Kingdom Tower

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Kingdom Tower was Designed by Chicago Firm Adrian Smith and Gordon Gill Architecture. It is the world's tallest building, which

British construction firms ED Harris and Mace were selected by the Jeddah Economic Company (JEC) to provide project.

The building will consist of a five star Four Seasons Hotel offering luxury suites, serviced apartments and offices encompassing 530,000 square meters of space along with the world's highest observation deck. Visitors and residents will be able to enjoy spectacular views of the Red Sea through outdoor terraces on three sides of the building.

The Kingdom Tower features a streamlined and aerodynamic design set to represent a bundle of leaves shooting up from the ground, reinforcing Saudi Arabia's desire for evolution and urban development for Jeddah. It will also feature a high performance exterior designed to minimize energy consumption and reduce thermal loads.

The tower is also being celebrated for incorporating the "world's most sophisticated elevator system," with 59 elevators and 12 escalators moving people throughout the building floors. Elevators to the observation deck will travel at an impressive rate of 10 meters per second in both directions.

Kingdom Tower is due to be completed in winter 2018.

Tall Buildings Completions in 2012 Decreased

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat reported that tall buildings completions in 2012 decreased. Only 66 buildings were completed in 2012 compared to 82 in 2011.

The Middle East and China dominated the 2012 tall buildings list with the Middle East completing 16 buildings and Asia completing 25 buildings, 22 of them in China alone.

Dubai secured the top two spots with the 393-metre 23 Marina building surpassed only by the 413-metre Princess Tower. North America completed six buildings, only two of which were in the United States, a figure that is fairly low for a country with so many cities. Australia completed three tall buildings, marking the country's first additions to its roster of tall buildings since 2007.

Countries such as China and Australia are experiencing a rapid rise in urbanisation from their rural areas with a high demand for livable and sustainable high-rise homes. Along with urbanisation, other factors directing this increase include the limited availability of urban land forcing developers to build vertically.

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Equality

Since the ancient times, men and women are not really equal, even people always say humans are equal and the law prescribes that we are equal.

In a recent survey, Zaha Hadid, an acclaimed female starchitect, has described the attitude she encounterred when working in the UK compared to other European countries as 'misogynist.' The survey reveals that nearly a third of those surveyed were aware that they were being paid less than their male colleagues in the same role. Hadid spoke to the Observer newspaper describing it as 'difficult' to work in the UK compared to European countries, they are very conservative.

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In fact, Zaha Hadid's ability is no worse than men. In 2004, Hadid was the first woman to win the coveted Pritzker Architecture Prize. She is renowned for her poerful architectural structures and she assumed that women were better suited to design and decorating roles, designing residential properties, public buildings or leisure centres rather than large scale commercial projects and there needed to be a culture shift.

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Rostov Stadium

Populous was selected to design Rostov Stadium. Congratulations.

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Populous is internationally recognised for its sustainable approach in designing sports and convention centres,  and that commitment to sustainability will be demonstrated with the Rostov project, which will be part of an ongoing green city project designed to protect the surrounding wetlands from other developments.

Furthermore, Populous is renowned for its ability to design venues in such a way as to effectively showcase a host city throughout a major sporting event and then effortlessly transform the space to leave a lasting legacy for the city.


Rostov Stadium is for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia. Following their work in the Kazan, Saransk and Sochi sports arenas, Rostov Stadium will be their fourth stadium.

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The Stadium will be built near the Sea of Azov. A large shade structure will be designed to encourage natural light as it protects fans from rain or wind. The stadium will initially hold 45,000 soccer fans before reducing the seat capacity to a more practical 25,000 after the games are over. It is expected to be completed in 2016.

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A New Sustainable City in Meixi Lake

"Over the last 10 years, China's cities have grown in two ways: by increasing density within the historical cores, and by adding new cities adjacent to the old," said KPF principal James von Klemperer. "The latter phenomenon has resulted in a twin city paradigm. Thus, we have Shanghai's Puxi and Pudong, Beijing's old center and new CBD. Nanjing, Suzhou, Hangzhou, and many other cities have sprouted new towns."

