High-rise Construction
The Tower at PNC Plaza in Pittsburgh achieves the client’s sustainable business objectives. And its execution required a degree of testing and modeling by the Building Team that’s unusual for most U.S. office buildings. Photo: Connie Zhou/Michael Ash Partners. Click here to enlarge.
The Building Team designed the 800,000-sf tower to use 50% less energy than a comparable building...
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The ground floors of Oceanwide Center's two towers will be lifted up five stories to create an “urban room” with pedestrian crossings. Image: Foster + Partners
One of Oceanwide Center’s buildings will be the city’s second tallest.
A 24-story building with 241 affordable housing units will include a charter school, medical center, cultural spaces, and a supermarket. Image: Dattner Architects
The 24-story curved building would be 70% more efficient than comparable housing in New York City...
Vista Tower. Renderings courtesy Studio Gang.
The 1,186-foot tower will be the third-tallest building in the city.
Rendering courtesy Anders Berensson Architects
The structure, which will be made entirely out of cross-laminated timber, will rise 436 feet into...
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Renderings courtesy bKL Architecture. Click here to enlarge.
The mixed-use H700 Shenzhen Tower will have sky gardens, angled recesses, and an attached plaza....
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The latest addition to Atlanta's Tech Square innovation center is Coda, a 1-million-sf mixed-use complex that is designed for collaboration between researchers and the private sector, and will include retail space activated by an outdoor plaza. Image: John Portman & Associates
A much anticipated, Portman-developed tower project will include collaborative office spaces, a d...
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Renderings courtesy Ingenhoven Architects. Click here to enlarge image.
The Toranomon District will add a business and a residential high-rise, both of which feature gre...
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Renderings courtesy OMA. Click here to enlarge.
The goal is for the Toranomon Hills Station Tower to transform its neighborhood and serve as a hu...
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The tower of Dubai Creek Harbour, designed by Santiago Calatrava. Renderings courtesy Santiago Calatrava. Click here to enlarge picture.
The slender structure will have 10 observation platforms, two Hanging Gardens decks, and a illumi...
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Photo Credit: Jorge Figueroa, flickr Creative Commons
The mixed reality headset will allow people to take a holographic tour of the building while keep...
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Screenshot of the Downtown Miami Interactive 3-D Skyline Map, which depicts what the city's skyline could look like after all of the planned, proposed, and under construction projects are finished.
The Downtown Miami Interactive 3-D Skyline Map lets users see the status of every downtown office...
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Rendering © Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP
The hat truss-supported office tower was topped off in January, rising 25 stories above the Salt...
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The 1975 novel was first published when the Barbican Centre towers were being built in London. Photo: Riodamascus, Wikimedia Commons
The story, which was originally thought to be a critique of London’s city planning, takes place i...
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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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Section of the private residential gardens (click to view expanded version). Renderings, illustrations courtesy CallisonRTKL
Matthias Olt, Associate Vice President at CallisonRTKL, discusses new ways to improve individual...
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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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