This week on Dezeen, Japanese studio Nikken Sekkei unveiled a skyscraper in Dubai that features the world’s longest cantilever.
Measuring 67.5 metres, the cantilever tasks out from a hyperlink connecting two skyscrapers on the One Za’abeel growth in Dubai.
The cantilever is one metre longer than the 66.5-metre-long commentary deck at Marina Bay Sands in Singapore, making it the longest on the planet.
In New York, two skyscrapers have been within the information with Skidmore, Owings & Merrill’s 285-metre-high Two Manhattan West skyscraper finishing in Midtown Manhattan.
KPF, in the meantime, launched pictures of the 520 Fifth Avenue supertall skyscraper (above), which is underneath building close by and will likely be wrapped in arched home windows.
In design information, NASA and Lockheed Martin introduced its “quiet supersonic” jet for the primary time.
Designed to have a cruising pace of 925 miles per hour, the distinctive type of the X-59 supersonic jet was created to scale back the noise created by sonic booms.
Additionally this week, the primary full-height timber wind turbine, which has a tower constructed by wooden know-how firm Modvion, began delivering Sweden.
At 105 metres tall, the tower was comprised of a sort of mass-timber known as laminated veneer lumber (LVL), whereas its rotor blades and generator hub have been made from typical supplies.
In China, architect Junya Ishigami revealed a one-kilometre-long museum that extends throughout a lake in Rizhao, Shandong Province.
Following the opening we rounded up 10 buildings in China that work together with dramatic landscapes.
Common tasks this week included an infinity pool designed by Herzog & de Meuron in Lake Como, a bamboo pavilion within the northeast of India and a green-terrazzo flat extension.
Our newest lookbooks featured New York Metropolis loft interiors and residing rooms the place classic furnishings provides an “unknown historical past”.
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