People travel the world to see natural waterfalls, but the Chinese create artificial, man-made, 'falling water' on 100-meter skyscrapers. Someone obviously had a crazy idea.
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Those of you who have already visited the Big Apple or New York and walked through Greenwich Village in lower Manhattan, you must have dreamed of living there for a moment. The most free-spirited part of New York serves up every genre of art imaginable. But now it also offers a luxury skyscraper from which you can enjoy the view of the Hudson River.
Lotte World Tower is a 554.5-meter-high skyscraper in Seoul, South Korea, which attracts not only because of its height (it is the tallest building in East Asia) and unusual shape, but also because of the elevator, which is considered the fastest in the world. The building was officially opened on April 3, 2017, and the first lucky ones already had the opportunity to enter the fastest elevator in the world and experience a record-breaking fast ascent to the observation deck with an imposing view.
In Manhattan, New York, skyscrapers are growing taller and taller like mushrooms after the rain. But Greek architect Ioannis Oikonomou hopes to break a new record. His company Oiio Studio has designed a U-shaped tower block called Big Bend, which, if all goes well, will become the 'longest building in the world' (it will measure approximately 1,219 meters in length).
A new architectural wonder is growing in Dubai - Dubai Frame, the Emirati's New Arc de Triomphe (Le Defense). It is about two skyscrapers, which are connected to each other by a viewing platform. The building is expected to open later this year.
In Vienna, in the neighborhood of Seestadt Aspern, the construction of the tallest wooden tower in the world, the HoHo Tower, has begun, which will have 24 floors and will measure an enviable height of 84 meters. It will be completed in autumn 2018.
Skyscraper Party: Halloween high above the city invites all witches, vampires, princesses, werewolves, house elves, green hulks and other fairy and fantasy creatures to join you in Halloween. Good music and dance animation will be provided. The party starts on October 30, 2016 in Ljubljana's one and only Skyscraper.
Although Beyoncé has a huge influence on a large number of people through her music, you wouldn't think that a pop star would become an inspiration for design in architecture…
For more than 40 years, Parisians had to wait for a new skyscraper, but after 1973, a new one will start to grow. The controversial triangular building Tour Triangle was signed by the Herzog & de Meuron office, which revealed the original plans for it back in 2008. The facility will have 120 hotel rooms, an eminent restaurant, a bar and 70,000 square meters of business space. With a height of 180 meters, it will become the third tallest building in Paris.
After last year Vadim Makhorov and Vitaly Raskalov climbed to the top of the future second tallest building in the world, the Shanghai Tower, without climbing equipment and made the internet go crazy with a video on YouTube, this time they took on an equally daring climb to Ping An, the international financial center in Shenzhen. in China's Gaungdong Province. Once built, it will be the tallest building in China and the second tallest in the world (Shanghai Tower will soon become both, but only briefly). And you thought you were cool because you climbed a really tall tree once?!
A new pyramid will rise in Cairo, well, to be precise, a skyscraper that sought its architectural inspiration from the oldest Egyptian architecture, the pyramids. It is the Zayed Crystal Spark urban planning project, which was unveiled by the Minister of Housing Administration. And considering that it is a skyscraper, it will of course be a rather "thinned out" version of the pyramid, which will therefore rise all the more into the sky. It will be as high as 200 meters. For comparison, Cheops measures 138 of them.
New construction projects are growing all over the world, taking on the desired shape and trying to surpass all predecessors in terms of height. It's not just about the physical dimensions, although skyscrapers are setting new limits time and time again - construction costs are also skyrocketing. One World Trade Center in New York is not only one of the tallest buildings in North America, but also the most expensive skyscraper in the world. Emporis compiled a list of the ten most expensive skyscrapers in the world, and we presented them for you in an article.