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COVER STORY Global offERInGS that is wont to oppose the move on the grounds that the city does RoTWEIl not have the necessary infrastructure and amenities to cope with TallesT elevaTor TesT ToWer such vertical growth. A unique elevator test tower is being constructed in Rottweil, Germany by ThyssenKrupp Elevator. Barely less than ten months PAN INDIA PUSH of construction the company has held a topping out ceremony with It is not just Maximum City, the frst home of Indian tall the concrete tube of the tower reaching its full height of 232 meters, buildings, that is looking at structures which will challenge the which is the level of the proposed viewing platform thanks to an skies. innovative slipforming technique.. It is reported in the coming days Tere are world-class swanky high rises coming up all across India the final structures will be added on top before interior work starts on in places like New Delhi, Gurgaon, Noida, Ahmedabad, Pune, the tower, the tallest in Baden-Württemberg. The structure is slated Vijayawada, Hyderabad, Kolkata and Bengaluru courtesy frms to be completed and go into operation at the end of 2016. The last like DB Realty, Omkar, Shreepati Group, Marathon, Kalpataru, piece of construction, bringing the tower to its final height of 246 Oberoi, Mantri, Raheja, Parsvanath, DLF, Ramprastha, 3C, meters, will then follow with completion of the façade. Among the Emaar MGF and the Wave Group ofering top class amenities to technologies of the future that will be tested in Rottweil is the new the occupants ranging from fve-star spa to concierge and butler MULTI system, powered by maglev technology, which was unveiled services. at the end of 2014 and is currently in the prototype phase In Kolkata, for instance, a consortium of four builders, led by the Mani Group, is working to construct eastern India tallest residential tower – a 62-story skyscraper called ‘Te 42’ on the city’s Chowringhee Road which will be completed by 2017. Te project has the Hafeez Contractor stamp to it. Says Sanjay Jhunjhunwala, Chief Executive Ofcer, Mani Group, “In metro cities, space will be always at a premium. With many cities now running out of land for development, tall buildings are becoming an increasingly attractive and necessary built form. Building tall, that is what more and more cities are now gearing up for. Nationally, the goal of transforming cities into more dense, compact and sustainable places is making them consider growing fRanKfURT upwards rather than outwards. In our assessment, there will building WiTh shifTing floor plaTes remain good demand for well planned and well built high rise In a project described both as classical and sculptural the buildings marketed at the right price.” Copenhagen- and New York-based Bjarke Ingels Group has won a It is not just the City of Joy that is fnding real estate respite via the competition to design a 185-meter ‘mixed’ skyscraper in Frankfurt's aerial route. Even in relatively small city Vijayawada, a local real downtown financial district. The building to be put together in estate developer Pooja Crafed Homes has engaged architecture partnership with Austrian engineering firm Bollinger + Grohmann studio Penda from Beijing to devise Vijayawada Garden Estate, a has been conceived as a simple rectilinear form with two sculptural high rise tower which will feature modular elements with which interventions incorporating all the elements of a real city with spaces residents can customise the appearance of the building with for living and working, inside as well as outside. It is reported floor hanging gardens and balcony details. plates will be shifted at both the base and the center of the tower to There are tremendous opportunities across India for EPC mark clear boundaries between the building's different functions, with contractors, green and sustainability specialists, suppliers of sections dedicated to apartments, offices, and public uses. While building materials, landscaping artists, elevator manufacturers the office floors will be housed in the upper levels of the 65,000- and consultants, climate control specialists, infrastructure frms, square-meter tower, residential floors will be in the middle, where high rise consultants, project managers and engineers – not to the shifted floor plates will create generous space for terraces. The mention global architects and designers. Names like Armani/ base of the structure will open out onto a new public square creating Casa, Trump, Philippe Starck, Jade Jagger, Kelly Hoppen, Greg a striking new silhouette on Frankfurt's skyline. Norman and Pei Cobb Freed are becoming familiar across the Indian real estate landscape. Early this month the Beirut based Arabian Construction Company (ACC) won a $78.5 million contract in Gurgaon to build phase one of the Supertech Hues project. Te project is a cluster of luxury residential towers being built in the Gurgaon area. Tis follows a $125 million contract it had won from Supertech in nearby Noida, where it is building an 80-story, 300-meter tower named Spira which is the centerpiece of the Supernova project. Te company is also building three towers 14 construction opportunities|sEPTEMBER 2015