This week Snøhetta renovated Philip Johnson's AT&T building
This week on Dezeen, architecture studio Snøhetta unveiled its "surgical" renovation of the postmodern 550 Madison skyscraper in New York, formerly known as the AT&T building.
The Norwegian studio converted the 197-metre-high skyscraper designed by Philip Johnson from a single-occupancy into a multiple-occupancy building by opening up some of the facades, adding a public garden and improving its ventilation and elevation systems.
Snøhetta had originally drawn up a more elaborate transformation plan for the building in 2017, but this was nixed by the city government. The final version scales back interventions to the building's facade, with only a small portion of the original stone removed.
The Telus Sky Tower twists diagonally from its base In other architecture news, Danish studio BIG released photos of its Telus Sky Tower in Calgary, Canada, which it describes as having a "feminine silhouette". The twisting skyscraper contains both offices and residential programs, which informed its design.
Meanwhile, Studio Daniel Libeskind unveiled its design for a contemporary extension to the iconic Boerentoren tower in Antwerp, Belgium, which will sit on top of the high-rise like a crown.
Week has designed a conceptual tower made from concrete
As the World Cup kicked off in Qatar, architecture studio Week designed a conceptual memorial to visualise the number of reported deaths connected to the 2022 FIFA World Cup. The tower would be constructed from concr...
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