The Technology Entertainment and Knowledge Center – aka TEK Taipei – is a dense urban block of all kinds of activities related to contemporary technology.
SIRUSERI, India — A massive futuristic office complex is rising from a patch of spare, arid land here near the southern Indian city of Chennai. Six butterfly-shaped buildings dock like spacecraft to two long metal-latticed terminals.
The high-rise as a building typology has traditionally been treated as a static, fixed strategy; the tower is reduced to a technocratic, engineering ‘solution’ governed by specific economic factors.
Austrian architects PSA have completed an interior project for a law firm in Vienna. The project involved extending the firm’s existing office and providing new circulation.
Stone Towers development is part of the wider Stone Park development which derives its name from an ancient petrifi ed tree at the heart of the development.The New Cairo City site optimally positions the Stone Towers to offer state of ....
The organisation of the building exploits the obvious sequence of front to back for the phasing of public/busy to more withdrawn/quiet activities.The façade envelope is pulled in under a large diagonally projecting top floor.
This is the text of a phone interview with Bill Baker, structural engineer on the Burj Khalifa and partner of S.O.M, on the day after the Burj Khalifa was inaugurated.
