Amazon’s Arlington Headquarters to Highlight Helix March 01, 2021 Plans designed by architecture firm NBBJ have been submitted for Amazon’s new headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, near the United States Capitol. One of the four buildings will be shaped like a double helix and offer two walkable paths of landscaped terrain. The 350-ft.-tall tower, dubbed “The Helix,” will be the centerpiece of the PenPlace campus, […] Read More
Trouble in the Sky March 01, 2021 The supertall tower at 432 Park Avenue, New York City, was the tallest residential building in the world when it was built in 2015. Extremely tall, narrow “pencil” towers have been popping up in Manhattan’s skyline. According to The New York Times, more than 20 buildings that are more than 1,000 ft. tall have been […] Read More
Shenzen Museum Will Flow Like a River January 01, 2021 Plans have been accepted for Southern China’s first large-scale museum of natural history. The Shenzen Natural History Museum, to be built in the Yanzi Lake area of Shenzhen’s Pingshan District in Guangdong, China, ran a design competition which received over 70 proposals internationally. The winning design, entitled “Delta,” was by 3XN, B+H Architects, and Zhubo […] Read More
Europe’s Largest Green Façade Completed in Düsseldorf October 01, 2020 Nearly 30,000 hornbeam hedges form the “cladding” for Kö-Bogen II, a new building in Gustaf-Gründgens-Platz (plaza), Düsseldorf, Germany. Ingenhoven Architects, the project’s designer, said they didn’t want the new structure to compete with the existing buildings in the plaza, so it had to be completely different. Beneath the greenery lies 450,000 sq. ft. of office […] Read More
Public Works Building Uses Roads as Design Motif September 01, 2020 A public works department in Bexar County, San Antonio, TX, has a unique approach to the design of various aspects of their new building. They’ve created a motif using “an abstracted map of the major county roads,” which is repeated in various locations throughout the building. The motif appears on a perforated screen on the […] Read More
