Tag: Tower
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PLTD Apung 1
stranded power generating ship, Banda Aceh This is the second most important tsunami-related sight in Banda Aceh (after the Tsunami Museum ).
Nurabad Tower
Tower in Mamasani County, Iranian national heritage site.
Six Flags Atlantis
(later operated as Atlantis the Water Kingdom) was a water park in Hollywood, Florida, that occupied 65 acres on the southeastern intersection of Stirling...
Schaltwerk Hochhaus
The Schaltwerk Hochhaus building within the Siemens Factory was the first high-rise factory in Europa and it complemented it the horizontal complex of the...
New Haven Veterans Memorial Coliseum
The New Haven Veterans Memorial Coliseum of Columbus Headquarters was a large building designed by Kevin Roche and built-in between 1965 and 1972 in New...
Marriot Marquis Hotel Times Square
There is always some confusion in defining what Manhattanism is and, mainly, how it is shown in a single building that represents the congestion of the...
Palau Finestres
This is the reconversion of the Finestres palace as the working headquarters of the Barcelona Merchants' Association.
La Pyramide
is a high-rise building located in the Plateau area of Abidjan, the largest city in Ivory Coast.
Mulder House
Conceptually this residence, sited in the Andes foothills with a view over the city and the Pacific beyond, is a collection of forms assembled on a...
Haus zur Bastei
Completed in 1955 as a nine-storey offices tower, the new building was the first skyscraper in downtown Zurich.
Weyerhaeuser Corporate Headquarters
The five-story Weyerhaeuser Corporate Headquarters building — often called a “skyscraper on its side” — is composed of gently sloping landscaped terraces...
Housing & City
A not well-known proposal but very attractive from the former firm Abalos&Herreros is the housing project developed for the Housing & City competition...
Manhattan Commercial and Residential Building
The design of the tower at 131 West 52nd Street takes maximum advantage of a change in New York City's zoning laws that allows for height and setback...
Ho Chi Minh Museum, Hanoi
Ho Chi Minh Museum (but weirdness factor 10!) A museum in Hanoi , Vietnam , about the country's deceased great communist leader.
Burg Losenstein
Losenstein Castle or Burg Losenstein is a castle ruin in Upper Austria.
Dom Project: on how to Domesticate the Urban (II)
This article is part of the Hidden Architecture Series “Attitude”, where we explore current works by contemporain architectes which, despite its...
Glenkerry House
is a Grade II listed housing block on the Brownfield Estate in Poplar, London, England, designed by the studio of the controversial Brutalist architect...
Lincoln House
This article is part of the [Sí] , a personal project curated by Marta López García where she wills to shed light on a twice silenced reality.
Uluru
Project in collaboration with Guillermo Fernández Pardo, Esperanza Romeu Pardo, Luis Márquez Barrero.
military shrine of Pocol
Sacrario militare di Pocol (also known as Ossario di Pocol) is a cemetery and shrine near the Falzarego Pass, in the locality of Pocol in the comune of...
Willis Tower (formerly Sears Tower)
consists of a structural steel frame that was pre-assembled in sections and then bolted in place on the site.
Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church ruins & memorial hall
Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church ruins The landmark WWII church ruin in West Berlin , the main tower left in its semi-collapsed state to serve as a...
Australia Square
Replacing a city block of 30 different amalgamated old properties, this is Sydney’s first tall office tower built due to the foresight and energetic...
1000 Sherbrooke West
(formerly known as Centre Mont-Royal and Place Internationale de l'Aviation) is a 28-storey, 128 m (420 ft) skyscraper at 1000 rue Sherbrooke Ouest...
A-Bomb Dome
The ruins of the former "Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall", gutted by the atomic bomb – ever since it has been THE landmark of Hiroshima ,...
Sport Athletic Stadium
Our proposal for the Chemnitz Stadium demonstrates a vision of a light, transparent roof structure over a contoured hill-marked landscape.
Parish Centre at Tres Cantos
The cultural, economic and social conditions that established the relationship between the church and the community have changed with the transformation...
The Municipal Building
This article is part of the Hidden Architecture Series “Tentative d’Épuisement” , where we explore the practice of an architectural criticism without...
Plaza Castilla
“Through its development, this avenua has been createing different squares to its highest point where Plaza de Castilla islocated, formed by two blocks on...
Mcmath-Pierce Solar Telescope
Glowing like an American Stonehenge, this giant, upside-down concrete “V” looks like a tribute to the Sun God, which in a sense it is.
Singer Building
‘Don’t Amputate-Renovate' is a series curated by Hidden Architecture where we conduct a work of recovering and archiving of buildings demolished in New...
Notre-Dame à Royan
The architectural program of the church of Notre Dame, in Royan, responds to a classical concept.
Centro Profesional del Este
In Caracas, one of the many up-and-coming capitals of the large South American continent, where today, next to tin shanty towns, new huge residential...
