Foster + Partners' 425 Park Avenue skyscraper nears completion in New York

Architectural photographer Alan Schindler has revealed images of Foster + Partners' 425 Park Avenue skyscraper, which is nearing completion in New York.

The photos show that the glass facade of the 260-metre-high skyscraper on Park Avenue, which is being built for developer L&L Holding, is fully installed.

425 Park Avenue is nearing completion

The 41-storey office building occupies a full block on Park Avenue in midtown Manhattan near Rafael Viñoly Architects' super skinny 432 Park Avenue skyscraper and Philip Johnson and John Burgee's Postmodern AT&T Building.

Designed by UK architecture studio Foster + Partners the skyscraper is divided into three sections that step back from the street and are reduced in size as the building rises.

The skyscraper's cladding is complete

The skyscraper's seven-storey base contains a triple-height lobby for the offices above. It will contain a restaurant on the lowest three floors with above space above.

Above the base section is a triple-height space, which is enclosed by a diagrid of columns that mark the building narrowing. This space will contain cafes and facilities for meetings and conferences and will have an outdoor terrace.

Triple-height spaces will divide the office floors

The recessed central section above this contains further offices and will be topped with a second triple-height space enclosed by a diagrid of columns.

This floor will also have an outdoor terrace.

These spaces will contain cafes and communal facilities

Above this will be the final 20 floors of offices that are all column-free spaces.

The building is topped with a penthouse floor that will have views across Manhattan.

The penthouse space will have views across Manhattan

Photos also show the three ornamental steel and glass fins that are at the top of the building. These forms are now fully clad.

According to the developer, the process of removing the skyscraper's exterior tower crane has begun and the temporary certificate of occupancy is expected in December.

425 Park Avenue is topped with three ornamental steel and glass fins

425 Park Avenue is one of several skyscrapers currently under construction in New York. Foster + Partners super-skinny One Hundred East Fifty Third skyscraper is also nearing completion, while British architect David Adjaye is designing his first New York high-rise: a 66-storey concrete skyscraper in Downtown Manhattan.

Another tower close to completion is Central Park Tower by architecture firm Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill, which will be the tallest residential building in the world.

Photography is by Alan Schindler.

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Project credits:

Architect: Foster + Partners
Architect of record: Adamson Associates Architects
Structural engineer: WSP
MEP engineer: WSP
Construction manager: Tishman Construction

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Stunning Photographs Capture the International Space Station Traveling Across the Sun and Moon

All images © Andrew McCarthy, shared with permission

Back in October, Sacramento-based photographer Andrew McCarthy staked out in his backyard to document the International Space Station on one of its trips across the sun. Using two scopes, he successfully captured the image, which frames the station in the upper left corner of the fiery mass.

Two weeks later, he repeated that process: “Yesterday morning after spending hours scouting for the right location, I set up my gear on the side of a road hoping to capture something I’ve never seen before. The ISS, illuminated by daylight, transiting a razor-thin crescent moon,” he writes on Instagram. McCarthy’s endeavor is particularly impressive because when standing on Earth, the ISS passes both celestial bodies in less than a second.

Prints of McCarthy’s stunning photographs are available from Image Kind. He also offers digital wallpapers and updates on his latest projects and celestial happenings on Patreon. (via PetaPixel)

 

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AHEAD Middle East and Africa hospitality awards winners to be announced in virtual ceremony

The winners of the AHEAD Middle East and Africa awards will be announced on Monday in a virtual ceremony broadcast on Dezeen.

The ceremony will take place from 2:00pm Dubai time, which is 12:00pm South Africa time and 10am UK time, and will be broadcast on Dezeen as well as on our YouTube channel.

The event will feature exclusive video content from the AHEAD Middle East and Africa (MEA) nominees, as well as from the judges and sponsors of the awards programme.

You can add the event to your calendar by clicking on this link.

The ceremony is taking place digitally rather than at a real-world event due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

Championing standout hospitality projects from around the world, the AHEAD awards focuses on four different regions: MEA, the Americas, Asia and Europe.

The 2020 AHEAD MEA competition will review projects that have opened, reopened or launched in the region between January 2019 and February of this year.

In June, Dezeen broadcast a ceremony announcing the winners of the AHEAD Americas awards 2020 as part of Virtual Design Festival.

See the full shortlist below:

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Bar, Club or Lounge

Archer Bar & Eatery at Marriott Hotel Melrose Arch, Johannesburg, South Africa
Twenty Three Rooftop Bar at Grand Plaza Mövenpick Media City, Dubai, UAE
Siddharta Lounge by Buddha Bar at W Muscat, Oman
St. Trop at Waldorf Astoria Dubai International Financial Centre, UAE

Guestrooms

Four Seasons Hotel Doha, Qatar
Lekkerwater Beach Lodge, De Hoop Nature Reserve, South Africa
The Farmstead at Royal Malewane, Hoedspruit, South Africa
The Westin Dubai Mina Seyahi, UAE

Hotel Newbuild

Marriott Hotel Melrose Arch, Johannesburg, South Africa
ME Dubai at Opus, UAE
The Museum Hotel Antakya, Turkey
The Social House Nairobi, Kenya

Landscaping & Outdoor Spaces

Anantara Sahara Tozeur Resort & Villas, Tunisia
Le Palais Ronsard, Marrakech, Morocco
The Farmstead at Royal Malewane, Hoedspruit, South Africa
The Oberoi Marrakech, Morocco

