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Tall Building: 56 Leonard Street, New York

By John de Guzman on June 10, 2009 11:00 PM | | Comments (2) | | | |
I'm way into big buildings.  They do a lot more for a city's character and future than most people recognize.  So, I think it's HAWTaction [hot ak-shuhn] to keep tabs on new projects like the Archipelago 21, Dancing Tower (Kuwait), Tall Building Update, City of Silk, Shanghai Tower, Russia Tower, Anara Tower, Okhta Tower, Nakheel Harbour and Tower, Bahrain WTC, Honeycomb Skyscraper, Burj Dubai... in Dubai... in Pictures, CCTV and TVCC Towers, Tokyo Sky Tree, Burj Dubai (Revisited), Dancing Towers, Dynamic Tower, Dubai Towers, The Lighthouse (Paris), The Lighthouse (Dubai), Antilla, London's Super Tower, Eiffel Tower, Shuffle Tower, Full Moon, Caspian Bay, Chicago Spire, Chicago's Aqua Tower, Infinity Tower, Teardrop, Christmas Tree or the Burj Dubai.

There was a glut of Tall Building posts last year, when the economy was still bloated like a Crumbs cupcake.  Lately, it's been a Tall Building desert.  HAWT has had to dive through any and all architecture news to find a structure (any structure) to report on.  It has been pathetic... and we at HAWT expect Obama to refill our cup by passing a $100,459 trillion billion stimulus package to bring back sassy architecture projects.

Well, I was slipping through buildings coming to NYC, and I found some gems I hadn't before discovered.  Like this.  This is a building coming to 56 Leonard St.

652655.jpgSure, that doesn't look like much.  Boring, right?  But wait until we step closer.

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Olympic Building: The Bird's Nest

By John de Guzman on August 6, 2008 11:00 AM | | Comments (1) | | | |
08-08-08.  The Olympics are going to hit Beijing like a political sledgehammer.  One thing the world can agree on, though, is that Beijing's Olympic buildings are stunning.  The Bird's Nest and the Water Cube?  They have no precedent.  They are totally ground-breaking.  You'll see.

The Bird's Nest

Img214260925.jpgIt's a bit difficult to digest all that's there with a single shot, so take my hand and I'll lead you through it.  There's a stadium in there.  A 91,000-seat Olympic stadium.  It's surrounded by steel, so much steel that it is officially the largest steel structure in the world.  How much steel?  Well, 36 kilometers of it (over 22 miles).  Even more odd, that steel is a separate building from the stadium inside.  Let's take a look.

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