Sentences with phrase «skyscraper designed»

Hoping that the second time is the charm, Chicago - based Orix Real Estate Equities Inc. is again set to sell Burnham Center, a 21 - story office building that was the last skyscraper designed by its namesake Daniel Burnham's firm before his death.

The historic 21 - story office building was the last skyscraper designed by Daniel Burnham's firm before his death.

Early renderings have emerged of The Wall Street Tower, a 61 - storey skyscraper designed by British architect David Adjaye for Downtown Manhattan.

Park Hyatt New York occupies the first 25 floors of the 90 - story One57 skyscraper designed by architect Christian de Portzamparc and located in midtown Manhattan.

Housed in a skyscraper designed by renowned architect Mies van der Rohe, it is mere minutes from the Loop, Grant Park, and the glittering Magnificent Mile.

Dubbed the «Jenga Tower,» this 58 - story skyscraper designed by Rhode: Partners will be Austin's tallest building when complete in late 2018.

In the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, he studied the structural weaknesses that allowed fire to bring down the Twin Towers in hopes of improving skyscraper design.

The word «modernism» in building design was first used in America during the 1880s to describe skyscrapers designed by the Chicago School of Architecture (1880 - 1910), such as The Montauk Building (1882 - 83) designed by Burnham and Root; the Home Insurance Building (1884) designed by William Le Baron Jenney; and the Marshall Field Warehouse (1885 - 7) designed by Henry Hobson Richardson.

eVolo Magazine has an annual competition of skyscraper design.

The Evolo Competition «recognizes outstanding ideas that redefine skyscraper design through the use of new technologies, materials, programs, aesthetics, and spatial organizations, along

Not exact matches

Vancouver residential developer PortLiving nabs the Pritzker - prize winning architect to design the world's tallest «hybrid» wooden skyscraper

But the hybrid design may itself represent a breakthrough for a market - driven project — moving beyond the us - versus - them dichotomy and simply incorporating wood into skyscraper construction for all the right reasons.

Michelle has designed everything from skyscrapers to boutiques, but her desire to understand how a space makes us feel sent her back to graduate school for a Spatial Morphology degree (who knew there was such a thing?).

This 1,070 - foot - tall office skyscraper, designed by Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects, will become the centerpiece of the San Francisco Transbay redevelopment plan, which contains a mix of office, transportation, retail, and residential uses.

Engineers and architects will use Minecraft to design everything from toasters to skyscrapers.

This 62 - story skyscraper, which will house 83 luxury condos, was designed by the late Pritzker Prize - winning architect Zaha Hadid.

SUPERTALL SCRUTINY In presenting the changes that have occurred in the design of skyscrapers since September 11, 2001, in «Castles in the Air,» Mark Lamster notes three threats: aircraft impact, earthquakes and wind.

In April, Michael Ramage, an architect and structural engineer at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, unveiled a plan for a needle - thin, 80 - story skyscraper in London, one of four designs he's creating with architects in three different cities.

Because it is 500 times more flexible, Li believes his concrete could influence design choices in skyscrapers.

He has even designed a contour crafter that climbs, allowing the construction of skyscrapers.

This «Living Skyscraper» was designed with residential apartments at its core and a fringe of edible plant life spiraling across its outer surface.

For those of you who don't know, Art Deco was a type of design style popular around the 20's and 30's, and can been seen in elements of many buildings and skyscrapers constructed around that time (The Chrysler Building, Empire State Building, and Radio City Music Hall).

The production design, too, is glorious: Tomorrowland itself, with its Buck Rogers fashion and skyscraper - high swimming pools, is a triumph of digital world - building.

If it doesn't fit the character as Fitzgerald plainly intends, the characterization is at least in line with the movie's simpler pleasures, which amount to taking in the polish of well - designed sets (Daisy's introduction in a room drenched in flowing white curtains is particularly memorable) and the sheen of the computer - generated ones (The sight of the city's skyscrapers being constructed in a sweeping pullback shot is a doozy, while Gatsby's race through city streets in his custom roadster shows the movie's occasional technological limits).

Nearly two decades later, I'm still chastened by the book's central lesson: A government policy developed by mostly benevolent leaders hoping to improve the lives of the disadvantaged — in this case, by razing old, low - income, ostensibly decaying neighborhoods in favor of gigantic public - housing skyscrapers — did incalculable harm to those it was designed to help.

From creating a huge origami boat, constructing a new skyscraper, or designing an aeroplane, so many things we travel on, live in or use in our everyday lives involve engineering.»

These are designed to stop the big SQ7 swaying around in the bends like a skyscraper in an earthquake.

Amazon has an arcane way of reporting book sales designed by some green - shaded computer whiz in the basement of a New York skyscraper.

