THE DOWNSIDE SUPERTALL TOWER CREAKS FULL

The 53-story building was designed by Foster+Partners to accommodate premium office accommodation connected by an underground link to the adjacent Warsaw Central Station. The 310-metre Varso Tower in Warsaw will become the tallest tower in the European Union upon its completion, narrowly surpassing The Shard in London. The tower appears to comprise two separate parts that intertwine as they reach upwards, reflecting the close relationship between China and nearby Hong Kong. The 330-metre building designed by global architecture firm Gensler features a subtly twisting design that gives it a unique appearance and helps to disperse powerful gusts of wind. In the booming Chinese city of Shenzhen, this mixed-use high rise occupies a prominent position in the new Qianhai financial district. The upper floors will accommodate the Waldorf Astoria Hotel alongside public observation decks looking out across the city to the mountains and ocean beyond. The design by American firm Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates comprises a layered composition of glazed boxes intend to form a vertical city containing a range of public and private functions. At a height of 335 metres, it will become the Indonesian capital’s first supertall skyscraper. Tower 1 is the main landmark of the Thamrin Nine Development in downtown Jakarta. The 375-metre-tall tower will contain a mixture of offices and residential units, with a retail podium at the base bordering a new public plaza. The layered form was inspired by the overlapping petals of the bougainvillea flower. The tower designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates features four overlapping facade screens that taper slightly towards the top. The 382-metre tower designed by as part of the masterplan by HKR Architects will become the central beacon for the new urban district.īack to China, where the Shenzhen Center is rising high above the city’s Great China International Exchange Square. The project comprises five towers and a retail podium, with one of the towers set to become the tallest building in the Commonwealth of Independent States formed by the former Soviet Republics.

THE DOWNSIDE SUPERTALL TOWER CREAKS FULL

The design credited to Buruoj Engineering Consultancy is notable for its twisting form and it is claimed that, once completed, it will be the only building in the world to twist a full 360 degrees along its height.Ību Dhabi Plaza is a mixed-use development taking shape in the Kazakh capital, Nur-Sultan. If it does, the 93-story tower will become the second tallest building in Saudi Arabia and one of the tallest residential buildings in the world. Its bevelled silhouette references the bud of the Yulan magnolia and it is topped with a symbolic lantern.ĭetails are sparse about the projects currently under construction in Saudi Arabia, but while we await updates on the progress of Jeddah Tower, it appears this 432-metre residential supertall is likely to top out in 2020. The design by global architecture firm 5+design is inspired by Dongguan’s natural surroundings in the Pearl River Delta, and the building is situated to provide a direct line of sight to the nearby Huanggi Mountain.

Part of a complex of five separate buildings in downtown Dongguan, this 432-metre tower will rise above a six-story retail podium containing stores and restaurants.

As with Jeddah Tower, the project has been beset by a raft of problems, including the need to scale down its proposed height to 475 metres due to airspace regulations. It might seem naive to keep including this tower in Shanghai in our list, but following a recent suspension of construction work, progress is set to resume and the tower may yet reach its full height in 2020. However, recent noises hint that construction may be stepped up in the coming months so there remains a possibility that the building designed by Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture might reach its final height of around 1,000 metres by the end of the year. Could this be the year that the tallest manmade structure of all time finally tops out? Construction of the Jeddah Tower in Saudi Arabia has been plagued by political, economic and labour issues, with the proposed completion date of 2020 deemed unrealistic for many years now.

The downside supertall tower creaks