Photo © Lv Hengzhong
Kicking off our review of 2016, architecture editor Jessica Mairs looks back at 10 skyscrapers that have bent the rules in the past year, ranging from a triangular tower in New York to a Lego-like Singapore tower and the world’s second-tallest building…
Beijing Greenland Center, China, by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
Angled glazing covering the 260-metre-tall facades of SOM’s Beijing Greenland Center refracts daylight to cast a pattern of shade across the skyscraper. The tessellating glass modules are made from two types of trapezoid—?one that tapers upwards and one that tapers downwards.