Featured Tall Buildings

CTBUH features seminal tall buildings as case studies. These projects, typically either recently completed or historically significant, are examples of influential tall building development, design, engineering, and/or construction. Click a project to view more information about it.

28 April 2021 | Taichung

Sky Green

Featuring greenery on all sides, the tower’s plantings include 60,000 trees and shrubs, as well as 21 creeper plants in 19 sky gardens, and 142 balconies.

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14 April 2021 | Beijing

CITIC Tower

CITIC Tower is the flagship building of Beijing’s comprehensively planned 30-hectare central business district core.

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1 April 2021 | Shanghai

Shanghai Tower

Located at the heart of Shanghai’s Lujiazui Finance and Trade Zone, Shanghai Tower is one of the most sustainably advanced tall buildings in the world.

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18 March 2021 | St. Petersburg

Lakhta Center

Lakhta Center, an 87-story office building, is currently the tallest building in Europe.

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3 March 2021 | San Pedro Garza García

Torre KOI

Torre KOI, a 65-story mixed-use building, is currently the second tallest building in Mexico.

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16 February 2021 | Dubai

Burj Royale

Burj Royale is a 58-story residential building under development in Downtown Dubai.

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21 January 2021 | New York City

Central Park Tower

Central Park Tower is the tallest building to complete in 2020 at 472 meters.

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7 January 2021 | Wuhan

Wuhan Greenland Center

Rising from its site on the Yangtze River waterfront in Wuhan, the 476-meter supertall uses a triangular floor plan that narrows along its height to provide extra stability against wind

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3 February 2020 | New York City

Langham Place

Langham Place is a luxury hotel located between Bryant Park and the Empire State Building which embodies the dynamic spirit of New York City.

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2 January 2020 | Kuala Lumpur

The Troika

The three tower complex is located on the edge of the Kuala Lumpur City Centre and features apartments, offices, shops, and restaurants.

1 August 2019 | Seoul

Amorepacific Headquarters

Best Tall Building winner in the 100-199 Meters category at the 2019 Tall + Urban Innovation Conference, Amorepacific Headquarters' atrium connects this tower to its urban context.

1 July 2019 | New York City

277 Fifth Avenue

277 Fifth Avenue's transparency, glass, and expansive views are the defining characteristics of the building, which is cantilevered over an existing five-story brownstone.

1 June 2019 | Shenzhen

Hanking Center Tower

Hanking Center Tower's pioneering offset core creates a dramatic, slender profile; the tower is the tallest offset-core building in the world.

1 April 2019 | Beirut

Beirut Terraces

Beirut Terraces is a unique 25-floor, 110-meter waterfront residential tower, located in Beirut’s Central District, the most desirable residential area in Lebanon.

1 March 2019 | Philadelphia

Comcast Technology Center

The tower features 13, three-story skygardens that bring vegetation through the height of the tower, as well as a sky bar, 269 meters above ground.

1 February 2019 | Beijing

Chaoyang Park Plaza

Chaoyang Park Plaza’s single-curved, cold-bent, dark, reflective glass imitates Shan shui landscape painting by resembling a mountain naturally rising above the ground.

1 January 2019 | Copenhagen

The Silo

Once a grain-storage silo in Copenhagen's industrial Nordhavn district, this building has found new life through an innovative project transforming it into a modern apartment complex.

1 December 2018 | Paris

Tribunal de Paris

Completed in 2017, Tribunal de Paris consists of a plinth five-to-eight-stories high, on top of which stands a tower of three superimposed parallelepipeds, creating a stepping profile.

1 November 2018 | Sydney

The EY Centre

The EY Centre’s striking timber and glass closed-cavity-façade, and its innovative smart-building technology, distinguish this 38-story office building in the Sydney skyline.

1 October 2018 | Sydney

Barangaroo South/International Towers

International Towers transformed a contaminated former wharf into a new district of Sydney, reconnecting it to the harbor and giving people back a crucial part of the city.