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The winning selection in an international design competition, our design for the Lotte Super Tower presents a sleek, modern image for the Lotte Moolsan Group in the 21st century. Taking inspiration from traditional Korean art forms in the design of the various interior program spaces, the sleek tapered form of the 555-meter (1,821-foot), 123-story tower will stand out from the city's rocky mountainous topography.

The tower is organized around a mixed-use program, comprising retail, office, "office-tel", and hotel, as well as an observation deck at the top. The building's first nine floors will contain retail; offices will occupy floors 11 to 47; 25 floors of "office-tel" on floors 52 to 75; and a 7-star luxury hotel will comprise floors 80 to 109. The building's top 10 stories are earmarked for extensive public use and entertainment facilities including an observation deck and rooftop café. Upon completion in 2014, it will be the tallest building in Asia

Our design melds a modern aesthetic with forms inspired by the historic Korean arts of ceramics, porcelain, and calligraphy. The tower's uninterrupted curvature and gentle tapered form is reflective of Korean artistry. The seam that runs from top to bottom of the structure gestures toward the old center of city. Elegance of form was one of the prime objectives, following Lotte's desire to bestow a beautiful monument to the capital city skyline. Exterior materials will be light-toned silver glass accented by a filigree of white lacquered metal.

The building design will seek a LEED Gold accreditation, a measure of the owner's commitment to environmental responsibility. Sustainable design strategies incorporated into the design include photo-voltaic panels, wind turbines, external shading devices and water harvesting systems. This long anticipated project has now earned all major zoning approvals, and excavation is nearly complete.

Guangxi Airport Management Group LTD Beijing Institute of Architectural Design (BIAD), Local Design Institute Transportation + Infrastructure 1.3 million ft2 / 130,000 m2

Control Tower and terminal area located between two long-distance runways. Schematic designs include the airport terminal building, parking area, on-grade transportation facilities (landside) and traffic circulation design.

Creating a strong and powerful center provides a critical sense of place. By forming the head house or main terminal departure hall and the two vertical piers into a crescent just such a center is established within the airside court. Having this center occur outside the departure hall moves the focus to the kinetic choreography of aircraft docking and departing, an activity that never ceases to stir the imagination. Flanking the central court and defined by the horizontal pier or outstretched tail are two more open spaces that also provide visual access to the aircraft. Smaller garden courts fill in between the primary courts and endow the composition with a natural more intimate counterpoint to the larger spaces.

Each of the four piers is composed of Ying and Yang interlocking ‘C’ elements in section. The more robust metallic solid ‘C’ form focuses the traveler on the airfield with its primary gesture opening to that side. Within the back of the ‘C’ windows and skylights provide limited views to the exterior. Nested within the first ‘C’ figure a more ephemeral transparent ‘C’ profile gestures back and encloses the space of the pier. This glass figure allows unobstructed panoramic views to the airfield.

The archeological artifact of the phoenix oil lamp has also provided a cultural spring point for the ideas of the form and shape of the terminal station. This bird artifact strongly associated with this region also has an international resonance that always reminds one of flight. The shape of the building can be conceived of as two overlapping phoenix figures, each facing back toward one another. The organizational systems have been carefully created to illustrate the dynamic flow of one figure into the other and specifically highlight the overlap.

The enclosure of the building formally imitates the qualities of the phoenix by utilizing the concept of feathering in a variety of ways. Smaller ruffled feathers define the body of the bird or main hall, the space of overlap. The enclosure lifts open in a series of small panels forming a diamond pattern across the surface of the large graceful curve. These are skylights that flood the hall with natural ambient light ideal of the activities of the travelers below. More elongated feathers are found on the neck and tail of the bird figures, that is, on the horizontal and vertical piers. Here a series of overlapping vaults allow for the integration of feature skylights and signature windows in each of the piers. These elements create subtle figures where skylights and windows emerge and recede across the enclosure surface, thus allowing the light to bring the building to life.

Within the main hall, pairs of ‘V’ shape columns reiterate the theme. The slender columns fan across the ceiling reminiscent of still photographs of a bird’s wing captured in fight. The structure animates the space and reminds the traveler of the journey to come. This dynamic expression is achieved by taking full advantage of the natural properties of the diagrid roof structure, ‘V’ shaped columns and the concrete base structure working into a singular composite system.

