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Sapphire by the Gardens, designed by Fender Katsalidis & COX Architecture
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Highsun Group’s new headquarters in Fuzhou.

📐 @gensler_design
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Superimpose Architecture completed the Huawei flagship store in the historic centre of Beijing. Enormous 8.8 metre tall curved triple SGP laminated glass

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The Aldar HQ is a disc shaped building in Abu Dhabi, the building envelope consists of 20,000 m2 of unitised glass façade. The circular oval shape is achieved using triangular glass units.

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📐 @mz_architects

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40 Tenth Avenue is located between the High Line park and the Hudson River, it takes its unique form from the sun’s path, known as ‘solar carving’ it involves using incident angles of the sun’s rays to sculpt a buildings form.📐@studiogang
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Kineum (from the Greek kineo, to set in motion) is a high-rise building located Gothenburg, Sweden.

📸 @antonadielsson
📐 @reflex_arkitekter

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Catching the Sun ☀️, 550 Spencer Street in Melbourne has 1182 PV panels in the façade that harvest sunlight and coverts it to electricity resulting in the building producing more energy than it uses.
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Sapphire by the Gardens is designed by Fender Katsalidis and COX Architecture, it consists a 61 storey hotel and a 60 storey residential tower connected by a golden ribbon-like sky bridge on level 46.
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The twisted glass towers of the @UNStudio_Arch designed Raffles City in Hangzhou are 253m / 841 ft tall. Each of the towers has 3 main facade types, the urban facing facade, the tail… https://t.co/QTNC3uaMe6

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This photo from tinyfissh captures the 3 tallest buildings in Shanghai, the @kohnpedersenfox designed Shanghai world financial Center, the @genslerlfstyle designed Shanghai tower and on… https://t.co/t7FW8X9W1w

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The wood_marsh designed Abian Apartments building in Brisbane has a shimmering all glass facade that gently tapers from the ground, the facade has a subtle silver tint that changes in… https://t.co/8DlvSLPIjA

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Designed by goettschpartners the 19 storey Kapok Hotel Shenzhen Bay is clad entirely in glass. The glass facade has integrated operable windows in each room and is overlaid with a… https://t.co/nut4CwqD97

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The @PeterSikker designed Sogn and Fjordane Art Museum was designed to resemble a massive block of ice that has rolled down from the frozen mountains. Situated in Førde Norway it was… https://t.co/3v6iVxV215

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Torre Espacio is an office tower in Madrid designed by @peicobbfreed, it was completed in 2008 and has an architectural height of 224 m/735 ft. The tower evolves from a square at its base… https://t.co/miXH3DdN3S

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The undulating glass facade of of the _dixonjones designed Kings Place in London is made up of laminated pieces of glass. The pieces are 2m / 6.5ft long and have a curve of only 3cm /… https://t.co/OEBKJzhalh

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727 West Madison is a residential tower in Chicago that was designed by @fitzarch, it is 150m/495ft tall and has 44 storeys above ground. #727westmadison #glassatecture #glassisclass #glassarchitecture #glassfacade #glassbuilding #archi #archigram #glassart #superarchitects …

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The inside of the @samynandpartners designed Europa building in Brussels has a lantern like structure clad in trapezoidal glass panels that are diagonally banded, the white bands alternate direction from panel to panel and also vary in width to achieve different transparenci…

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The beautiful @rmjmofficial designed Gate to the East in Suzhou has a enormous glass facade. It is 300m / 990 ft tall with 66 floors above ground and was completed in 2015
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@sauerbruchhutton love the use of colours and intelligent dynamic facades in their designs and the KFW Bank in Frankfurt is a great example of this. The building won the CTBUH award for the best tall building overall in 2011. The double skin facade consists of an encircling …

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The beautiful @kohnpedersenfox designed Gubei Soho has topped out, the 38 storey office tower has a very distinct zig zag profile inspired by Brancusi’s endless Column 📸 @soho_china
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