Torres de Hércules. Photo taken from Skyscrapercity forums.

The building height is 126 meters and has 20 floors. The last floor is 80 meters high, and above that there is a lookout restaurant. Both white towers are rising from the flat pillar of water, because the building is close to Bay of Algeciras and main highways from Seville to Gibraltar and also the Costa del Sol or Jerez de la Frontera airport. There is also parking with 200-lot space for cars based on the ground level. Some small commercial spaces are also provided with travel agency, a bank, messenger service or coffee shop.

Torres de Hércules. Photo taken from Skyscrapercity forums.

The construction covers area of 19.600 sq meters and is prepared to serve as an office building. Being close to Cadiz and Gibraltar makes this building not only a landmark, but also well-placed highrise that could manage to get some money from office rental. Still, above last floor restaurant there is roof-top with panoramic view to beautiful neighborhood.

Torres de Hércules. Photo taken from Skyscrapercity forums.

Torres de Hércules. Photo taken from Skyscrapercity forums.

Here are some renders of this proposed skyscraper:

Miami Supertall - Miapolis 1. Photo taken from Skyscrapercity forums.

Miami Supertall - Miapolis 2. Photo taken from Skyscrapercity forums.

Miami Supertall - Miapolis 3. Photo taken from Skyscrapercity forums.

Miami Supertall - Miapolis 4. Photo taken from Skyscrapercity forums.

Cuatro Torres Business Area. Photo taken from Skyscrapercity forums.

Cuatro Torres Business Area means: the Four Towers Business Area. This complex is placed in Madrid, Spain. It is one of the examples how to build some interesting buildings that are high, elegant and sophisticated. Cuatro Torres Business Area consist four high towers: Torre Espacio (57 floors, 226 meters high, 774 feet), Torre Caja Madrid (45 floors, 250 m, 820 ft), Torre de Cristal (52 floors, 249,5 m, 818 ft) and Torre Sacyr Vallehermoso (52 floors, 236 m, 774 ft).

Every tower has its own original design and architecture.

Cuatro Torres Business Area. Photo taken from Skyscrapercity forums.

Torre Espacio was topped out on March 19, 2007 and is surpassed by Gran Hotel Bali.

Cuatro Torres Business Area. Photo taken from Skyscrapercity forums.

Torre Caja Madrid is the tallest of the four buildings, and designed by Norman Foster.

Cuatro Torres Business Area. Photo taken from Skyscrapercity forums.

Torre de Cristal is designed by Cesar Pelli and filled with offices.

Torre Sacyr Vallehermoso was completed in 2008 and designed by Carlos Rubio Carvajal and Enrique Álvarez-Sala Walter.

Cuatro Torres Business Area. Photo taken from Skyscrapercity forums.

La Courneuve, the surroundings of Paris. Taken from Skyscrapercity forums.

The Rockets, Zagreb:

The Rockets, Zagreb. Taken from Skyscrapercity forums.

Westin Hotel, New York:

Westin Hotel, New York. Taken from Skyscrapercity forums.

Residential building Gloria, Bratislava:

Gloria, Bratislava. Taken from Skyscrapercity forums.

Residential block, Moscow:

Residential block, Moscow. Taken from Skyscrapercity forums.

The house of soviets, Kaliningrad:

Chicago Spire construction site, August 27 2009. Photo taken from Skyscrapercity forums.

The tower will contain 150 floors, 1193 apartments, every floor will rotate at 2.44 degrees between floor plates, the lobby footprint will be 1,414 sq meters (15,220 sq ft). The building will have the highest elevator run (about 570 meters, 1864 feet) – this elevators will move directly from the ground floor to any floor in the building, there will be 17 of them.

Chicago Spire inside. Image taken from Skyscrapercity forums.

Chicago Spire inside. Image taken from Skyscrapercity forums.

Cost of an apartment in Chicago Spire will start from 750.000 dollars and end at 40.000.000 dollars.

The building looks similar to rotating towers in Dubai and Moscow, but the construction is a little bit different and the outside look of the building is more static leaving observers with only one look of the building. The facade is not so dynamic and it is not changing shapes.

Chicago Spire. Image taken from Skyscrapercity forums.

Chicago Spire. Image taken from Skyscrapercity forums.

Rotating skyscraper. Photo taken from www.dynamicarchitecture.net. Copyrights by David Fisher.

Of course this is only a project but interesting enough to write about it. This can be a start of new wave of moving buildings that will have changing architecture.  The plan predict that this building will have 70 floors and 400 meters high (that is 1312 feet). Potential cost of that building is estimated at 400 million dollars. At first the building construction should start in late 2008 and be finished in 2010, yet, during the financial problems it has not started yet.

Rotating skyscraper. Photo taken from www.dynamicarchitecture.net. Copyrights by David Fisher.

