Buro-OS_Empire-City-in-Vietnam
北京
A super-tall skyscraper precedent featuring a distinctive cylindrical volume bisected by a massive cantilevered sky ring—useful for high-rise iconicity and vertical mixed-use design.
- What we like about this project
- The scale of the cantilevered disc projecting far beyond the circular tower footprint creates an airborne urban plaza.
Materials
- glass
- steel
- concrete
Visual identifiers
- cylindrical-tower
- cantilevered-ring-terrace
- curtain-wall
- waterfront-setting
Style tags
- futuristic
- megastructure
- contemporary-skyscraper
Visual tags
- super-tall
- high-rise
- mixed-use
- sky-terrace
- futuristic
- night-rendering
- Geometry
- Slender cylindrical tower massing featuring a prominent, wide cantilevered disc ring mid-height and stepped terracing at the base.
- Facade system
- Curtain wall glass with horizontal spandrel bands wrapping a circular floor plate.
- Structural guess
- Central concrete core with outrigger trusses supporting the massive mid-level cantilevered ring.
- Spatial scale
- Super-tall skyscraper towering over a dense urban fabric and waterfront foreground.
- Lighting
- Twilight dusk sky with internal illumination glowing through the continuous curtain wall glazing and a bright underlit ring terrace.
- Atmosphere
- Striking and luminous against the twilight dusk, projecting a futuristic and monolithic presence.
- Environmental context
- Urban waterfront setting surrounded by lower and mid-rise high-density commercial or residential towers under a twilight sky.
- Spatial experience
- The tower dominates the skyline with a distinct vertical reading, interrupted dramatically by the wide hovering disc that creates an expansive mid-air public or amenity horizon.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical continuous cylindrical banding broken abruptly by the horizontal disk of the sky terrace.
- Style reading
- Futuristic high-rise megastructure
- Program
- Mixed-use commercial and residential super-tall tower
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- glass, steel, concrete
- Visual identifiers
- cylindrical-tower, cantilevered-ring-terrace, curtain-wall, waterfront-setting
- Style tags
- futuristic, megastructure, contemporary-skyscraper
- Visual tags
- super-tall, high-rise, mixed-use, sky-terrace, futuristic, night-rendering
- Geometry
- Slender cylindrical tower massing featuring a prominent, wide cantilevered disc ring mid-height and stepped terracing at the base.
- Facade system
- Curtain wall glass with horizontal spandrel bands wrapping a circular floor plate.
- Structural guess
- Central concrete core with outrigger trusses supporting the massive mid-level cantilevered ring.
- Spatial scale
- Super-tall skyscraper towering over a dense urban fabric and waterfront foreground.
- Lighting
- Twilight dusk sky with internal illumination glowing through the continuous curtain wall glazing and a bright underlit ring terrace.
- Atmosphere
- Striking and luminous against the twilight dusk, projecting a futuristic and monolithic presence.
- Environmental context
- Urban waterfront setting surrounded by lower and mid-rise high-density commercial or residential towers under a twilight sky.
- Spatial experience
- The tower dominates the skyline with a distinct vertical reading, interrupted dramatically by the wide hovering disc that creates an expansive mid-air public or amenity horizon.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical continuous cylindrical banding broken abruptly by the horizontal disk of the sky terrace.
- Style reading
- Futuristic high-rise megastructure
- Program
- Mixed-use commercial and residential super-tall tower
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture