outlet floor. |
Interior of Almoayyed Tower, showing elevator entrances. |
Interior of Almoayyed Tower, showing entrance foyer. |
Plans of Floors 1 to 8. |
Plans of Floors 9 and above. |
Open plan office space in Almoayyed Tower. |
Typical office layout in Almoayyed Tower. |
View of Almoayyed Tower from the ground looking upwards. |
View of Almoayyed Tower, April 2004. |
| ARB Bank, Riyadh | ||
ARB, the farmers' bank, was conceived as a series of earth-forms within an active farmland. |
The interlocked arrangement of the precinct creates a series of courtyards to maximise the interaction. |
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| Arola Restaurant, Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid | ||
The Arola's Madrid Restaurant at the new Reina Sofia Museum is a giant installation in glistering red zinc and concrete. |
The Arola restaurant is an 'absolutely modern' cool and stunning restaurant that uses cutting-edge technology. |
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| AstraZeneca, Alderley Park, Cheshire | ||
The building is the latest stage of a phased £240m site redevelopment master planned by Swedish architect Gert Wingårdh. |
The building is as open as possible allowing a variety of meeting rooms and other interaction areas within it. |
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| Bahrain World Trade Centre, | ||
The sail-shaped towers are inspired by Arabian wind towers. |
The Bahrain World Trade Centre development uses a great deal of energy saving technology. |
The shape of the two towers is essential in developing the wind stream for the turbines. |
The two towers are linked by three bridges each bearing a wind turbine. |
The Bahrain World Trade Centre project has provided a benchmark for adoption of energy-producing technology. |
The wind turbine technology was engineered by Atkins, and Ramboll&Norwin. |
| BMW Car Production Plant, Leipzig | ||
BMW's new car plant in Leipzig, Germany. |
Conveyors move car body shells through the central building. |
Office terraces overlook the car conveyors. |
Body shop production line. |
The terraces create a kind of loose-knit social hierarchy. |
The plant officially opened on 13 May 2005. |
The three main factory building satellites. |
Internal view of the central building during construction. |
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| Burj Dubai (Dubai Tower) | ||
The main centrepiece of Dubai Mall, Waterworld, will incorporate a water terrace, fountain oasis, waterfront atrium and an aquarium. |
Water Terrace - view from Doha Road. |
The aquarium will be three storeys tall and feature glass 'walk-through' tunnels that will contain exotic marine life. |
Resembling an ocean liner from the outside, the interior of the Mall will accommodate over 1,000 individual shops |
The Dubai Mall project comprises a 5 million ft² mall, residential and retail facilities. |
Location of Dubai Mall in the shadow of Burj Dubai. |
Night shot of the outside of the Dubai Mall. |
The three-storey glass façade Mall will house the world's largest gold market. |
Burj Dubai (Dubai Tower) will be the world's tallest building when it is completed in 2007. |
The Burj Tower across the ‘World’ development in Dubai. |
The top floors are now being added to produce a tower of over 800m. |
The development will give Dubai a world-class shopping mall and a superb centrepiece for the city. |
| Central Bank of Kuwait (CBK) Headquarters, | ||
The CBK's new and spectacular headquarters building is of a unique design which will include all the very latest high-tech gadgetry and building techniques. |
The building's design is based around a triangular, truncated pyramid tower, composed of geometric shapes which echo the geometry and order of traditional Kuwaiti architecture. |
Topping the building will be an all-glass viewing platform lit internally and externally to form a distinctive beacon at night. |
| China Central Television (CCTV) | ||
The new Beijing skyline. |
The façade of the leaning, conjoined towers was completed before the Olympic Games. |
The CCTV towers are at the centre of a new media park. |
The CCTV towers were joined in December 2007. |
The external skin of the CCTV building has a diagrid exoskeleton to provide strength. |
The CCTV building underwent a special review prior to construction starting. |
The new CCTV building will be able to broadcast 200 TV channels. |
The new headquarters of China Central Television (CCTV) was completed in time to broadcast the 2008 Beijing Olympics. |
The L-shaped high-rise towers were designed by Rem Koolhass of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA). |
The horizontal and vertical sections will establish the tower as an earth bound structure and not a 'skyscraper'. |
The structure of the building involves two 60° leaning towers that are bent at 90° at the top and bottom. |
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| Cocoon, | ||
Cocoon is located in Zurich's Seefeld district on a beautiful hillside. |
Cocoon is one continuous spiral floor. |
Cocoon's elliptical floors. |
| Comcast Center, Philadelphia, PA | ||
Artist's impression of Comcast Center, the tallest building in Philadelphia. |
Comcast Center is located above the railway station at 17th Street and JKF Boulevard in the centre of Philadelphia. |
