Sunday, March 24, 2013

Formwork

Steel Construction

Composite floor


Saturday, December 13, 2008

The Petronas Twin Towers

The Petronas Twin Towers (also known as the Petronas Towers or Twin Towers), in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia are the world's tallest twin buildings.

These towers, which were designed by Cesar Pelli, an Argentine-American architect.

The 120-meter foundations were built by Bachy Soletanche. Hazama Corporation built tower I. Samsung Constructions (the Construction Division of Samsung Corporation), Kukdong Engineering & Construction (both of South Korea) built tower II. The shopping mall beneath both towers was constructed by Birmingham, Alabama based Bill Harbert International.

more at : http://flickr.com/photos/51781693@N00/1671916213

Friday, October 17, 2008

Lend Lease Corporation

Lend Lease Corporation Limited is an Australian-based multinational property management and investment company. 

Bovis Lend Lease division constructs and manages large building projects including Sydney Opera House and Melbourne Park.

read more in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lend_Lease_Corporation.

Thursday, April 3, 2008

Dubai architecture

Jean Nouvel is designing an opera house for Dubai and a branch of the Louvre next door in Abu Dhabi; the Oslo firm Snohetta has designed a “gateway”; Zaha Hadid is building a skyscraper and a massive office complex, (she's doing the opera house in Abu Dhabi); in January Norman Foster revealed plans to build an eco-city for half a million people in the Persian Gulf, and, last week, designs for the Abu Dhabi World Trade centre; and, busiest of all, there's Rem Koolhaas, with office complexes galore and a his new Waterfront City, unveiled this month.read more at http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/architecture_and_design/article3620340.ece