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October 25, 2016
The British Museum (British Museum) is a museum in the city of London, United Kingdom. Its collections cover diverse fields of human knowledge, such as history, archaeology, ethnography and art.
The museum was one of the first institutions of its kind in Europe. It guards more than seven million objects from all continents, many of which are stored for study and restoration, or kept due to lack of space to display them. It also has the largest reading room in the British Library, a library that, although it now has its own headquarters, was also part of the museum until 1973, as was the Natural History Museum in London, which changed its headquarters in the year 1963.
The Ancient Egypt section is the most important in the world after that of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. Entry to the museum and many of the services it offers – such as the reading room – are free of charge, with the exception of some temporary exhibitions.
October 25, 2016
CTF Finance Center is a skyscraper under construction in Guangzhou, China. It will be the second of two skyscrapers overlooking the Pearl River in Guangzhou. Its final height will be 530 meters (1,740 ft), with 111 floors. It is expected to be completed in 2016. The 398,000 m2 mixed-use Chow Tai Fook Center is located across the Guangzhou International Finance Center tower in Guangzhou's Tianhe district.
It is linked to the public railway via subway connections at basement levels and to nearby buildings via a second level network of pedestrian bridges. The building will be 530 meters high.
The tower houses 208,720 m2 of offices, 74,260 m2 of residential, and 45,924 m2 of the hotel program.
The design of the Chow Tai Fook Center tower is derived from its multiple uses, but also from the nearby Guangzhou International Finance Center and Canton Television Tower. The overall effect of the tower, which stands in the southwest corner, is a crystalline shape ascending to the sky.
October 25, 2016
The city of Bordeaux in France will host the world's tallest timber-framed tower. Named Hyperion, the CLT cross-laminated timber building will be built by the group Eiffage, Woodeum, 3F and the architecture studio Jean-Paul Viguier & Associés.
In March 2016, the mayor of Bordeaux announced that there will be not one but two 50-meter wooden towers for this project: Hypérion by Eiffage y Silva de Kaufman & Broad. The two towers Silva and Hypérion will be located on each side of the tramway line.
The Hypérion tower will have 82 homes, offices and commercial areas and will reach a height of 57 meters, with 18 levels and a total area of 17,000 m² (of which 4,000 m² of offices and 500 m² of shops) in the heart of Bordeaux . The budget for this project is €51 million.
Wood, the main material of this tower, will occupy a large surface area of the building, except on the façade in order to protect the material from the elements. The parking lots will be on the first level and will be invisible since they are part of the construction.