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The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company Headquarters (ADNOC) and Capital Market Authority (CMA) Tower secured two of the top 10 spots for skyscrapers scheduled to open in 2015.“With the number of officially ‘tall’ buildings — at least 656 feet — doubling over the next 10 years, and the number of ‘megatall’ buildings — at least 1,969 feet — expected to jump from two to 10 by 2020, building construction ...

HOK Tall Buildings features conceptual designs, projects under construction and built high-rises worldwide.As HOK’s design board notes in the book’s preface: “Tall buildings give form to human aspiration. For the past two centuries, they have served as powerful expressions of our creativity, knowledge and will. As people around the world gravitate toward urban cores, how will our big cities contin...

   “Competition among airlines is increasingly waged on the ground, especially in the Persian Gulf, where fast-growing airlines have been driving construction of airports that are creating new expectations for travelers.”“The hope is to drive economic development by drawing traffic. Business travelers may spend hours at airports to eat, work, meet, sleep and even shower. For vacationers, the airpo...

 Five designers from HOK’s Los Angeles office – Jessica Ginther, Frank Cauthen, Jamila Valero, Zach Capehart and Kris Surichamorn – competed in the firm-wide Net Zero Design Competition as the team “soLAr.”The net-zero competition challenged HOK’s teams to create a conceptual net-zero energy design for a building on a site in their local communities. Teams were required to use HOK’s Sustainable An...