Comcast Center is eligible for LEED Certification from the US Green Building Council. |
The original plan for Comcast Center provided for 50 floors but this was increased to 57 in January 2004. |
Construction work on Comcast Center began in January 2005. |
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| Cosmo Grill, Munich | ||
Cosmo Grill is a blend of the profanity of a fast food snack bar with the sophistication of Japanese dining. |
The Cosmo chandelier visualises the immaterial gravitational lines as a negative outline produced from light. |
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| Deichtor Office Building, Hamburg | ||
The Deichtor office building, Hamburg, Germany. |
The winter gardens give an all year round positive benefit for the user. |
The Deichtor office building is a naturally ventilated building with minimum investment and running costs for heating, ventilation and lighting. |
| Dockland Office Building, Hamburg | ||
The Dockland office building in Hamburg, Germany. |
The Dockland office building's fully glazed front façade projects 47m over the river Elbe. |
The Dockland has a rhomboid form constructed from steel and glass. |
| Dubai International Financial Centre, Dubai | ||
The DIFC is designed to be 'a universally recognised hub for institutional finance and the regional gateway for capital investment in the Middle East'. |
The master plan proposes a series of different districts, each with their own distinctive characters. |
Dubai aims for a modern free trade zone that will compete with established financial centres. |
| Fabios Restaurant Façade, Vienna | ||
The façade of the Fabios restaurant in Vienna. |
The glass façade can be opened like a theatre curtain. |
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| Fiera di Milano Exhibition Centre, Milan | ||
The Fiera di Milano exhibition and convention centre, designed by Massimiliano Fuksas, has given Italy's most stylish city a radical new makeover. |
Massimiliano Fuksas, architect of the Fiera di Milano exhibition and convention centre. |
The glass and steel structure above the walkway is reminiscent of the natural forms of hills and mountains. |
Including additional spaces in the walkway and a separate congress hall, the site offers 80 conference halls. There are also 20 restaurants and 25 bars. |
Sculptural elements have also been added to maintain visual interest, notably the spiral structure and depression at the complex's centre. |
Water plays an important role in the landscaping design. From the walkway, the overall picture is one of water features alternating with trees. |
| Freedom Tower (Building Information Modelling), | ||
Manhattan's Freedom Tower has set new standards in the use of Building Information Modelling (BIM). |
The Freedom Tower's architects, along with the project's structural and mechanical engineers, are able to work from elements of one model instead of separate documents. |
CSG used Revit and AutoCAD to model the tower's foundations, buttress slabs, core walls and columns on the original designs. |
Rather than working on 2D drawings, which will only later be turned into a 3D model, designers are able to see exactly how a structure is affected as they go along. |
When designing the Freedom Tower, users found that with the 3D model they could go into their complex design in an intuitive, easy-to-learn manner. |
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| GSC Offices, | ||
The pixelated Central Park art. |
Meeting room. |
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| Guangzhou TV and Sightseeing Tower | ||
At 610m, the Guangzhou TV tower will be one of the tallest buildings on the banks of the Pearl River. |
The non-symmetrical form portraying the building 'in movement' has led to the tower being nicknamed the 'super-model'. |
At the top, a terraced observation square rises above the tower's top ring. |
Each floor has been designed differently with regard to size, exposure, users and events. |
By early 2008, about half of the steel structure had been assembled above the ground. |
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| Gyre Building, | ||
The Gyre design incorporates external stairways and elevators linking the terraces. |
On the upper levels of the Gyre building there are several smaller shops and different restaurants. |
Gyre is a multi-purpose retail complex including big name shops and designers such as Chanel, Bulgari, MoMA Design Store (first outside the US) and Maison Martin Margiela. |
The Gyre exterior of crumpled ceramic tiles. |
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| Home Couture, Berlin | ||
Home Couture is a showroom, more like a high-end fashion store, for a selection of tiles and spa accessories. |
Home Couture's illuminated back wall appears to oscillate as you wander past it. |
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| IT Fornebu, Oslo | ||
IT Fornebu in Olso, Norway. |
IT Fornebu was built on the site of the old Oslo airport. |
ITFE bought the terminal building and surrounding area to create an IT and innovation centre. |
| La Rioja Technology Transfer Centre, | ||
The La Rioja technology centre site is close to the Zaragoza Avenue, a major motorway on the northern outskirts. |