Civic Center of Lima
The Lima Civic Center (Spanish: Centro Cívico de Lima) is an architectural complex located next to the Paseo de los Héroes Navales in the district of...
Galaxy Towers
also known as the Galaxy Towers Condominium Association or GTCA, are a trio of 415 feet (126 m) octagonal towers located at 7000 Kennedy Boulevard East in...
Bradfield Hall
is an academic structure situated on central campus of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
Mother of All Asia–Tower of Peace
The Mother of All Asia–Tower of Peace is a monument shrine dedicated to the Virgin Mary as a symbol of unity and peace in Asia and the whole world.
OCBC Centre
is a 197.7 m (649 ft), 52-storey skyscraper in Singapore currently serving as the headquarters of OCBC Bank.
Jurys Inn Birmingham
The Leonardo Royal Hotel Birmingham is a hotel on Broad Street, Birmingham, England.
Augarten Flaktowers
Huge tower-like bunkers, originally built for anti-aircraft gun batteries and as public air-raid shelters.
Babi Yar
UPDATE 2 March 2022: like the rest of Kyiv , this site is now out of reach for tourism due to Putin’s ongoing war against Ukraine .
Kirchliches Zentrum Zollikerberg
The church, the parish hall and the Sigristenhaus were to be built for the rapidly growing district of the lake district of Zollikon on the Zollikerwald.
Hotel Les Gorges du Dadès
**Article written by ZorA Lahlou ** The work of Patrice de Mazieres and Abdeslem Faraoui can be seen as a synthesis of combined values of tradition as...
Malcom Moos Health Sciences Tower
Malcolm Moos Health Sciences Tower, informally known as Moos Tower, is a building on the East Bank of the University of Minnesota campus in Minneapolis,...
Eastgate Centre
Sustainable architecture must satisfy the needs of present users without diminishing the prospects of future generations.
Centre Point
is a building in Central London, comprising a 34-storey tower; a 9-storey block to the east including shops, offices, retail units and maisonettes; and a...
Hôtel Loews Le Concorde
Hôtel Le Concorde Québec is a skyscraper hotel in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. It contains 405 rooms over 26 floors.
Tower House
The Tower House by Japanese architect Takamitsu Azuma was built in 1966 in a very small plot of land.
Guy's Tower
Skyscraper located as part of the Guy's Hospital complex in the London Borough of Southwark.
Knights of Columbus Building
The Knights of Columbus Building, in Downtown New Haven, Connecticut, is the headquarters of the Roman Catholic fraternal service organization, the...
Tallinn
The capital and largest city of Estonia is the smallest but most touristy of the three Baltic capitals (the others being Riga in Latvia and Vilnius in...
Dukla Pass
The site (or set of sites), on the border of Slovakia and Poland , of one of the bloodiest battles of WWII , namely between the advancing Soviet Red Army...
Electa Pavilion
To speak of the book pavilion is first to evoke things past, namely the two rows of trees between which the architectural office of Stirling Wilford &...
Lippo Centre
(Chinese: 力寶中心; Jyutping: lik6 bou2 zung1 sam1), previously known as the Bond Centre (奔達中心; ban1 daat6 zung1 sam1), is a twin tower skyscraper complex...
Gueorguiadi House
*** Article written by Alexandrina Marinova *** Plovdiv. The second largest city in Bulgaria and one of the oldest in Europe.
33 Thomas Street
(also known as the AT&T Long Lines Building) is a 550-foot-tall (170 m) windowless skyscraper in the Tribeca neighborhood of Lower Manhattan in New York...
Tracey Towers
utilizes the air rights over a storage yard for subway trains, simultaneously eliminating a Twentieth Century eyesore and creating a man-made plateau...
Mathildenhöhe
Joseph Maria Olbrich was chosen by the duke Erns Ludwig Von Essen to design an artist colony after the success of the Secession Exhibition Hall in 1897.
Anniesland Court
is a 22-storey residential tower block in the Anniesland area of Glasgow, Scotland, designed by J Holmes & Partners and completed in 1968.
Hindenburg crash site
"Hindenburg" crash site The place where one of the most iconic disasters in aviation history happened when the German zeppelin Hindenburg burst into...
Església de Vistabella
“When Mr. Mallafré, donor of the land, told him about the church they wanted to build, almost immediately – the next morning – Jujol presented him a...
Allt-Erlaa
Perhaps the best-known example of a well-functioning public housing complex in Vienna, the Wohnpark Alt-Erlaa includes 3180 apartments, each with a...
Andreaskirche
The positioning of the buildings and their mutual cubic proportion is chosen in such a way that the new buildings, despite their independent architectural...
Spiral Apartment House
“It is a work of incomplete precision. Because it is so precise it can't be really finished. No limit to the precision one can achieve.
Gallowgate Twins
The Bluevale and Whitevale Towers were twin 31–storey brutalist tower block flats situated in the Camlachie district within the East End of Glasgow,...
War Museum, Riga
A well-established museum in the Old Town of Riga that presents the war history of Latvia (and the country has seen more than its fair share of wars over...
