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Architectural Record - March 2024

2024 March

In March, RECORD cranes its neck to survey a quartet of cloud-brushing projects: A twin-tower development in Dubai linked by a record-breaking cantilever, a new addition to the London skyline with a Jenga-esque form that preserves views of historic sites, a Tokyo high-rise with a transit hub at its base, and the first full-block skyscraper to rise on Manhattan’s Park Avenue in 50 years. Keeping with the tall building theme, March’s special lighting section showcases vertical illumination schemes. Back on terra firma, we profile decidedly less-lanky new projects in Mexico City, Stockholm, Uruguay, Quebec City, and southeast China, and return to Tokyo for March’s stuccoed House of the Month.

Check back throughout the month for additional content.

Toranomon Hills Station Tower

Tall Buildings 2024

March 1, 2024

This month's issue of RECORD looks at the latest crop of tall and supertall buildings rising around the globe.

One Za’abeel

Twin Skyscrapers in Dubai Break a Mold, and a World Record Too

Leopoldo Villardi

Leopoldo Villardi

March 1, 2024

One Za'abeel—designed by Japan's oldest architecture firm, Nikken Sekkei—raises the bar in a city full of pastiche towers.

8 Bishopsgate

WilkinsonEyre's London Tower Navigates Planning Mandates with Nuanced Form and Clever Engineering

London

Joann Gonchar

Joann Gonchar, FAIA

March 1, 2024

A carefully considered response to its urban context, 8 Bishopsgate's stepped and subtly rotated volumes preserve views of historic sites.

425 Park Avenue

A Full-Block Office Building Rises on Park Avenue for the First Time in Half a Century

New York

Cliff P

Clifford A. Pearson

March 1, 2024

Foster + Partners' commercial tower on New York's fanciest boulevard combines old-school grandeur with flexible function.

Toranomon Hills Station Tower

In Tokyo, a Tower by OMA Twists and Turns to Embrace the Public

Tokyo

Josephine Minutillo

Josephine Minutillo

March 7, 2024

The 126-foot-long light installation on the underside of the project's sky bridge encourages connection to the cosmos.

Toranomon Hills Station Tower

Tall Buildings 2024

March 1, 2024

This month's issue of RECORD looks at the latest crop of tall and supertall buildings rising around the globe.

Tekniska Museet

A Stockholm Museum's Mass-Timber Dome Inspires Passion for the Sciences

Stockholm

Andrew Ayers

March 20, 2024

Elding Oscarson's monumental ‘Wisdome’ at Tekniska Museet gives new shape to engineered wood products.

Chinese Promenade and Cafe

Landscape

A Colorful Café and Pavilion by SelgasCano Enliven a Sprawling Housing Complex in China

Rizhao, China

Cliff P

Clifford A. Pearson

March 11, 2024

Wiggling through a phalanx of mid-rise housing blocks, the covered promenade serves as a colorful antidote to its regimented setting.

Zaishui Art Museum

Junya Ishigami’s Zaishui Art Museum Nimbly Extends Across a Lake in China’s Shandong Province

Rizhao City, China

Naomi Pollock, FAIA

January 31, 2024

Long, linear, and devoid of visual boundaries, the floating arts center is one of multiple commissions by the Japanese architect in the Bailuwan development.

La Flor

A Children's Learning Center in Uruguay Anchors a Community-Oriented Campus

La Barra, Uruguay

A. Krista Sykes

March 11, 2024

La Flor, designed by livni+ and Diego Arraigada Arquitectos, features seven circular pods, each of which accommodates a different activity.

PILARES

Stately Brick Arches Turn a Community Center in Mexico into a Castle for Everybody

Mexico City

March 11, 2024

One of hundreds of planned centers across Mexico City, Derek Dellekamp's PILARES Quetzalcóatl is marked by an elegant motif of repeating arches.

Josephine Minutillo, Editor in Chief of Architectural Record

March 2024 Editor’s Letter

Rise and Shine

Josephine Minutillo

Josephine Minutillo

March 4, 2024

As the demand for tall buildings endures, new considerations of form and function will have to emerge.

