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.
4 February 2025 | Tall Buildings in Numbers
After 2023 set a new tall building record with 184 completions, 2024 saw a steep 33.2 percent drop-off, with 123 buildings of 200 meters or greater in height completing.
12 January 2021 | CTBUH Journal 2021 Issue I
The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat has released its annual report, CTBUH Year in Review: Tall Trends of 2020, part of the Tall Buildings in Numbers data analysis serie...
23 September 2020 | CTBUH Journal 2020 Issue IV
This data study proposes a “generic” 200-meter office building, located in Chicago, displaying several key modifications that could take place if certain indicative public-health r...
1 August 2020 | CTBUH Journal 2020 Issue III
Linking tall buildings with horizontal spaces, whether purely for circulation or containing programming, has been a subject of fascination for as long as tall buildings have existe...
20 March 2020 | CTBUH Journal 2020 Issue II
This research paper undertakes a review of the 2012 report by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, “Tallest 20 in 2020: Entering the Era of the Megatall,” assessing the...
12 December 2019 | CTBUH Journal 2020 Issue I
The year 2019 was remarkable for the tall building industry, with 26 supertall buildings (300 meters or taller) completed, the most in any year. This is the second consecutive year...
11 October 2019 | CTBUH Journal 2019 Issue IV
The default image of the skyscraper for the past 50 years in the public imagination has likely been the extruded, rectilinear corporate “box,” derived from the postwar model of min...
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