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New Tower From Firm Behind the Burj Khalifa Named World’s Best Tall Building

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The architectural firm behind an innovative new tower complex featuring a striking “exposed hexagrid exoskeleton” wants to counter the “numbing sameness” of many new urban districts.One of the company’s latest projects, the Sany IROOTECH Headquarters in the Chinese city of Guangzhou, has just been named “Best Tall Building Worldwide” at this year’s Council on Vertical Urbanism (CVU) Awards.The tower complex was designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), the Chicago-based architectural firm behind the current world’s tallest building—the Burj Khalifa.Read More on NewsThe Sany IROOTECH Headquarters, which consists of two towers, standing 204 meters high (670 feet) and 186 meters…

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