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CBS Building. 51 West 52nd Street, in the west side of Avenue of the Americas between 52nd and 53rd Street. Eero Saarinen. Architect. 1962-1965.

View of the new 38-story CBS Building from New York Hilton hotel looking southeast in june 1965. At left is the Tishman Building (Carson & Lundin, 1957). The building at right, foreground, is the J.C. Penney Building (Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, 1965).

Photo: Joseph Molitor.

Source: Architectural Record. July 1965.

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CGR architects unveiled their container built skyscrapers. The architecture firm explains that this could be a temporary housing solution while rebuilding the slums.

Merging 3 containers will provide a 3 bedrooms house for family whereas the subdivision of one container could serve as a studio for one individual. A concrete structure behaves as the spine of the building. Each slab supports 9 stacked units that disclose in a pivoted edge to help create the central hollow space. The colorful containers are placed gradually to obtain a homogeneous color shift, resulting in a beautiful sky-high color explosion.

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Hong Kong - China (by Norman Z)

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CentraPark, the new building on the outskirts of central Sydney. It’s a massive vertical garden with suspended reflectors at the top. An awesome sight to behold.

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This Voluptuous Australian Skyscraper Was Inspired By Beyoncé

Beyoncé will soon reach an unimaginable height in her career—741 feet to be exact. That’s because the Grammy Award-winning singer has inspired the design of a new skyscraper Down Under.

The Premier Tower—a 68-story structure designed by Elenberg Fraser—was modeled on the amorphous figures in the Grammy Award-winning singer’s Ghost music video. Slated to break ground early next year, the “bootylicious bod” will boast just as many curves as Queen B. Read more.

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Rolex Tower /Dubai/ Height: 246.8 m / 810 ft Architect: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP

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Dubai - United Arab Emirates (by Jimmy Baikovicius)

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Zaha Hadid’s One Thousand Museum Starts Going Vertical in Miami. The London-based architect’s first residential skyscraper in the Western Hemisphere is expected to be completed in late 2017.

“On Friday, approximately 1,000 trucks poured 9,500 cubic yards of concrete in the construction of Miami’s One Thousand Museum by London-based Zaha Hadid Architects. The luxury condominium tower is sited on Biscayne Boulevard in Miami, opposite Museum Park. The project broke ground last December and is expected to be completed in late 2017.”

For more information about this project click, here.