Those with a fear of heights might want to give this exclusive eatery a miss, because it juts right out hundreds of feet above a canyon – and there’s a glass floor to make the experience even more stomach churning. Designed by Tall Arquitectos, the Copper Canyon Cocktail Bar will overlook the stunning Basaseachic Falls […]
Office starts in London hit a 20-year high and commercial activity grew by 28 per cent in the six months to March, according to Deloitte’s London Crane Survey for summer 2016 According to AJ sister-title Construction News, the survey shows there have been 51 new schemes start on site in the six months to the […]
(CNN)Wood is being billed as the answer to creating greener cities — lightweight and sustainable, it is even said to be more fire resistant than steel. The newest addition to the timber trend is a proposed 19-storey structure that will be built in the Swedish city of Skelleftea. Designed by architecture firm White Arkitekter, it […]
A glass slide fixed 1,000ft (305m) up on the outside of a skyscraper in Los Angeles opens to the public on Saturday. The Skyslide spans 45 ft from the 70th to the 69th floor of the US Bank Tower in the city. Despite being made of glass just one inch thick, it is built to […]
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The much-heralded “world’s highest and longest” glass-bottomed bridge has opened to visitors in central China. It connects two mountain cliffs in what are known as the Avatar mountains (the film was shot here) in Zhangjiajie, Hunan province. Completed in December, the 430m-long bridge cost $3.4m (£2.6m) to build and stands 300m above ground, state news […]
A building made of glass bricks is definitely there and yet you can see right through it. It has a sense of both presence and absence, solidity and transparency. It is really a very poetic building. The glass-bricked Crystal Houses, designed by Dutch architect Winy Maas and his team at MVRDV, received the Public Prize […]
A 31-storey luxury residential tower block in London’s Docklands called “jarring, unsettling and shambolic” by critics has won the 2016 Carbuncle Cup. The award handed out by Building Design magazine for a development judged to be the UK’s worst designed was given to Lincoln Plaza near Canary Wharf. The building was a “brain-numbing jumble of […]