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Kohn Pederson Fox Associates (KPF) has released a master plan for a new sustainable city in Meixi Lake in Changsha, China. The project from scratch, the urban development is set to cover 120 million square feet and house up to 180,000 residents.

James von Klemperer said that, in a new town such as Meixi, new urban innovations can be integrated into the design.

"We can combine water transport with localised energy production, cluster neighborhood centres, advanced flood prevention and water management, and urban agriculture," he said.

"Meixi is an experiment in future city planning and building. It will serve Changsha as a new CBD, but it will also serve as a paradigm for other Chinese city planners. It's a kind of live test case."

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The Project of Adams Fleming House

The project of Adams Fleming House was designed by Levitt Goodman Architects.
An introverted plan strategically shuts out the auditory and visual noise of the city and gives Peter and Debbie the opportunity to enjoy the quiet fugue of their home and their fine collections of modernist furniture and contemporary art. The private areas of the house are nestled into one corner, with the kitchen, dining and living rooms forming an "L" around them. These are bathed in sunlight and feature panoramic views of the gardens through oversized windows that were once the garage doors. The bedrooms and bathrooms are raised on a platform, creating domestic ceiling heights as well as much-needed storage underneath. A second storey was added with a large open studio space for work and musical jam sessions (the clients play bluegrass strings). The roof is prepped for a future roof garden that will create the impression that the house is floating in a field while also tempering the temperature and air quality of the house.

The garden is a successful mismatch of styles, including an outdoor dining room, a fountain plunge pool, a vegetable garden, a French-style orchard, as well as beds of native plants and grasses. Amid such dense planting, one can barely see the Goodwill donation trailer that sits in the supermarket parking lot just over the garden wall.Much charm comes from the elements that illustrate the house’s rich collaborative spirit.
For example, Levitt Goodman composed a wall around the living room fireplace with panels of steel found on the site; the client then rusted and waxed them to a red, velvety appearance. Levitt Goodman designed an ensuite bathroom in which the client created an unusually shaped concrete tub, custom-fitted to his wife’s proportions.

The project not only cleaned up a brown field site and infused a richly-planted garden, it also incorporated energy-efficient systems that were rare when the project began. These include radiant floor heating, on demand hot water, plenty of large, functional windows, skylights and “Sun Tunnels” that bring natural light into the heart of the house where there are no external windows. Looking forward to creating architectural rendering and architectural visualization for more architects.

Eli and Edythe Broad Museum

As a common staff in a company and a get-common-salary staff, most of the time I can only see the world through the internet.

Zaha Hadid is a famous female architect. I've seen many of her architecture design on the internet. At the same time, our company has a cooperation with her on creating architectural rendering and architectural visualization. Today I saw Robert Landon's article about his experience exploring Zaha Hadid's newly completed Eli and Edythe Broad Museum in Michigan.

The architecture is the complex, light-catching carapace that first reels in the eye — a fine shock after the brick, neo-Gothic buildings that define the rest of the Michigan State University campus. Draw closer and its undulating fins, opening and closing in rhythmic asymmetries, begin to seduce the mind. In some places scrunched up into sharp angles and in others allowed to breathe for longer stretches across the low-slung facade, the fins seem to be the expression of some higher, grid-bending equation.

In a half-conscious attempt to solve the math, you begin to circle the building. At certain points, the fins spread wide enough for generous glimpses inside, but as you move keep moving, the inner secrets vanish again behind the metal lattice. In the same way, the relentlessly kinetic carapace tantalizes with, but ultimately eludes, any logical or definitive summing up. What is certain, though, is that, by the time you’ve come full circle, you’ll have grown quite curious to see what is going on inside.

The footprint of the two-story building is relatively small. In response, Hadid said at the museum’s opening that she deployed trapezoidal shapes to “explode the site and stretch the space in a hidden corner of the campus. Rather than solemnity, silence and reverence, we wanted to create a sense of dynamism.”