Dezeen’s (almost) monthly top ten: each month we present a hit parade of stories from our archive. Here are the skyscraper stories that were most popular during February:
1: In first place is a tower made of LEGO bricks. LEGO towers by Bjarke Ingels Group (above; viewed 2,098 times in February 2008).
2: 53 West 53rd Street by Jean Nouvel (above and top; viewed 1,942 times)
3: Moscow Expocenter by Zaha Hadid (viewed 1,509 times)
4: Jean Nouvel in Doha (viewed 1,429 times)
5: Scala Copenhagen by Bjarke Ingels Group (viewed 1,383 times)
6: Dynamic Architecture in Dubai (viewed 1,007 times)
7: Lilium Tower in Warsaw by Zaha Hadid (viewed 952 times)
8: Pierao XXI in Vigo by Jean Nouvel (viewed 835 times)
9: The Landmark in Beirut by Jean Nouvel (viewed 834 times)
10: Dubai Renaissance by OMA (viewed 784 times)
Just outside the top ten are Torre Bicentenario in Mexico City by OMA (viewed 736 times) and Phare in Paris by Morphosis (viewed 695 times). But despite this late showing by OMA, Jean Nouvel comes out tops in Dezeen’s tower stakes.
That’s it for now; another top ten coming in April. Probably.
See also our list of the most popular stories during our first twelve months, published in November last year; and our top ten Dezeen stories from December.
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Posted by Rose Etherington
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ARCHITECTS for PRESIDENTS!
March 29th, 2008 at 12:56 pmBjarke Ingels Group two entries… the second with some architectural merit the other child’s play…. i hope the sponsorship deal [with lego] come out of a national drive to promote danish design… my vote goes to their second scheme…
March 29th, 2008 at 1:31 pmAll I see are smooth renderings, which are made to ’sell’ the project. I wonder how these buildings will/would look like in reality.
March 29th, 2008 at 1:37 pm“Snow Pictures” ,as uttered by Paragon Architect (RSA), ” There isssnoway they gonna build it! but its a great way to win competitions”
March 29th, 2008 at 4:38 pm!! I AM LOVER OF ZAHA HADID !!
March 29th, 2008 at 7:04 pm!! 2 PROJECTS congratulations !!
5: Scala Copenhagen by Bjarke Ingels Group
my favorite of the bunch!
March 30th, 2008 at 7:49 am!! I AM LOVER OF JEAN NOUVEL !!
March 30th, 2008 at 10:19 am!! 4 PROJECTS congratulations !!
how amazing is lego??? i played with it so much growing up and it still comes out from time to time.. hope it continues to grow! great list.. i am tired of Zaha’s lines.. sorry
March 30th, 2008 at 10:01 pmOh goodness. I have a *ton* of photos from the lego show over at the Storefront for Arts and Architecture. That show was *great*! I’m glad other people got to see it also.
March 30th, 2008 at 11:19 pm…nuts…
March 31st, 2008 at 3:04 amGood job, I suppose, that the top ten is based on number of views. Otherwise………………
March 31st, 2008 at 8:45 amLove The Landmark in Beirut by Jean Nouvel… and congratilations for the Pritzker
March 31st, 2008 at 10:07 amcongratulations…sorry !!!
March 31st, 2008 at 10:10 amThose buildings look nice yet they are only “cold” renderings (as someone’s already said: to “sell”). I can’t see the real harmony with the environment and the human.
March 31st, 2008 at 10:45 amLove the LEGO tower ^^ it has the ‘alive’ sense and love its ‘typography’ yeah~~
nouvel… hadid… nouvel… hadid… nouvel. the shuffle can be endless but when do we start talking about ecology ?
this will have a skyscraping impact to the environment for sure
April 2nd, 2008 at 7:01 amToday the LPC is meeting hopefully to deny the transfer of air rights from St Thomas Church and the University Club which would allow the totally out of scale and context Nouvel Tower next to MoMA. It may be a building some like, but it does not belong on the midblock site. As designed, it is the same size if not taller than the Chrysler building. It belongs were it can be seen, near the West Side Highway or in New Jersey. It is pointless to inflict a 75+ story building in a Special PReservation subdistrict of low rise buildings and the community is fighting it. The Community board has voted twice to deny the transfer of air rights.
April 8th, 2008 at 4:43 pmgreat work ! but i couldnt but say … do they really work in real life ??
April 9th, 2008 at 7:24 amI am extremely shocked that the clergy of an institution which proclaims the ‘gospel of grace,’ to sell its soul to such a travesty as this architectural proposal. What in the name of grace, the gospel, the Trinity, or a ministry to the downtrodden, can the church team up with greedy developers and put up an extremely perverse and phallic structure? St. Thomas, which is already so wealthy, is thinking in totally market terms, in which it is virtually selling its soul. As a member of the congregation, I am ex-tremely disappointed with how it is selling its soul — like Judas, for 30 pieces of silver, and Peter, who denied Christ — for lack of trust in the living and resurrected Christ? When will the church be aligned with the economics of Jesus, and truly house the poor — instead of always catering to the rich? The economics of the project are questionable — is that the only way to get ‘free maintenance for a church?’ Also, the architecture — is perverse and phallic. There are no ethics involved in this project, and it should behoove Christ’s teachings regarding ’selling’ one’s possessions to give to the poor vs. selling one’s air-rights to cater to the rich
April 11th, 2008 at 3:53 pmover half of these projects will get built….and they will be awesome….i love oma’s thin brick…its a big fu to som’s shit in the sky…
April 22nd, 2008 at 11:00 pm