Enthusiasm for Building Tall Endures Joann Gonchar, FAIA March 4, 2024 No Comments There's a new "world's second tallest" building, in Malysia, while the one vying for first place—the Jeddah Tower—resumes work.Read More
Tall Buildings 2024 March 1, 2024 No Comments This month's issue of RECORD looks at the latest crop of tall and supertall buildings rising around the globe.Read More
Twin Skyscrapers in Dubai Break a Mold, and a World Record Too Leopoldo Villardi March 1, 2024 2 Comments One Za'abeel—designed by Japan's oldest architecture firm, Nikken Sekkei—raises the bar in a city full of pastiche towers.Read More
WilkinsonEyre's London Tower Navigates Planning Mandates with Nuanced Form and Clever Engineering London Joann Gonchar, FAIA March 1, 2024 No Comments A carefully considered response to its urban context, 8 Bishopsgate's stepped and subtly rotated volumes preserve views of historic sites.Read More
Leo Villareal Punctuates Tokyo's Toranomon Hills Station Tower with Dynamic Illumination Tokyo Josephine Minutillo March 1, 2024 No Comments The artist's 126-foot-long light installation on the underside of the project's sky bridge encourages connection to the cosmos.Read More
A Full-Block Office Building Rises on Park Avenue for the First Time in Half a Century New York Clifford A. Pearson March 1, 2024 No Comments Foster + Partners' commercial tower on New York's fanciest boulevard combines old-school grandeur with flexible function.Read More
Subtle Moves with Outsize Impact—Day and Night—Enhance Japan’s Tallest Building Tokyo Leopoldo Villardi March 1, 2024 No Comments L'Observatoire International's lighting scheme for the Pelli Clarke & Partners–designed Mori JP Tower employs curves, lines, and gradients to elegant effect.Read More
Hangzhou Century Center's Lighting Array Embraces Spectacle Hangzhou, China Matthew Marani March 1, 2024 No Comments Six thousand LEDs illuminate this SOM–designed tower, emphasizing its sweeping facade.Read More
RECORD Forum Gothic Shadow: On SHoP’s Brooklyn Supertall Izzy Kornblatt September 11, 2023 One Comment The Brooklyn Tower forces the public to grapple with the genre of the supertall.Read More
3XN’s Quay Quarter Tower in Sydney Transforms and Expands an Outmoded 1970s Skyscraper Joann Gonchar, FAIA May 18, 2023 One Comment In reinventing an aging Sydney office tower, the Danish firm offers an alternative to demolition.Read More