The Intempo skyscraper in Benidorm, Spain—standing proud in this image—was designed to be a striking symbol of hope and prosperity, to signal to the rest of the world that the city was escaping the financial crisis. Sadly, the builders forgot to include a working elevator.
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What happens when you give Shanghai’s financial district 26 years and a few billion dollars of makeover money? This miraculous transformation, which hit a staggering 2,073-feet-high just this past Saturday when the Shanghai Tower became the world’s second tallest building.
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University of Ohio’s Central Chiller Plant is chill because it has to be—it supplies water and emergency power to the university’s medical district. But thanks to its facade covered in prismatic fins, it’s also chill in the non-literal sense of the word.
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Google’s about to invest a staggering amount of money in building a new UK head office, with the company applying to create an enormous, 11-storey HQ in the renovated King’s Cross area of London.
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Pininfarina: you may know it as the high-end Italian firm that designs fast, expensive cars like Ferraris. Now, for the first time, its designers are branching out into residential design with a condominium in Singapore. And it looks like the cars they design.
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Dubai’s Burj Khalifa skyscraper is a lot of things: a testament to humankind’s love of building humungous stuff for the hell of it. It’s very shiny! And in a bad storm, it sounds like it’s about to fall apart. More »
The Nord LB Building is freaking crazy. Located in Hanover, Germany, it’s home to one of the country’s largest banks and is far too absurd to be home to a financial institution. More »
When buildings grow past their prime, they usually reach their demolition fate—a cobbled, dusty mess—through dynamite explosion. It’s a crashing spectacle of destruction. Loud, angry and ruthless. But maybe it doesn’t have to be like that. Maybe it can be subtle, quite and peaceful. Maybe it can be a strategic floor-by-floor demoltion like the skyscraper in the video above. More »
Normally you might consider a smokestack to be something of an eye-sore, but this “Sky Stack” Is very much the opposite. With parts of it seemingly missing, the whole thing turns into an awesome fixture. More »
The final plans for Spijkenisse’s—a small town in the Netherlands—stunning new library were revealed back in 2009 when construction began. But now that the Book Mountain + Library Quarter is complete and open to the public, we’re finally getting our first actual glimpses of its pyramid-like facade and gorgeous mountain of books inside. More »
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