Climbing plants entwined round a series of cables will form a leafy canopy in a couple of years. |
The façade of the La Rioja technology centre is made from steel and glass, with timber for the pavements and drywall as partitions. |
The main classrooms and offices are organised along a corridor, which is linked to the main public spaces. |
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| Le Phare (The Lighthouse), Paris | ||
Le Phare will dominate the area providing excellent views across the city. |
The environmental aspects of the Lighthouse project are worthy of note. |
Le Phare is futuristic but seems to fit in really well. |
Extensive modelling work has been done on the Lighthouse project. |
Le Phare's supports are 'tripod like'. |
The new Le Phare tower will regenerate the whole La Défense district. |
| Media-TIC, Barcelona | ||
Set in the new science and technology district of 22@Barcelona, the €20.8m Media-TIC building houses both office space for ICT businesses and exhibition space open to the general public. |
The Media-TIC façades are made of the eco-efficient material ethylene tetrafluoroethylene (ETFE) cladding. |
In line with the pro-technology theme of the site, project architect and founder of Cloud 9 Enric Ruiz Geli made technology a central part of the building's creation. |
Offices will occupy the low-density central levels (two to five), while the upper levels will have high-density structural support for smaller spaces including more offices, bathrooms, roof terraces and courtyards. |
The Media-TIC frames consist of metal fink truss-style beams made of seven and eight-section forged-metal girders. |
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| Minerva Building, London | ||
The Minerva Building is described as looking much like a series of four books standing on their sides. |
A unique cladding system will be used to control energy use inside the buildings. |
The sleek façade of the Minerva Building will add to the renaissance of London's skyline. |
| MobileLifeCampus, Wolfsberg | ||
The central idea behind the MobileLifeCampus project design is an encircling, crossed-over and apparently neverending band. |
Cast in concrete, the MobileLifeCampus picks out the tectonics of the buildings as a central theme. |
The campus has a five-cornered atrium that rises over four floors. |
| Moscow International Business Centre (MIBC), | ||
Map showing the location of the new Moscow International Business Centre (MIBC). |
City Hall [right] and Aqua City Palace [extreme left]. |
Plot 9 - Capital City. |
Plot 10 - Naberezhnaya Tower. |
The Naberezhnaya Tower is a new office and apartment complex. |
Plot 13 - Federatsiya (Federation) office complex. |
The Federatsiya office complex is to consist of two towers, one 57 storeys high and the other 87 storeys. |
Russia Tower on Plot 16 could be the tallest building in the world when constructed |
Plot 19 - Northern Towers. |
A mini-metro line is also being constructed to provide transportation within the MIBC and to connect with the historical centre of Moscow. |
There will be three stations along the mini-metro line. |
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| New England Biolabs (NEB), Ipswich, Massachusetts | ||
The design goals were to create a leading-edge laboratory and manufacturing facility. |
The exterior building skin is a combination of custom, pre-patinated copper panels and a glass curtain wall system. |
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| New York Times Tower, NY | ||
Eighth Avenue facade looking northeast. |
40th Street elevation. |
The roof garden. |
Night view of the garden in the base. |
The location of the New York Times Tower prior to land clearance. |
New York skyline showing the position of the Tower. |
Design of the office space inside the Tower. |
Model showing height of Tower in relation to other tall buildings in the New York City vicinity. |
Ceramic screen that will surround the outside of the Tower. |
Proposed interior of New York Times offices. |
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| Novartis Campus Main Gate and Car Park, Basel | ||
The roof construction lies free of any steel structures on the supporting glass underneath, which creates the appearance of lightness despite its weight. |
The ceiling height creates a sense of spaciousness and does not at any time give the feeling that one is in an underground car park. |
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| Okhta Centre, | ||
The 77ha Okhta Centre will include a 396m-tall glass tower. |
The atrium of the Okhta Centre tower, overlooking the Okhta Valley. |
The Okhta tower will be the first super skyscraper in St Petersburg. |
| OpTIC Technium, St Asaph | ||
Main elevation of OpTIC, showing the cantilevered business centre and 1,000m² PV wall array. |
Photovoltaic wall with reflection / rainwater harvesting pond to base. |
Zinc, recycled waste slate external paving and cedar cladding unite at the entrance to the building. |
Naturally vented street linking the incubator units on the ground and first floors to the technical centre. |
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| Pfizer Pharmaceutical Headquarters, Prague | ||
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