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STATE/LAKE STATION REDESIGN, CHICAGO – SKIDMORE, OWINGS & MERRILL (SOM)
The City of Chicago, Chicago Department of Transportation, and Chicago Transit Authority have revealed preliminary designs for the city’s elevated State/Lake Station and Red Line Connection, designed by SOM. The proposed station design includes a “sweeping” glass canopy,” plus a new accessible “flyover connection bridge” and lifts to platforms, and “public realm enhancements” at street level. The glass canopy has a bird-friendly fritted pattern and will provide shading in the summer and protection from harsh Chicago winds in the winter, while allowing ample daylight into the station. The transparency and lightness of the structure “draws upon Chicago’s history of structural innovation, from bascule bridges and early skyscrapers,” said the architects.
LAKHTA CENTER II, ST PETERSBURG KETTLE COLLECTIVE
Plans to build one of the world’s tallest buildings have been announced by Scottish architect, Kettle Collective. Submitted by client Russian gas supplier Gazprom, the designs for Lakhta Center II in St Petersburg would make it the second highest skyscraper in the world at 703 metres, behind Dubai’s 828 metre Burj Khalifa. The Lakhta tower will be located on the outskirts of St Petersburg and will stand alongside Europe’s current tallest building, Gazprom’s 462 metre Lakhta Centre. Kettle’s design for Lakhta tower contains around 220,000 m2
of accommodation over 150 floors. The top floor will be at
approximately 590 metres, making it the highest occupied floor and viewing gallery in the world. A “vertical urban environment,” it will be made up of eight segments of 16 floors with triple height atrium space levels and shared public facilities. Each section will include amenities and green space to cater for residents and visitors. The tower, which has been designed to complement the original tower, will house “pioneering multi-car lifts,” powered by regenerating energy from the lift movement. It will include “requirements universally recognised as essential for the office of the future, accommodation and relaxation spaces fulfilling the ‘live, work, and play’ needed in a 21st century business centre,” said the architects. Tony Kettle of Kettle Collective commented: “The new Lakhta Center will be a template of sustainable design for global high-rise projects. It will have the best-in-class low energy design and a mix of uses that will create a vertical atrium space with a vibrant centre as the heart for this new business district.”
RIVERFRONT JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA SWA
International landscape architecture, planning, and urban design firm SWA Group have announced their design of the public outdoor spaces for Riverfront Jacksonville, a $1.1bn, mixed-use master plan created by SouthEast Development Group. The vision for the public- private partnership will “transform the north bank of downtown,” adding a cumulative 2.3 million ft2 of new mixed-use programmes, connected by 15 acres of public parks and plazas along the river. An outdoor amphitheatre “anchors” one end of the park design, with a “ribbon-like teak canopy lending shade and visual interest.” Open areas will be “accented with undulating pathways and the re-emergence of the ribbon overhead.”
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