Neguri Gane
is a 148 meter-skyscraper located in Benidorm, Spain. The 43 story building began construction in 1998, and was completed in 2002.
Project for an Agip Motel
The Ridolfian cultural syncretism includes features such as the definition of a centrifugal space, naturally lighted up and covered by a roof that...
Terrassenhaus Eierbrechstrasse
The location of the site prompted the implementation of an unusual solution.
Residence for the Irish Prime Minister
Between 1979 and 1980, Zaha Hadid participated in the competition for a new residence for the Prime Minister of Ireland, together with a State Guest...
CPF Building
The former CPF Building was a high-rise skyscraper located in the central business district of Singapore.
Espiritu Santo do Cerrado Church
This article is part of the series [Sí] , a personal project curated by Marta López García where she wills to shed light on a twice silenced reality.
Severnoye Chertanovo
High-rise housing project in Moscow, Russia.
Villa Girasole
(in italian sunflower) is a rotational house which progressively rotates following the sun's movement during the day.
Vantage Point
(formerly Archway Tower designed by Oscar Garry & Partners Architects) is a 195-foot (59m) 17-storey residential apartment building above Archway...
Elmbank Gardens
is a multi-use commercial complex (and the name given to a former street) in the Charing Cross area of Glasgow, Scotland.
European Southern Observatory
The entrance situation is similar to that of the neighbouring Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics: a ramp-bridge leads through a front courtyard to the...
Place Hauteville
Mixed-use skyscraper in Quebec City, Canada.
Tour Totem
Skyscraper in the 15th arrondissement of Paris.
Nules Lighthouse
Every Image and Text by Blanca Lleó This project won the first prize of the national contest for ideas of Lighthouses and Maritime Signals.
Can Negre
While Torre de la Creu was being built, Jujol met the lawyer Don Pere Negre.The encounter grew into a close friendship, and Negre proved to be one of the...
OBSCURED BY CLOUDS: Genex Tower
This article is part of Obscured by Clouds, a personal project curated by Biljana Janjušević about architectural heritage of Balkans region, with emphasis...
Funerary Chapel
Between the stone chunks lying on its face to dry like a cross with broken knees. Half stuck in the ground and raising the neck to the air of the skies.
Viru KGB Museum, Tallinn
Not so much a museum as such but a guided tour through the somewhat "museum-ized" parts of the Viru Hotel in Tallinn where the KGB used to operate its...
Bogatyr opencast coal mining pit, Ekibastuz
Bogatyr opencast coal mining pit A gigantic black opencast coal pit near Ekibaztuz in Kazakhstan that is being mined on various levels simultaneously and...
Gaustabanen
An incredible underground tunnel system inside which funicular trains go all the way to the top of Mt Gausta, the "jewel of the Telemark", in southern...
Hochhaus Union Investment
Tower block in Frankfurt/Main, Germany. Hochhaus Union Investment is a notable architecture site in Frankfurt-Innenstadt I, Germany, known for its unusual...
Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche
In 1956, a limited competition was announced for the new construction of the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, which had been severely damaged during the...
Santuario della Consolata
The Sanctuary of the Consolata, strongly linked to the cult of the Virgin Mary invoked with the title of Consolatrice, has very ancient origins.
Parish Church
(…) El Santuario del Centro de Peregrinos de Mityana, en Uganda, fue construido por el arquitecto suizo Justus Dahinden en 1988, dos décadas después de...
Archaeology of Superpositions, as seen in Sidon’s Sea Castle
Located at about 48 km from Beirut, Sidon (also known as Saida) is the third largest city in Lebanon.
Keeling House
is a 16-storey block of flats located on Claredale Street in Bethnal Green, London, England.
Wisma Dharmala Sakti Office Headquarters
A final building in Southeast Asia, the Dharmala Headquarters, in Jakarta, in many ways brings into sharp focus a number of longstanding issues in the...
103 Colmore Row
is a 108-metre tall, 26-storey commercial office building located on Colmore Row, Birmingham, England.
Palazzo Doria-Tursi
The palace, the largest by extension in Strada Nuova, as it was called at the time Via Giuseppe Garibaldi, was erected starting from 1565 by the brothers...
Hötensleben border memorial
The largest preserved stretch of the former border between East Germany ( GDR ) and West Germany ( FRG ); here it even has a form very much reminiscent of...
Santa María de los Ángeles
“It is a parish centre in which the church, with its triangular plan – like an arrow – has become this shape not only because of the geometry of the site,...
Marx & Engels in Berlin
Marx & Engels, Berlin In socialist countries, statues of the fathers of the communist idea, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, were commonplace in all...
Austrian Cultural Forum
“The Austrian Cultural Center is a twenty-five-feet-wide pencil point tour de force, which makes it a kind of compressed microcosm, or even, at a stretch,...
Urban Voids
The winning entry of the 1991 Europan Competition, Berlin Voids is a giant puzzle of different apartment types.