This week on Dezeen, design studio Oxman revealed designs for a conceptual skyscraper formed of a stack of planted platforms.
Named Eden Tower, the structure was designed using a system devised by the studio called “ecological programming”, which aims to optimise green architecture.
The project was unveiled at the opening of Neri Oxman’s Foster + Partners-designed studio in Midtown Manhattan, which houses a production workshop and wet lab.
In architecture news, the Pan Pacific Orchard skyscraper in Singapore by architecture studio WOHA was named the world’s best new tall building by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat.
Located in the city’s Orchard Road district, the 23-storey hotel features four planted terraces that punctuate the building’s form.
The building was described by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat as “a hotel in nature” and was chosen for its demonstration of Singapore’s sustainable vision.
This week also saw a series of structures unveiled by leading architects including Álvaro Siza, Fosters + Partners and Sou Fujimoto.
In Spain, Siza completed the three-storey Colien House, which is defined by its orange-tinted concrete structure embedded into a hill in Barcelona, while Fosters + Partners completed a vaulted timber addition to Bodegas Faustino winery in Oyón.
Meanwhile, in Reims, France, Fujimoto added a stone pavilion fronted by a curved glass facade to champagne house Maison Ruinart’s historic site.
Ahead of the Stirling Prize being unveiled later this month, we published a series of videos produced by the RIBA that showcased each of the six shortlisted projects.
Among the shortlisted projects were the Chowdry Walk social-housing scheme by Al-Jawad Pike, Phase 2 of the Park Hill estate regeneration by Mikhail Riches and Wraxall Yard holiday accommodation by Clementine Blakemore Architects.
Also in the running for the prestigious award is the Elizabeth Line infrastructure by studios Grimshaw, Maynard, Equation and Atkins and the overhaul of the National Portrait Gallery by Jamie Fobert Architects and Purcell.
Popular projects featured on Dezeen this week included a holiday home built from natural materials on an island in Sweden, a circular house featuring large parabolic arches in California and an apartment that merges “minimalism with the grandeur of Napoleon-era architecture”.
This week’s lookbooks featured bathrooms elevated by stylish shower curtains and interiors that show the versatility of futons and daybeds.
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