When it opened in 1960, Copenhagen's Radisson Blu Royal Hotel, as it is now called, was the talk of town as much for being the city's first skyscraper, as for its top - to - toe design — which included everything from the exterior of the façade to the furnishings and cutlery — by Danish architect Arne Jacobsen.

The new building will be designed by Italian architect Renzo Piano, who was behind London's iconic skyscraper The Shard, and is expected to be finished in three years.

Designed by Paul Philippe Cret in 1929, the historic Art Deco skyscraper was once the home of the American Institute of Architects» Philadelphia chapter and is now a Kimpton hotel, the Palomar.

George Bigelow Rogers (1870 — 1945) was an American architect, best known for the wide variety of buildings that he designed in Mobile, Alabama, including mansions in historic European styles and other private residences, churches and public buildings, and the first 11 - story skyscraper in Mobile and the Southeast United States.

Guests enter W Panama on the 15th floor of the striking new skyscraper and are immediately greeted by playfully modern design.

Surrounded by the gleaming skyscrapers of Lujiazui and just minutes away from Shanghai IFC and the Shanghai World Financial Centre, the Mandarin Oriental Pudong, Shanghai offers a unique blend of style and comfort with a stunning design, world - class restaurants, serene spa and Mandarin Oriental's legendary service.

As you can see from the video, EA had designed a fairly ok open - world Metropolis, which in turn has created more issues, like crashing into buildings, I remember playing this game and it was quite fun, but the number of times I was trying to navigate the streets to the waypoint but just kept crashing into the tall skyscrapers.

Environment design is not as varied or as inspired as the character design as the surrounding environments look too similar as they mostly include city streets with a variety of buildings such as skyscrapers in ruins and overturned cars in streets amongst the rubble.

SimTower (1994) let players design their own skyscraper.

The design, titled New York Horizon, recently won first place in the eVolo Skyscraper Competition, which has been inviting architects and designers to envision futuristic buildings since 2006.

Class # 2 (10 a.m. — 12 noon): The Skyscraper: The Sky's the Limit With a focus on the great architectural skyline of Chicago, campers will learn about the history and design of modern high rise buildings.

Her projects include the 82 - story Aqua Tower, the 2009 Emporis Skyscraper of the Year; the SOS Lavezzorio Community Center, an award - winning building designed using donated materials; and the Nature Boardwalk at Lincoln Park Zoo, an educational pavilion and landscape that also function as stormwater infrastructure.

Lesser - known designs are also featured, including a never - realized, coal - shaped skyscraper for a 2007 national design competition held by the nation of Andorra — a contest that was eventually (and perhaps wisely) abandoned.

The notable exception stands alone at one end of the «Vertical City» chamber: called Heliomorphic Chicago, the dozen - plus maquettes of stretched Chicago skyscrapers, designed by Charles Waldheim, the Harvard Graduate School of Design's Office for Urbanization and Siena Scarff Design, modify the city's preexisting towers to maximize their annual exposure to the sun — and thus the amount of solar energy they might capture.

The tallest building in New York City in 1859, this first «skyscraper» was also the first building to be designed with a rolled iron I - beam infrastructure and the first to house an elevator shaft top to bottom, although the passenger car and conveyance system for such a shaft had not yet been developed.

Built in 1902 and designed by Daniel H. Burnham, the Flatiron Building is considered the oldest and possibly, one of the most famous skyscrapers in New York City.

The 1930s: Modern American Art & Design, a recreation of a 1930s living room complete with a Paul Frankl «skyscraper» occasional table, a Frederick Kiesler chrome floor lamp, and an original 1935 Monopoly set, captures the period's bold experimentation and innovation.

A showcase of over 100 international innovators in spatial design, in the extraordinary city which forged the world's first skyscraper.

Genoa began to live exciting years of art that featured the tenure of Eugenio Battisti at the University and his Museum of Experimental Art, the years of the Il Deposito and La Polena galleries, the years in which Germano Celant prepared the debut of Arte Povera at the La Bertesca gallery and the years in which Konrad Wachsmann was designing the skyscraper within the Italsider area.

Stone Walls and Copper Veils: Architect Wendy Joseph likes to temper weighty materials with ephemeral, dynamic ones in her designs, which include a Holocaust memorial, a women's museum, and a hotel within a Frank Lloyd Wright skyscraper Valerie Gladstone

He is now working on the Mori Arts Center, a museum at the top of a Tokyo skyscraper that has a partnership with MoMA, and is designing his first museum building from the ground up for the Austin Museum of Art in Texas.

Norman Bel Geddes, «Skyscraper» cocktail shaker, eight glasses, and serving tray, designed 1934, manufactured 1935.