![]() The building features an underfloor air-conditioning system that increases the comfort level of people more than the conventional overhead system. A double skin facade on the southwest cools the interiors and traps energy to heat the interiors in winters. The curtain walls tailored to the exposure to the sun for different sides save energy. Meeting the Energy Use Intensity goals of 2030 challenges for architects, the building has a unique form that torques towards the top. This LEED platinum standard 605 feet tall, 38 storey building, will be one of the most energy-efficient and sustainable mixed-use buildings in the world. ![]() 505 Church Street, Nashville, Tennessee | Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Art Deco’s ornamental orchestrations will draw inspiration from the towers typical for the Gothic churches and cathedrals.Īnd eventually, we can say that within the International Style and its imposed functionalist aesthetics, the high rise finally became a free-standing tower and from being a complementary component in the structural design, the tower became the building itself.Here are a few of their notable works picked out of the ever-expanding basket of international projects. The tower is a hallmark in architectural Art Deco too, with Sullivan writing some years earlier in his essay of 1896, “The Tall Office Building Artistically Considered”, that the “new types of buildings required new architectural expression, i.e., decoration.”. This is a tendency we continue to observe in other iconic high-rise buildings – for example in the Singer building in New York by Louis Sullivan with a mansard-topped tower rising from the larger massive block below and constituting almost half of the whole construction. Richard Morris Hunt’s Tribune Building (1873–5) in New York (currently demolished) is one of the first high-rise buildings with the clock tower being a crucial component in the design. ![]() Masonry and brick became an exterior signature. Cast iron enabled buildings to go higher while reducing the size of the support columns inside. The first “ skyscrapers” became possible at the very end of the nineteenth century when the Bessemer process made steel available for columns and beams. Skyscrapers – Urban MonumentalityĪn iconic building type that is associated with the tower is the high rise that emerged at the beginning of the 20 th century with the two terms being interchangeably used up to the present day. It is not surprising that the tower became a landmark of civic architecture exactly at the height of the Industrial Revolution in Europe with the construction of the world’s most iconic free-standing tower – The Eiffel Tower, which demonstrated the full potential of the steel construction and allowed the planning of greater construction heights for decades ahead. ![]() Apart from being functional (military towers, observation towers, water towers, campaniles, telecommunication towers), these structures have always been overwhelmingly symbolic in their aspiration to rise above the surrounding habitats, thus becoming projections of societal fantasies for material progress. Viewed from a historical perspective, the tower, being part of the architectural military arsenal – is charged with the symbolism of power – it is a phallic and excessive vertical structure, striving to express supremacy rather than efficiency. The definition of the term in a strictly architectural context designates each structure or building characterized by its relatively great height in comparison to its horizontal dimensions. ![]()
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