Zaha Hadid Architects’ Taipei skyscraper resembles flowering orchid

A team comprising China’s C.Y. Lee & Partners and UK-headquartered Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) has won a design competition for the 47-floor National Innovation, Creativity and Finance Center (NICFC) in… The post Zaha Hadid Architects’ Taipei skyscraper resembles flowering orchid appeared first on Global Construction Review.

Zaha Hadid unveils designs for 47-storey Taipei tower

Building inspired by the fluting structure of a native species of orchid

Free Documentary - Megastructures - World's Most Unique Garden, Gardens by the Bay, 10012021

Gardens by the Bay is a mega structure: Three massive gardens – the size of 177 football pitches – will house thousands of plants from all over the planet. Two giant conservatories are to be constructed to protect millions of dollars’ worth of trees, flowers and plants and manmade vertical gardens called Supertrees will stretch as high as 50 metres in to the sky. This is the country’s most ambitious greening project to date and no one has ever attempted such designs before