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The winning selection in an international design competition, our design for the Lotte Super Tower presents a sleek, modern image for the Lotte Moolsan Group in the 21st century. Taking inspiration from traditional Korean art forms in the design of the various interior program spaces, the sleek tapered form of the 555-meter (1,821-foot), 123-story tower will stand out from the city's rocky mountainous topography.

The tower is organized around a mixed-use program, comprising retail, office, "office-tel", and hotel, as well as an observation deck at the top. The building's first nine floors will contain retail; offices will occupy floors 11 to 47; 25 floors of "office-tel" on floors 52 to 75; and a 7-star luxury hotel will comprise floors 80 to 109. The building's top 10 stories are earmarked for extensive public use and entertainment facilities including an observation deck and rooftop café. Upon completion in 2014, it will be the tallest building in Asia

Our design melds a modern aesthetic with forms inspired by the historic Korean arts of ceramics, porcelain, and calligraphy. The tower's uninterrupted curvature and gentle tapered form is reflective of Korean artistry. The seam that runs from top to bottom of the structure gestures toward the old center of city. Elegance of form was one of the prime objectives, following Lotte's desire to bestow a beautiful monument to the capital city skyline. Exterior materials will be light-toned silver glass accented by a filigree of white lacquered metal.

The building design will seek a LEED Gold accreditation, a measure of the owner's commitment to environmental responsibility. Sustainable design strategies incorporated into the design include photo-voltaic panels, wind turbines, external shading devices and water harvesting systems. This long anticipated project has now earned all major zoning approvals, and excavation is nearly complete.

Guangxi Airport Management Group LTD Beijing Institute of Architectural Design (BIAD), Local Design Institute Transportation + Infrastructure 1.3 million ft2 / 130,000 m2

Control Tower and terminal area located between two long-distance runways. Schematic designs include the airport terminal building, parking area, on-grade transportation facilities (landside) and traffic circulation design.

Creating a strong and powerful center provides a critical sense of place. By forming the head house or main terminal departure hall and the two vertical piers into a crescent just such a center is established within the airside court. Having this center occur outside the departure hall moves the focus to the kinetic choreography of aircraft docking and departing, an activity that never ceases to stir the imagination. Flanking the central court and defined by the horizontal pier or outstretched tail are two more open spaces that also provide visual access to the aircraft. Smaller garden courts fill in between the primary courts and endow the composition with a natural more intimate counterpoint to the larger spaces.

Each of the four piers is composed of Ying and Yang interlocking ‘C’ elements in section. The more robust metallic solid ‘C’ form focuses the traveler on the airfield with its primary gesture opening to that side. Within the back of the ‘C’ windows and skylights provide limited views to the exterior. Nested within the first ‘C’ figure a more ephemeral transparent ‘C’ profile gestures back and encloses the space of the pier. This glass figure allows unobstructed panoramic views to the airfield.

The archeological artifact of the phoenix oil lamp has also provided a cultural spring point for the ideas of the form and shape of the terminal station. This bird artifact strongly associated with this region also has an international resonance that always reminds one of flight. The shape of the building can be conceived of as two overlapping phoenix figures, each facing back toward one another. The organizational systems have been carefully created to illustrate the dynamic flow of one figure into the other and specifically highlight the overlap.

The enclosure of the building formally imitates the qualities of the phoenix by utilizing the concept of feathering in a variety of ways. Smaller ruffled feathers define the body of the bird or main hall, the space of overlap. The enclosure lifts open in a series of small panels forming a diamond pattern across the surface of the large graceful curve. These are skylights that flood the hall with natural ambient light ideal of the activities of the travelers below. More elongated feathers are found on the neck and tail of the bird figures, that is, on the horizontal and vertical piers. Here a series of overlapping vaults allow for the integration of feature skylights and signature windows in each of the piers. These elements create subtle figures where skylights and windows emerge and recede across the enclosure surface, thus allowing the light to bring the building to life.

