The Research & Thought Leadership division of the CTBUH performs objective research at all scales and distributes findings in the form of data studies that highlight critical issues facing tall buildings and future cities.
2 June 2025 | Tall Buildings in Numbers
Amsterdam is a global leader in sustainable urbanism, known for its human-scale planning, cycling infrastructure, and adaptive reuse of historic structures. While traditionally low-rise, the city is now exploring vertical expansion in select nodes to meet growing housing needs while preserving livability. Rotterdam is one of the Netherlands’ mos...
16 October 2023 | CTBUH Journal 2022 Issue III
Over the past two centuries, Singapore’s land area has expanded by 25 percent, reaching 738 square kilometers in 2022. Land reclamation has its limits and, to accommodate its grow...
16 October 2023 | CTBUH Journal 2023 Issue III
Over the past two centuries, Singapore’s land area has expanded by 25 percent, reaching 738 square kilometers in 2022. Land reclamation has its limits and, to accommodate its growi...
16 October 2023 | CTBUH Journal 2022 Issue IV
This interactive data study builds off the work conducted by the Université de Montréal, supported by the 2019 CTBUH Student Research Competition, kindly sponsored by Taipei Financ...
4 October 2023 | CTBUH Data Handbook 2023
This is the inaugural edition of the CTBUH Data Handbook, an annual publication that covers the state of tall building construction and the affiliated growth of the world’s cities....
5 July 2023 | CTBUH Journal 2023 Issue II
As a companion to CTBUH’s The World’s 118 Tallest Buildings, and in recognition of the 2023 completion of Merdeka 118, the world’s second-tallest building, in Kuala Lumpur, this st...
16 May 2023 | CTBUH Journal 2023 Issue I
This report shows that 147 buildings of 200 meters’ height or greater were completed in 2022, a 25 percent increase from 2021, when 118 such buildings were completed. Disruptions t...
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