Research
17 October 2016
The Haikou Tower - Signifier and Signified
Martin Henn, HENN
When designing the “Haikou Towers,” our aim was to go beyond an architecture of mere function or form, but to construct an architecture of meaning....
26 October 2015
Novel High-rise Typologies – Towards Vertical Urbanism
Martin Henn & Moritz Fleischmann, HENN Architekten
How can we translate the urban qualities of the horizontal city into the vertical tower? Here, we present four projects that embody design strategies to...
31 December 2014
Year in Review: Tall Trends of 2014
Daniel Safarik, Antony Wood, Marty Carver & Marshall Gerometta, CTBUH
An All-Time Record 97 Buildings of 200 Meters or Higher Completed in 2014 and 2014 showed further shifts towards Asia, and also surprising developments in...
19 September 2012
Haihang International Plaza, Tower A, Main Building’s Supertall Structural Design
Fujiang Xu & Ping Sheng, Beijing Institute of Architectural Design
The Main Building of Tower A of the Haihang International Plaza is a 54-story out-of-code supertall structure which uses a CFST (Concrete-Filled Steel Tube) structure...
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