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Hekla Tower, France


The French architect and winner of the 2008 Pritzker Prize Jean Nouvel has designed a 220-meter-high tower in Paris’ major business district, La Défense. The 80,000m² Hekla Tower offers a dual-level lobby, six underground floors, five dining areas, a 250-seat auditorium, and innovative office spaces to accommodate 5,800 employees. Hekla will become an entirely new space like no other upon completion in 2022, and it will also offer the…

ICD Brookfield Place, Dubai


ICD Brookfield Place, designed by Foster + Partners, is located on a 4-acre site in Dubai. The mixed-use development consists of 54 story Tower containing over 83,600 m² of office space, 7 levels below ground capable of accommodating 2,700 vehicles, adjacent Podium level structures containing five-story, 14,000 m² retail centers and a 1,670 m² triangular-shaped five-story high open atrium roof structure called Summer Garden. The design establishes a diagonal route…

Quay Quarter Tower, Australia


3XN along with local partner BVN and Arup designed the 200-meter-high and 49-storey tall Quay Quarter Tower located close to the Sydney Opera House. The design incorporates 2/3 of the structure of an existing building located on the site. In an act of radical sustainability, it will incorporate the majority of the existing structure, adding four new elevator shafts to the core. Given the solar envelope and other contextual…

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