This week, Zaha Hadid Architects completed a skyscraper and unveiled plans for a train station
This week on Dezeen, Zaha Hadid Architects completed a skyscraper with the world's tallest atrium and revealed its plans for a high-speed train station in Estonia.
The 45-storey Leeza Soho skyscraper, designed by the late Zaha Hadid before her death in 2016, contains the world's tallest atrium twisting through its centre.
Located in the Fengtai business district in Beijing, China, the 172,800-square-metre tower is a response to demand from small and medium-sized businesses in the city for flexible and efficient office-space.
Zaha Hadid Architects unveils plans for high-speed train station in Tallinn
Dezeen also reported on Zaha Hadid Architects' reveal of visuals for the multimodal Ülemiste terminal in Tallinn, Estonia, which will be the beginning of an electrified 540-mile-long railway connecting the Baltic states with Poland. The new terminal will form part of the Rail Baltica high-speed rail network, and will create links between the city's bus, tram and rail routes and adjacent airport.
The Lloyd's building is Richard Rogers' first high-tech office block
Elsewhere in architecture news, we continued our high-tech architecture series by taking a look at Norman Foster's Renault Distribution Centre in Swindon and the inside-out Lloyd's building in London by Richard Rogers.
Bêka & Lemoine's latest film shows Venice's worst flood in half a century
A film showing the impact of Venice's recent floods was also popular with readers this week, created by architectural filmm...
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