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Dezeen readers name Brooklyn Tower world's best skyscraper

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To mark World Skyscraper Day today, Dezeen readers have voted the Brooklyn Tower by SHoP Architects as the best skyscraper from the past year. Designed by SHoP Architects , the 325-metre-high supertall skyscraper is now the tallest building in Brooklyn. Photo by Max Touhey. Above: DJI Sky City came in second place.

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Zaha Hadid Architects skyscraper nears completion on world's most expensive site

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The 36-storey skyscraper is nearing completion and is already being hailed as a new landmark for the city, occupying a prime spot next to Chater Garden alongside IM Pei's Bank of China Tower and the HSBC building by Foster + Partners. The photography is by Jennifer Hahn.

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World's tallest skyscraper restarts construction in Saudi Arabia

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Construction work has resumed on Jeddah Tower in Saudi Arabia , a skyscraper designed by Chicago-based studio Adrian Smith + Gill Gordon Architecture , which is expected to become the world's tallest building. Designed by Adrian Smith + Gill Gordon Architecture ( AS+GG ), the skyscraper is planned to reach a height of 1,000 metres.

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Nikken Sekkei Completes World's Longest Cantilever Skyscraper in Dubai

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Courtesy of Hufton + Crow Japanese design firm Nikken Sekkei has just completed a new building in Dubai’s central financial district, encompassing the “World’s Longest Cantilever ,” which floats 100m above ground. Compromising two towers connected by an enclosed horizontal bridge, “One Za’abeel” acts as a new point of entry into the city.

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a sombre skyscraper memorializes deceased laborers who built qatar’s world cup stadiums

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today, a few days before the world cup kicks off, the qatar world cup memorial stands at 4.4 The post a sombre skyscraper memorializes deceased laborers who built qatar’s world cup stadiums appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine. km, commemorating 6,751 fallen laborers.

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World's skinniest skyscraper by SHoP Architects completes in Manhattan

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The final exterior cladding elements have been added to SHoP Architects' 111 West 57th Street in New York City, a supertall skyscraper that is both the world's skinniest and the second tallest in the Western Hemisphere. According to SHoP, the tower was built with the highest strength concrete in the world. Photo by Evan Joseph.

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Ascent skyscraper in Milwaukee becomes world's tallest timber building

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metre-tall mass-timber tower in Wisconsin designed by Korb + Associates Architects, has been certified as the world's tallest timber building. The Ascent tower has been named the world's tallest timber building. The post Ascent skyscraper in Milwaukee becomes world's tallest timber building appeared first on Dezeen.

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