Architecture reporter India Block picks 10 of the year’s best skyscrapers for our review of 2018, from one sporting a 100 -metre-high waterfall to the northernmost tower block in the world.
Generali Tower, Italy, by Zaha Hadid Architects
Towering 170 metres over Milan, the Generali Tower conveys Zaha Hadid Architects’ signature curves in a helical spin that runs through the tower.
No two floorings are aligned within the 44 -storey skyscraper, hence the nickname “the twisted one”. Now the city’s third-tallest structure, it stands together with Arata Isozaki’s 202 -metre high-pitched Allianz Tower and the incomplete 175 -metre towering PwC tower by Studio Libeskind on Milan’s onetime expo site.
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Liebian International Building, China, by Ludi Industry Group
The stand-out feature of the 121 -metre tall Liebian International Building is clearly the cataract cascading down one facade of the tower.
One of the largest spray is available in countries around the world, the 108 -metre-high fountain is powered by four spouts fed from an underground tank to be completed by rainwater and runoff. It’s so expensive to drain that it has reportedly merely been turned on a handful of meters since it was installed.
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Three World Trade Center, USA, by Roger Stirk Harbour+ Partners
Roger Stirk Harbour+ Partners accomplished construction on New York City’s Three World Trade Center in 2018, which stands next to the plaque fountains that tag where the Twin Towers stood before the 9/11 terrorist attack.
At 329 metres high, the Manhatten skyscraper is the fifth tallest in the city. Its 80 floorings are surrounded by 10,000 floor-to-ceiling glass committees, with sword girders organizing a K-shaped lattice up the side.
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Ping An Finance Centre, China, by KPF
Shenzhen’s Ping An Finance Centre, which technically ended just before the end of last year, is now the fourth tallest building in the world.
At a height of 599 metres, the KFP-designed supertall is defined by chevron-shaped columns at its four regions. Sky lobbies punctuate the glass and stone fortres, and the very top is a publicly accessible observation deck built to receive 9,000 visitors a day.
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Duo, Singapore, by Buro Ole Scheeren
A honeycomb of hexagonal window chassis submerge the swerving facades of these twinned skyscrapers in Singapore by Buro Ole Scheeren.
Duo is modelled of 186- and 170 metre-high fortress with concave facades that frame a brand-new public plaza. Rooftop garden-varieties and terraces sit on cantilevered divisions jutting from the pillars, which create their own “oasis-like” microclimate, thanks to a influence designed to create passive cooling.
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Salesforce Tower, USA, by Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects
This gradually tapering glass pillar in San Francisco is a 326 -metre-high obelisk. Now San Franciso’s tallest skyscraper, it eclipsed the 260 -metre-high Transamerica Pyramid that had contained the claim since 1972.
Criss-crossing louvres shade the building from the California sun. Glass walls continue past the top floor, generate a translucent crown that is illuminated up at night.
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Lakhta Centre, Russia, by RMJM and Gorproject
St Petersburg now has the tallest skyscraper in Europe, the 462 -metre-high Lakhta Centre. Designed by Tony Kettle for RMJM and completed by Gorproject, the supertall build too claims to be the “northernmost skyscraper in the world”.
Influenced by the Peter and Paul Cathedral, the distort spire-shaped skyscraper tapers to a fine detail. Its facade is worded from 16,500 cases of curving glass.
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China Assets Headquarters, China, by KPF
Known locally as Spring Bamboo, the bullet-shaped China Riches Headquarters rises 400 metres over the city of Shenzhen. The facade is defined by 59 sword columns that gather at the top to create a diagrid pattern.
The columns give the tower greater structural stability, may be required for swathes of column-free space inside. The tip of the building enclose a 68.4 -metre-high “sky hall” with viewpoints out over the city.
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Jade Signature, USA, by Herzog& de Meuron
Herzog& de Meuron’s Jade Signature is a residential tower in Miami filled with 192 condominiums. Concrete slabs widen from a concrete core to make terraces with judgments over the ocean.
The 57 -storey tower has a parallelogram footprint and decreases slightly towards the top. The column and undersides of the concrete are subtly patterned, and the glass handrails tilt to escape showing the sun’s glare.
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NBBJ designed three prodigious sky connects for the Shenzhen headquarters of Tencent- the Chinese tech firm that’s large than Facebook. The “vertical campus” is structured of two glass and aluminium pillars connected by these aluminium louvred bridges.
One tower is 50 storeys high-pitched and the other 39, and equipment include a library and a health centre. There’s even a running track that loops between the two towers.
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