Protected by a city law limiting new buildings higher than 400m, this project will dominate the skyline of Chongqing for the next 10 years, measuring 431m high. Its location on the most elevated city site further accentuates the tower’s built form and scale in the city.

The stacked form of the skyscraper creates an iconic architectural form with a mixed use function. The building’s top section will house the Ritz-Carlton hotel with 280 rooms, with high end apartments in the mid-section and offices in the lower section, over a ballroom and retail podium of 10 levels, with basement... >>>

The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library in Washington, D.C. is housed in a 37,000 sq m landmark building that originally opened in 1972. It is the only library designed by modern master Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.

Mecanoo, together with local partner Martinez+Johnson Architecture will transform the main entrance and the two adjacent cores into focal points by making them more transparent, and by designing new spacious... >>>