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Hillier Group (associate architects and interior design) The LVMH Tower is a 24-story high-rise office tower on 57th Street , near Madison Avenue , in Midtown Manhattan , New York City . Designed by Christian de Portzamparc , the building opened in 1999 as the overseas headquarters of Paris -based LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton SE .
If the service core (which contains the elevator shafts) becomes too big, it can reduce the profitability of the building. Architects must therefore balance the value gained by adding height against the value lost to the expanding service core. [10] Many tall buildings use elevators in a non-standard configuration to reduce their footprint.
[42] [41] Before the official plans for the building were announced, the architects had designed a roof sloped at a 45-degree corner, which was to contain west-facing terraces [43] [44] for about 100 apartments, [45] [46] but the New York City Department of City Planning would not approve a zoning change to permit that use.
A proposed 18-story apartment building in downtown Knoxville received unanimous approval from the Design Review Board after three months of back-and-forth discussion and public criticism, mostly ...
Mulia Group Architects: The Exchange 106: Kuala Lumpur Malaysia: NBBJ: Eton Place Dalian: Dalian China: Nikken Sekkei: One Za'abeel Tower 1: Dubai United Arab Emirates: Norr Group: Emirates Office Tower: Dubai United Arab Emirates: Jumeirah Emirates Towers Hotel: Dubai United Arab Emirates: Address Boulevard: Dubai United Arab Emirates: Yahya ...
Robert Taylor Homes was a public housing project in the Bronzeville neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois from 1962 to 2007. The second largest housing project in the United States, it consisted of 28 virtually identical high-rises, set out in a linear plan for two miles (3 km), with the high-rises regularly configured in a horseshoe shape of three in each block.
Worried that a high wind could cause the building to collapse, LeMessurier directed that the building be reinforced. The reinforcements were made stealthily at night while the offices in the building were open for regular operation during the day. The concern was for the integrity of the building structure in high wind conditions.
Tower 333 received Gold-level certification for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Core & Shell from the U.S. Green Building Council. It was the first newly constructed office building in the city of Bellevue to achieve LEED Gold certification. [11] The building was designed by LMN Architects of Seattle.