Within the main hall, pairs of ‘V’ shape columns reiterate the theme. The slender columns fan across the ceiling reminiscent of still photographs of a bird’s wing captured in fight. The structure animates the space and reminds the traveler of the journey to come. This dynamic expression is achieved by taking full advantage of the natural properties of the diagrid roof structure, ‘V’ shaped columns and the concrete base structure working into a singular composite system.

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The winning selection in an international design competition, our design for the Lotte Super Tower presents a sleek, modern image for the Lotte Moolsan Group in the 21st century. Taking inspiration from traditional Korean art forms in the design of the various interior program spaces, the sleek tapered form of the 555-meter (1,821-foot), 123-story tower will stand out from the city's rocky mountainous topography.

The tower is organized around a mixed-use program, comprising retail, office, "office-tel", and hotel, as well as an observation deck at the top. The building's first nine floors will contain retail; offices will occupy floors 11 to 47; 25 floors of "office-tel" on floors 52 to 75; and a 7-star luxury hotel will comprise floors 80 to 109. The building's top 10 stories are earmarked for extensive public use and entertainment facilities including an observation deck and rooftop café. Upon completion in 2014, it will be the tallest building in Asia

Our design melds a modern aesthetic with forms inspired by the historic Korean arts of ceramics, porcelain, and calligraphy. The tower's uninterrupted curvature and gentle tapered form is reflective of Korean artistry. The seam that runs from top to bottom of the structure gestures toward the old center of city. Elegance of form was one of the prime objectives, following Lotte's desire to bestow a beautiful monument to the capital city skyline. Exterior materials will be light-toned silver glass accented by a filigree of white lacquered metal.

The building design will seek a LEED Gold accreditation, a measure of the owner's commitment to environmental responsibility. Sustainable design strategies incorporated into the design include photo-voltaic panels, wind turbines, external shading devices and water harvesting systems. This long anticipated project has now earned all major zoning approvals, and excavation is nearly complete.

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As a centerpiece of the Tian Di Master Plan, the Chongqing Super High-rise Tower project will provide a synergy of uses, including office, residential, retail and entertainment to bring energy, activity and value to the site. Inspired by the sailing ships that once plied the waters of the surrounding Yangtze and Jialing Rivers, the Chongqing Super High-rise Tower’s lightness and graceful form is expressed both in the simple form of the tower and in adjacent low-rise towers and retail podium.

A central public plaza at the center of the project site, situated between the main tower, retail podium and low-rise residential and office towers, acts as a place of assembly and meeting. Transformable structure gives the ability to provide shelter for events, and elevated platform edges provide a panoramic view of the Jialing River. The ceremonial drop-off and formal entry landscape at the south end of the site are integrated with the central plaza through continued use of paving to soften the edges of the project landscape and allow for emergency vehicle access.

The two smaller towers—a low service apartment block to the east and a mid-rise single use office tower to the west—have been placed on the site so as to minimize cross viewing between each other, and have been scaled to relate to the height of the buildings proposed for the adjacent sites. All three towers employ a similar, but not identical, architectural vocabulary to visually reinforce one another and provide identity to this first phase of development.

The planning and massing of the 4-story retail podium has been conceived to take advantage of the two distinct frontalities on site, again taking influence from the sail form--developed to look almost like a piece of sail cloth blowing in the breeze. The south face of the podium is developed as a continuous street wall, meant to pair with the future development across the street and to provide continuity to the scale of urban fabric. More critically, the podium has been developed with sky-lit atrium/arcades that pass from this south façade through the retail elements to an external, elevated promenade facing the river. This public amenity, raised above the roadway that runs along the river’s edge, will give spectacular views and provide space for a dynamic mix of entertainment, retail, restaurants and cafes.

The curtain wall design aims to instill a sense of movement and lightness, consisting of glass that envelops the curving form of the towers and sloping inwards as they rise adding to the organic feel of the structures. This form also helps to minimize light contamination, as the light hitting the exterior surfaces will be dispersed rather than concentrated. Constructed of repeating 9-meter modules with repetitive patterns of vertically-linked double-story units, the framing emphasizes the double-curved form of the tower and suggests the tension of sails in the wind. The glazing will be of high performance IGUs, with a mildly reflective coating (roughly 20% reflectivity) on the second surface of a lightly tinted glass.