This could be one of the most interesting buildings in the world as long as there will be only few of them. This can really be some kind of architectural revolution that will show us totally new ways of projecting, planning and building skyscrapers.

Rotating skyscraper. Photo taken from www.dynamicarchitecture.net. Copyrights by David Fisher.

Nakheel Tower. Image taken from Skyscrapercity forums.

Nakheel Tower. Image taken from Skyscrapercity forums.

The Nakheel Tower will allow more than 55 thousand people to live there and another 45 thousand will get job while building the complex. The tower will contain 10.000 parking spaces, and the whole complex more than 950.000 sq meters of commerce space and retail, more than 19.000 residential apartments, more than 3500 hotel rooms (with exclusive 100 room hotel inside Nakheel Tower).

Nakheel Tower. Image taken from Skyscrapercity forums.

Nakheel Tower. Image taken from Skyscrapercity forums.

The investment is currently on hold and predicted start is set to early 2010.

Construction site in mid 2009. Photo taken from Skyscrapercity forums.

Plans of creating financial district in Shanghai were announced in 1993 and included plans of three huge supertalls. Two of them are already standing (Jin Mao building – finished in 1998 and Shanghai World Financial Center – finished in 2008).

Shanghai Tower finally approved project in surroundings of other Shanghai supertalls. Image taken from Skyscrapercity forums.

After years of proposals government chosen design from Gensler. This very innovative construction spins and twists around the central core surrounded by a curtain of glass. The project is based on nine cylindrical cores sticked to each other and rising in twisted shape. This design is supposed to reduce the wind pressure on the whole construction (wind loads will be reduced by 24%). Used materials and unique shape will highly reduce the energy consumption.

Another view of futuristic Shanghai Tower. Image taken from Skyscrapercity forums.

The construction is not only innovative but beautiful. Surely this will be one of the most impressive supertalls ever rised. The facade is changing in all directions showing China’s connection to the world, time and space. There will be six sky gardens in building’s parameter. The exterior and interior skin of the building will be transparent. There will be also places for atrium and inside civic squares which makes building open to the world and giving people a lot of public space.

Aqua, Chicago. Photo taken from Skyscrapercity forums.

The building will consist eight-floor base with wide terrace with gardens, pools, hot tubs, gazebos, fire pit and running track. The building has balconies stretched up to 3,7 meters (12 ft) what gives the irregular shape and makes facade an undulating. This solution is very simple and effective, especially when looking from the ground level. Looking on the building from far away makes the irregular shape almost invisible. That is the only flaw that could be seen here, but the whole idea and construction itself are outstanding.

Aqua, Chicago. Photo taken from Skyscrapercity forums.

Finishing the building is scheduled on 2010. Aqua will be filled with 474 rental units filling 33 stores. Fairmont Hotel was supposed to rent 15 floors from the buildings space, but in Augus 2008 worth 84 million $ conctract was terminated, compared to economical environment changes.

Aqua, Chicago. Photo taken from Skyscrapercity forums.

Aqua, Chicago. Photo taken from Skyscrapercity forums.

This is my first post and I’m gonna start from the highest construction in the world. Burj Dubai is one huge skyscraper with height of 818 meters (2,684 ft) and 162 floors. The construction started on late 2004 and it is almost finished. By January 17 this year, workers reached the top. Interesting thing is that Burj Dubai has the biggest elevator installation and the fastest elevators in the world rising at speed of 60 km/h (55 ft/s).

The building was designed by SOM (Skidmore, Owings and Merrill) who are known from many other constructions (including the latest project of WTC1). Building is supposed to have similar look to the flower Hymenocallis. It contains a central core and three elements around. Burj Dubai is also famous from enormous exterior cladding which is around 142,000 quadrat meters (that is 1,528,000 sq ft).

Detail of Burj Dubai, image taken from Skyscrapercity forums.

The building is supposed to have a mixed use with Armani Hotel containing 37 floors, private apartments from 45 to 108 floor and offices. 78 floor will contain a swimming pool. The building will also contain 26 terraces.

Planned opening is set on December 2, 2009.

This amazing construction will be the highest building made by human being for many years. But there are some concept projects including even two miles high self-sufficient cities, but this is a case of future. There are still no materials that could be used tu build such monster. Burj Dubai become one of the most recognizable landmarks years before the counstruction completed.

Burj Dubai 2009, image taken from Skyscrapercity forums.

Dubai seems to be unique place for such constructions. The place that twenty years ago was mainly desert now becomes the new definition of highest and the most amazing buildings in the world. Still, the amount of highrises in Dubai is not that big, but the place is slowly taking the fame from New York’s Manhattan. Dubai constructions are more diversed and, what is the most important – higher. New WTC1 (also known as the Freedom Tower) will rise up to about 541 meters (1776 ft), which is impressing but that high. Many skyscrapers that are being built right now will be higher Tokyo Sky Tree, The Pentominium, Shanghai Tower or China 117 Tower.