Sentences with word «supertall»

The de Blasio administration expressed its support for the slew of supertall skyscrapers rising in Midtown Manhattan, responding to elected officials who have criticized...

The complex, at 9 DeKalb Ave., would also bring the current surge in supertall towers across the East River from Manhattan.

For the effect of minimalism on supertall buildings, the dominant form of urban art in America, see: Skyscraper Architecture (1850 - present).

UN Studio, working with engineer and architect Werner Sobek, has begun construction on an interesting new supertall skyscraper in Dubai.

Additional CTBUH 2020 predictions include: · Though several of the towers on the current 2020 list may not advance to construction on site, and thus eventual completion, additional supertall buildings — ones eligible for inclusion on the Tallest 20 in 2020 list — will be proposed as the world comes out of recession.

In its list predicting the Tallest 20 Buildings in 2020, CTBUH says today's iconic supertall buildings such as the Petronas, Sears and Empire State Towers (the last of which has been in the World's Tallest 10 Buildings for more than 70 years) will not even make the list a decade or two from now.

They planned to end the march in front of One57, the superluxury, supertall tower that symbolizes the high - end condo boom along this strip of Midtown once famous more for its shopping than as a glamorous home address.

Bauhouse Group had planned a 950 - foot (290 - meter), Norman Foster - designed condo tower at the site, bringing a bit of Midtown's supertall building frenzy to the quieter fringes of the East Side.

Construction has begun on the supertall skyscraper at 9 DeKalb Ave. (Rendering courtesy of SHoP Architects)

But as the so - called MoMA Tower, designed by starchitect Jean Nouvel, rises toward a supertall height of 1,050 feet, Hines» lofty expectations for the project's prices are coming back down to Earth.

For all of that visibility, no academic studies have ever taken a magnifying glass to the supertall.

A construction company working on a supertall condo tower and other New York City buildings has been indicted on charges it stole $ 1.7 million in workers» wages and cheated the state out of $ 7.8 million by...

But Ramage predicts that wooden towers this tall could go up within a decade, and he and his colleagues are now testing the kinds of beams and steel connectors that could support a supertall wooden structure.

Thirty years ago, perceived wisdom was that redwood canopies were virtual deserts devoid of life but, thanks to the life's work of a handful of souls, we now know that there is an abundance of life at the top of these ancient «supertall» trees, some in excess of 350 feet and 3000 years old.

(Note: This does not mean I support the supertall towers sprouting all over New York City; I don't.)

Nader Tehrani, the new dean of Cooper Union's architecture school, admits to a fetish for the «supertall» buildings dominating the architectural conversation in New York City today, but he also admits it's complicated.