Lobby & Public Spaces

Le Palais Ronsard, Marrakech, Morocco
Marriott Hotel Melrose Arch, Johannesburg, South Africa
ME Dubai at Opus, UAE
Vida Hotel Emirates Hills, Dubai, UAE

Lodges, Cabins & Tented Camps

Abelana River Lodge, Phalaborwa, South Africa
andBeyond Ngala Treehouse, Timbavati Private Game Reserve, South Africa
Habitas Namibia
King's Pool, Linyanti Wildlife Reserve, Botswana
Lepogo Lodges' Noka Camp, South Africa
Puku Ridge, South Luangwa National Park, Zambia
Zannier Hotels Sonop, Namibia

Renovation, Restoration & Conversion

andBeyond Sossusvlei Desert Lodge, Namibrand Nature Reserve, Namibia
Four Seasons Hotel Doha, Qatar
Le Palais Ronsard, Marrakech, Morocco
Long Lee Manor, Shamwari Private Game Reserve, South Africa

Resort

Al Wathba, a Luxury Collection Desert Resort & Spa, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Anantara Sahara Tozeur Resort & Villas, Tunisia
The Oberoi Marrakech, Morocco
W Muscat, Oman

Restaurant

Bull & Bear at Waldorf Astoria Dubai International Financial Centre, UAE
Keystone at Marriott Hotel Melrose Arch, Johannesburg, South Africa
Mina's Kitchen at The Westin Dubai Mina Seyahi, UAE
Nammos Restaurant at Four Seasons Resort Dubai, UAE

Restaurant

Bull & Bear at Waldorf Astoria Dubai International Financial Centre, UAE
Keystone at Marriott Hotel Melrose Arch, Johannesburg, South Africa
Mina's Kitchen at The Westin Dubai Mina Seyahi, UAE
Nammos Restaurant at Four Seasons Resort Dubai, UAE

Suite

Anantara Sahara Tozeur Resort & Villas, Tunisia
Four Seasons Hotel Doha, Qatar
Le Palais Ronsard, Marrakech, Morocco
Marriott Hotel Melrose Arch, Johannesburg, South Africa

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BIG unveils The Village student centre for Johns Hopkins University

Architecture firm BIG has won a competition to design a village-like student centre for the John Hopkins research university in Baltimore, Maryland.

BIG came up with The Village design proposal for the Hopkins Student Center in response to an international design competition.

The winning scheme for the 150,000-square-foot (13,935-square-metre) building will provide a non-academic hub on the Homewood campus of the school, which was founded in 1876 as America's first research university.

BIG has designed The Village student centre for Johns Hopkins University

It will comprise a cluster of flat-roofed, timber volumes that will host a range of activities like relaxation, performing arts and dining, all stacked along a sloped site. These will also open to the outdoors to complete the arrangement BIG likens to a village.

"We have attempted to imagine and design the Campus Center like a village condensed from a plethora of different spaces and pavilions for the greatest possible diversity of activities, interests and sub-cultures," said BIG founder Bjarke Ingels.

Likened to a village, it will comprise a mix of indoor and outdoor facilities

The Village will be built at the intersection of 33rd Street and Charles Street, which runs through Baltimore and cuts between the school campus and Charles Village neighbourhood where 3,500 students live.

With this location, it is intended to provide a new link between the school and the surrounding city and become a main hub.

There will be an events-focused outdoor space

"Often the greatest ideas and breakthroughs occur away from the desk, when minds have a chance to wander, to play, to riff with others," said BIG partner Leon Rost.

"The new Hopkins Student Center is designed to provoke the sometimes-necessary distractions that complement rigorous academic life – a place for a future generation of Salks, Curies, and Cricks to unlock their next great discovery."

The interiors are intended to be open and flexible

The volumes will be mass timber and topped with photovoltaic panels. These design choices were made to help meet the university's goals for sustainability.

While the exterior is fragmented, the inside will form open-plan, flexible layouts for facilities such as student resources and support services, lounges, a digital media centre, a performance space with seating for 200 people and a dynamic dining hall.

These will be linked to the public outdoor spaces including the entry plaza at 33rd street, a new food market and plaza to the south and an events-focused commons.

"This will be a new kind of space for us – one that is not academically focused, but entirely social by design, open to all, reserved for none, and boasting the kind of flexible spaces that invite connection and collaboration, this will be a place where athletes and actors, step teams and SGA members can gather side by side," said Johns Hopkins University president Ronald J Daniels.

Red-brick walkways inside will echo the materiality of the school campus

In order to connect the new building to the existing campus, red-brick pathways like those on the school campus will run throughout its interior.

Organised by a special advisory committee, the Hopkins Student Center involved the school's students and student affairs staff in the selection. BIG's proposal was one of four shortlisted for the project and evaluated by over 1,200 students, faculty, staff and alumni in a survey.

Large expanses of glazing will create light-filled spaces

BIG is collaborating on the project with Rockwell Group for interior design and Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates for landscape design. US firm Shepley Bulfinch will serve as Architect of Record. The project is slated for completion in 2024.

Founded by Ingels in 2005, BIG has recently completed two other academic buildings in the United States. They include a Massachusetts university building with "domino effect" copper walls and a twisted, white-brick and glass school building in Virginia.

Renderings are courtesy of BIG.

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