This week on Dezeen, we revealed images displaying a skyscraper by Zaha Hadid Architects that’s near being accomplished on the world’s costliest website in Hong Kong.
Positioned in Hong Kong’s Central Enterprise District, The Henderson workplace constructing occupies what was reportedly the world’s costliest plot when it was bought in 2017.
Images taken by Dezeen’s design editor Jennifer Hahn present most of its curved glass facade panels are actually in place.
We additionally took a have a look at 10 different skyscrapers by Zaha Hadid Architects which are presently within the works, together with a twisted skyscraper in Malta and a shard-shaped crystalline skyscraper in Saudi Arabia.
In different skyscraper information, California structure studio AO has put ahead plans for a skyscraper in Oklahoma Metropolis that might be 533-metres excessive, making it the second-tallest within the US. The skyscraper, which has not but been authorised, can be a part of a growth referred to as the Boardwalk at Bricktown.
A 43-storey skyscraper in Chicago was additionally unveiled this week. Designed by US agency Morris Adjmi Architects, The Row skyscraper has a “deeply expressive” facade that takes cues from the town’s industrial previous and the work of architect Mies van der Rohe.
Saudi Arabian mega-project Neom unveiled its newest design, Aquellum, an “upside-down skyscraper” that will likely be situated inside a mountain vary by the Gulf of Aquaba.
The constructing will likely be centred round a 100-metre-tall void above an “underwater open sq.” and will likely be designed by structure studios LAVA and Identify Structure. It is going to include resort and retail areas, in addition to residential flats and “revolutionary hubs”.
In design information this week, electronics model LG unveiled what it says is “the world’s first wi-fi clear OLED TV”. Showcased at this 12 months’s Client Electronics Present (CES), the TV may very well be used as a delicate room divider whereas switched off.
Additionally on present at CES had been industrial designer Marc Newson’s good synthetic intelligence (AI) binoculars, designed for Swarovski Optik. The binoculars use AI to determine chook and animal species, overlaying species info on the picture in entrance of them.
Eco-friendly design had a second, with shoe model Vivobarefoot and materials science firm Balena unveiling a prototype coach that’s 3D-printed from compostable supplies. The “scan-to-print-to-soil” coach was designed to be composted in an industrial facility.
Supplies firms Round Issues and StoneCycling additionally labored with biomaterials, utilizing corn cobs to make a biodegradable inside cladding. CornWall was designed as a extra sustainable different to plastic laminate or ceramic inside wall tiles.
Automotive Design Information editor James McLachlan explored who entrepreneur Elon Musk’s bulletproof Cybertruck is supposed to attraction to in an opinion piece this week.
The Cybertruck encapsulates “a dystopian future imaginative and prescient the place america is sliding into lawlessness,” McLachlan says, although he additionally argues that an “understanding of the significance of design and manufacturing working collectively is Musk’s genius.”
Common initiatives this week included a Menorcan vacation residence encased in fluted concrete, a Washington DC residence with a gabled annexe and a Chilean vacation residence with a rotated terrace.
Our newest lookbooks featured ten properties with internet flooring and ten interiors with mid-century trendy furnishings.
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