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.
1 February 2024 | Tall Buildings in Numbers
With sea levels on the rise, prevailing thought suggests such investment should not occur in South Florida. However, the City of Miami could very well be the best place for tall new building construction within this region. Aside from the advantages of building upon an already established city center with infrastructure already in place, a natural...
23 September 2012 | CTBUH Journal, 2012 Issue III
With over 1.3 billion citizens and a rapidly urbanizing population, China is developing tall buildings more than any other country globally. Currently it has 239 buildings 200 mete...
1 June 2012 | CTBUH Journal, 2012 Issue II
With the recent completion of two megatall telecommunication/observation towers it is perhaps time to review these structures and also explain why they are distinguished from buil...
31 December 2011 | CTBUH Journal, 2012 Issue I
The annual story is becoming a familiar one: 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, and now 2011 have each sequentially broke the record for the most 200 meter or higher buildings completed in a...
1 November 2011 | CTBUH Journal, 2011 Issue IV
As of the year 2000, there were only 9 buildings 150 meters or taller in all of South Korea. Just twelve years later, there are now 124 buildings 150+ meters in height completed, w...
1 August 2011 | CTBUH Journal, 2011 Issue III
New York’s dramatic skyline, over a century in the making, has for years been the envy of cities around the world. From the very birth of the tall building typology, New York has b...
13 April 2011 | CTBUH Journal, 2011 Issue II
Tall buildings are spreading across the globe at an ever-increasing rate. This study demonstrates the relationship between population and tall buildings across those countries and...
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