In March, RECORD cranes its neck to survey a quartet of cloud-brushing projects: A twin-tower development in Dubai linked by a record-breaking cantilever, a new addition to the London skyline with a Jenga-esque form that preserves views of historic sites, a Tokyo high-rise with a transit hub at its base, and the first full-block skyscraper to rise on Manhattan’s Park Avenue in 50 years. Keeping with the tall building theme, March’s special lighting section showcases vertical illumination schemes. Back on terra firma, we profile decidedly less-lanky new projects in Mexico City, Stockholm, Uruguay, Quebec City, and southeast China, and return to Tokyo for March’s stuccoed House of the Month.
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Long, linear, and devoid of visual boundaries, the enchanting floating arts center is one of multiple commissions by the Japanese architect in the Bailuwan development.
Looking at a handful of projects from the 1920s through 1940s, Suzanne Stephens traces shifting attitudes toward tall buildings in architectural criticism.
This project's polemical suggestion—office tower as oversized doric column—reflected the architect's quixotic response to one of the period's defining challenges.
The San Francisco–based co-founder of Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects is remembered as a mentor, a pioneer of sustainable design, and a firm believer that architecture should serve people of all backgrounds and abilities.
L'Observatoire International's lighting scheme for the Pelli Clarke & Partners–designed Mori JP Tower employs curves, lines, and gradients to elegant effect.