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Hyatt Regency, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, 1976 designed by Gund Partnership

The Hyatt Regency Cambridge, with its stepped massing, recalled legendary projects by architects Adolf Loos and Henri Sauvage, while utilizing red brick characteristic of Cambridge's collegiate river-side architecture. -- wikipedia

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Eastwood apartment complex, Roosevelt Island, New York, USA, 1976 designed by Josep Lluis Sert

Eastwood, the largest apartment complex on the island, and Westview were designed by noted architect Josep Lluis Sert, then dean of Harvard Graduate School of Design. Eastwood, along with Peabody Terrace (in Cambridge, Massachusetts), is a prime example of Sert's investigations into high-rise multiple-dwelling residential buildings. It achieves a remarkable level of efficiency by triple-loading corridors with duplex apartment units, such that elevators and public corridors are only needed every three floors.  -- Wikipedia

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Cascades Towers, Westferry Road, London, 1988 designed by CZWG Architects

The 20 storey, 171 apartment Cascades building on Westferry Road, for example, was built in a record 18 months.  -- LDDC

After Canary Wharf it is the best-known building on the Isle of Dogs, not least because it was criticized by the Prince of Wales and appears on the cover of his book, A Vision of Britain (1989).  The building gradually reduces in size as it gets higher and the side walls are concertinashaped on plan . All this is designed to give each flat the best orientation. The south-facing slope of the building provides a 'cascade' of sun terraces and alternating greenhouses for the penthouses, and also incorporates the fire escape under a steel-and-glass canopy. The style is deliberately nautical (as in the same architects' New Concordia Wharf, Bermondsey), with portholes, railings and 'bird's nest' balconies, all intended to convey the streamlined qualities of an ocean liner.  -- British History Online

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Macallen Building Condominiums, Boston, massachusetts, USA, 2007 designed by office dA

The Macallen Building, a 140-unit development in South Boston is one of the most progressive developments in the city, opening its doors to residents in June of 2007, it has achieved a coveted Gold-level Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification badge....The sloping 6 to 12 story Macallen Building, nestled among hip, and up and coming, condo developments near the Broadway Red Line T-Stop, including Court Square Press, Allele Boston, and the Lofts at 36 A, sets itself apart with its focus on being the eco-friendly neighbor. -- the Qube Exchange

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Roller Coaster, Île de Nantes, Nantes, France, 2008 designed by Peripheriques Architectes

The building is U-shaped around a south orientated central garden. The shape choice allows the sun to penetrate deeply in the heart of the block, and therefore offers a good apartment orientation.

The volume is cut by a series of ramps on the roof surface. Like a deployed ribbon, the volume elevates up to 9 levels, before coming down again to the 3rd floor. The highest point is in the North in order not to block the South-West orientation. -- ArchDaily

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8 House in Copenhagen, Denmark designed by Bjarke Ingels Group

....in order to provide the residential units with daylight and views of marshes and grazing lands that sit directly to the south, they raised the building’s northeast corner to 10 stories, sloping it to only one story at the diagonally opposite corner by stepping down each successive line of apartments. The result is plenty of variety in the building’s precast-concrete structural components. -- Architectural Record August 2011.

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Mercedes House: Phase 1, New York City, New York, USA, 2011 designed by TEN Arquitectos

The overall massing of the project slopes up and away from De Witt Clinton Park, starting at 86 feet along 11th Avenue and climbing up to 328 feet at the middle of the block. This height transition successfully reconciles two very dissimilar urban scales: The flat, horizontal one of the park located to the West of 11th Avenue and the vertical one of the windowless telephone switching tower to the East of the site. Securing light and air for a great majority of apartments, the double-loaded corridor shifts diagonally across the site in a unique orientation to the Manhattan grid, reducing the building’s mass adjacent to the neighboring buildings. -- ArchDaily

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Via Verde, 700 Brook Avenue, Bronx, New York, USA, 2012 designed by Dattner Architects + Grimshaw Architects

The multifunctional gardens create opportunities for active gardening, fruit and vegetable cultivation, recreation and social gathering, while also providing the benefits of storm water control and enhanced insulation. The building takes the form of a “tendril” rising from grade to the tower, enclosing the courtyard and emphasizing a relationship to the natural world. -- ArchDaily

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Housing in East Lauttasaari, Purjeentekijänkuja 1, 00210 Helsinki, Finland, 2015 designed by Arkkitehdit NRT Oy

The design uses elongated building masses, which are perpendicular to the shoreline. At the shore the buildings are low and extend on columns over the surface of the sea. Further away from the waterfront the numbers of the storeys grow incrementally. -- ArchDaily