High-rise Construction
A view of London with approved tall building proposals outlined in red. Image credit: ©Visualhouse and photographer Dan Lowe
More than 100 tall buildings have been added to the plans for the capital city since this time la...
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Seattle. Photo: sama093/Creative Commons.
Research at an advanced stage.
Image: WestonWilliamson+Partners, via Dezeen. (Click here to enlarge)
The towers will connect between the 21st and 25th floors. The entire complex will sit above a hig...
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Renderings courtesy Vasily Klyukin (click here for larger view).
The skyscraper, which can change colors and would house a nightclub in its "mouth," is the latest...
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Renderings courtesy HOK/Greenland Group
Recently approved for development, the 67-story building will have more than 900 units.
Image courtesy OUE Skyspace LA
The glass slide, part of a $50 million renovation project, will stretch 45 feet along the exterio...
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Wangjing SOHO, Beijing. Photo courtesy Zaha Hadid Architects via CTBUH
The award program’s first year honored projects, designers, and builders stretched across six dis...
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Rendering courtesy Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates
The tower would be the centerpiece of Next Tokyo, a mini city in Tokyo Bay adapted to climate cha...
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Renderings courtesy SHoP Architects
Developers plan to incorporate a landmark bank into the tower's footprint.
Rendering Courtesy of Tegmark
Coming in at just under ‘megatall’ status, the 595-meter Nexus Building forgoes the central core...
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Renderings courtesy Tishman Speyer
The Spiral will be a 65-story tower with a half-mile’s worth of green space wrapped around its ex...
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A 230,000-sm factory in China’s Hunan province spent several months producing modules for the 57-story J57 Mini Sky City tower, in Changsha. Using advanced prefabrication techniques, China-based contractor Broad Sustainable Building erected the tower in less than three weeks. Photos courtesy Broad Sustainable Building
A prefab construction company in China built a 57-story tower in 19 days. Here’s how they did it....
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Renderings: Bjarke Ingels Group
The twisty, asymmetrical condo complexes will have office space instead of a hotel.
Rendering: Millerhare
The five million-sf project includes two office towers, a residential tower, retail space, and a...
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432 Park Avenue under construction in New York City. Photo: Kohei Kanno via Wikimedia Commons
That makes it an even 100. With the completion of 432 Park Avenue in New York City, the number of...
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Renderings courtesy ZHA
The Casa Atlantica is planned for Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Renderings courtesy Renzo Piano Building Workshop
The 25-story tower is a residential building with 115 apartments and plenty of amenities.
Shanghai Tower in China, which took six years to complete, includes 121 above-ground floors, and 50,000 ft or ground-level and underground retail space. Photo Courtesy Wikimedia Commons.
Shanghai Tower makes up a trio of supertall buildings in that city’s commercial district.
Rendering courtesy Zaha Hadid Architects (via ArchDaily)
The structure is supported by sets of curved columns that taper to four different base heights....
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Bosco Verticale was named CTBUH 2015 Best Tall Building Worldwide. Photo: Luca Nebuloni via Wikimedia Commons
A crowdfunded skyscraper in Colombia and Jerusalem’s wild, pyramid-shaped tower are among the lan...
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At 314 meters, the pixilated MahaNakhon tower, designed by Buro Ole Scheeren, will be the tallest building in Bangkok and Thailand. Rendering courtesy Buro Ole Scheeren
Jetpack-based firefighting, pixelated towers, and high-rise rentals are among the innovations and...
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Photo: Roger/Creative Commons.
City has few skyscrapers adorned with lit company names, logos.
New York City's 41 West 57th Street. Renderings: Mark Foster Gage Architects
The 102-story tower, 41 West 57th Street, will have glass walls, balconies, and a carved stone fa...
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Renderings couresty DBOX, Eric Parry Architects
At more than 1,000 feet, 1 Undershaft will rival The Shard in height.
All renderings courtesy Jeddah Economic Company and Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture
The tower will overtake the Burj Khalifa in terms of height, but how long will it remain king?...
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The ODA Architecture-designed tower at 303-305 E. 44th Street in New York City will be only 47 feet wide. Renderings courtesy ODA
One project slated to begin construction next spring is designed to be only 47 feet wide.
A rendering of 22 Bishopsgate standing near Richard Rogers' Leadenhall Building (The Cheesegrater) and Norman Foster's 30 St. Mary Axe (The Gherkin). Renderings courtesy PLP Architecture
Scheduled to start construction next year and open in 2019, the structure will be London’s second...
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One of the residential towers as seen from Via Gaetano de Castillia on Google Maps
Designed by Italian architect Stefano Boeri, the building design was applauded for its “extraordi...
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Renderings courtesy City Realty (via Inhabitat)
When completed, the 90-story tower will be the tallest building in the outer boroughs of New York...
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Photo: Anthony Quintano/Creative Commons.
CTBUH reports that luxury residential construction, slenderness aspect ratios, and construction i...
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