New Skyscrapers / boxes are being stacked

It is no news that in Asia today is built on a steep, that the major projects of the architects of "starsystem" can be found in cities like Beijing, Shanghai, Dubhai, Abu Dhabi, to name a few. This should add the other great power comes, India. Moreover, the trend in the design of skyscrapers is changing from time to time. If five years ago which marked the Torre Agbar in Barcelona with the Swiss Re HQ Foster in London was its curved form, which comes with strength now is "the pile of boxes." Both in China, India and ... believe, Chile, has been the trend boxes in height.


Reviewing some projects I found two strikingly similar. The India Tower in Mumbai South, India and TEDA Landmark Towers in Tianjin, China. The two projects currently under construction are part of what might be called green buildings of the twenty-towers smart or sustainable, or just "stacked boxes."

India Tower

This mega project of 301 meters in height will be one of the most technological of the city of Mumbai. Developed by FXFowle Architects, the tower has almost all strategies "green" that requires a building for energy savings. The appearance of overlapping boxes are explained in a different program on each of the layers, area residence, hotel and shopping malls are set in a setting where the boxes are vertical turning slightly to reach 60 floors.

TEDA Towers Landamark

Formed by a group of 3 towers, designed by Atkins Design, the series of buildings is composed of bare bodies like the India Tower, a recurring find projects where the architecture that resemble one another but no matter the place or the architect is a feature of the global city to say the least. This project functions related programs offices, residences, shopping and a luxurious hotel, spread over three towers of 415, 198 and 136 meters.

Vigilant in Santiago

For now there are no drawings or pictures, or anything, but in the New Las Condes has been a project of John Sabbagh who rigorously followed the line. The building in question is part of the set up of the tower building Mistral, Matta, LAN Tower among others. This project which currently is only digging the hole visible from Avenida President Riesco, has several similarities to the Corporate Tower DUOC-UC, also Sabbagh Arquitectos, previously posted in the parks under construction, so we will continue to track Nueva Las Condes project to complete the triad.