Merdeka 118 and Jeddah Tower

Enthusiasm for Building Tall Endures

Joann Gonchar

Joann Gonchar, FAIA

March 4, 2024

There's a new "world's second tallest" building, in Malysia, while the one vying for first place—the Jeddah Tower—resumes work.

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Commentary

Anomalies in Architectural Criticism: Skyscrapers of the Early 20th Century

Suzanne-Stephens

Suzanne Stephens

March 4, 2024

Looking at a handful of projects from the 1920s through 1940s, Suzanne Stephens traces shifting attitudes toward tall buildings in architectural criticism.

Praxis City Rendering

RECORD Forum

New Frontiers: Praxis and the Pitfalls of Techno-Utopias

March 4, 2024

Forum: An ambitious city-building initiative expresses conflicting desires through architecture, writes Pansy Schulman.

House of the Month

Clay House by Atelier Tsuyoshi Tane Architects Puts Japanese Craft in the Limelight

Tokyo

Naomi Pollock, FAIA

March 15, 2024

Wrapped in a textured stucco facade, this home for one in Tokyo contains a rich material palette and a trove of exquisite details.

Bateson Building Atrium

In 'Atrium,' Charles Rice Untangles the Private and Public Politics of Interior Enclosures

Leopoldo Villardi

Leopoldo Villardi

March 11, 2024

The Sydney-based historian charts the atrium through the shifting nature of postwar architectural practice.

Promenade Samuel de Champlain

Landscape

Daoust Lestage Lizotte Stecker Creates an Urban Oasis Along a Stretch of Quebec City Riverfront

Quebec City

Matt Hickman

March 14, 2024

The third and final phase of Promenade Samuel-de-Champlain includes a public beach, infinity pool, and more set against the St. Lawrence River.

Doric Column Skyscraper

Guess the Architect: March 2024

March 5, 2024

This project's polemical suggestion—office tower as oversized doric column—reflected the architect's quixotic response to one of the period's defining challenges.

Atlantis The Royal

Snapshot: KPF's Superscale Atlantis The Royal Reworks the Logic of a Tall Building

Dubai

Leopoldo Villardi

Leopoldo Villardi

March 15, 2024

Fourty-three stories high and over a quarter mile in length, the resort stretches out along one of the largest man-made archipelagos in the world.

Marsha Maytum

Tribute: Marsha Maytum (1954–2024)

Joann Gonchar

Joann Gonchar, FAIA

February 10, 2024

The San Francisco–based co-founder of Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects is remembered as a mentor, a pioneer of sustainable design, and a firm believer that architecture should serve people of all backgrounds and abilities.

Firmament

Leo Villareal Punctuates Tokyo's Toranomon Hills Station Tower with Dynamic Illumination

Tokyo

Josephine Minutillo

Josephine Minutillo

March 1, 2024

The 126-foot-long light installation on the underside of the project's sky bridge encourages connection to the cosmos.

Mori JP Tower

Subtle Moves with Outsize Impact—Day and Night—Enhance Japan’s Tallest Building

Tokyo

Leopoldo Villardi

Leopoldo Villardi

March 1, 2024

L'Observatoire International's lighting scheme for the Pelli Clarke & Partners–designed Mori JP Tower employs curves, lines, and gradients to elegant effect.

Hangzhou Century Tower

Hangzhou Century Center's Lighting Array Embraces Spectacle

Hangzhou, China

Matthew Marani

March 1, 2024

Six thousand LEDs illuminate this SOM–designed tower, emphasizing its sweeping facade.

712 Fifth Avenue

Case Study: Glass & Glazing

Kohn Pedersen Fox Revamps a New York Lobby with Art Nouveau–Inspired Glazing

New York

Matthew Marani

March 21, 2024

The firm modernizes its 1989 office tower with a sinuous glass entrance.

New Glass and Glazing Products for Winter 2024

New Glass and Glazing Products for Spring 2024

March 21, 2024

Updated glass and glazing products enhance building perfomance and security while reducing material waste.

New Lighting Products for Winter 2024

New Lighting Products for Spring 2024

March 28, 2024

Advances in technology bring greater flexibility and efficiency to lighting design.

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