Architects continue to find ways to make a city skyline different from any other. One example is this “carved” tower, designed by Kengo Kuma and backed by developer Westbank Projects Corporation.
According to Vancity Buzz, the 40-story residential tower, to be built in downtown Vancouver’s West End neighborhood, will have 188 residential units, “with many units within the carved deductions possessing substantially sized patios.”
Interior materials will be dominated by the use of timber and bamboo. The exact height of the tower is yet to be specified.
The tower’s foot will host retail space and a restaurant. A ground-level Japanese moss garden with water and natural features along a cascading plateau will welcome both residents and the public as an amenity.
The cost and projected date of completion is still pending. A rezoning application for the tower will be submitted this fall.
Another building the Japanese architect has designed in North America is Rolex’s new office tower in Dallas.
Read the full report at Vancity Buzz.
Related Stories
| Aug 11, 2010
CityCenter Takes Experience Design To New Heights
It's early June, in Las Vegas, which means it's very hot, and I am coming to the end of a hardhat tour of the $9.2 billion CityCenter development, a tour that began in the air-conditioned comfort of the project's immense sales center just off the famed Las Vegas Strip and ended on a rooftop overlooking the largest privately funded development in the U.
| Aug 11, 2010
Giants 300 Multifamily Report
Multifamily housing starts dropped to 100,000 in April—the lowest level in several decades—due to still-worsening conditions in the apartment market. Nonetheless, the April total is below trend, so starts will move progressively back to a still-depressed 150,000-unit pace by late next year.
| Aug 11, 2010
The softer side of Sears
Built in 1928 as a shining Art Deco beacon for the upper Midwest, the Sears building in Minneapolis—with its 16-story central tower, department store, catalog center, and warehouse—served customers throughout the Twin Cities area for more than 65 years. But as nearby neighborhoods deteriorated and the catalog operation was shut down, by 1994 the once-grand structure was reduced to ...
| Aug 11, 2010
Gold Award: Westin Book Cadillac Hotel & Condominiums Detroit, Mich.
“From eyesore to icon.” That's how Reconstruction Awards judge K. Nam Shiu so concisely described the restoration effort that turned the decimated Book Cadillac Hotel into a modern hotel and condo development. The tallest hotel in the world when it opened in 1924, the 32-story Renaissance Revival structure was revered as a jewel in the then-bustling Motor City.
