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.

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.

1 September 2018 | New York City

56 Leonard

56 Leonard's irregularly projecting floors, as well as the irregular spacing and location of the balconies throughout its 57 stories have nicknamed the building the "Jenga".

1 August 2018 | Chicago

150 North Riverside

Utilizing a unique core-supported structure with a very small footprint at grade, the design resolves considerable site challenges and provides a 54-story Class A office tower.

2 July 2018 | New York City

American Copper Buildings

The American Copper Buildings present two bold and dynamic residential towers in New York City that are clad in copper, a living material that will patina gracefully over time.

1 June 2018 | Istanbul

Allianz Tower

The Allianz Tower is Turkey’s first LEED Platinum tower and the project brings together a sculptural massing rooted in place and a solar-responsive skin alluding to Islamic tradition.

1 May 2018 | Pittsburgh

The Tower at PNC Plaza

The Tower at PNC Plaza incorporates both highly technical green systems and channels for meaningful social interactions through a vertical column of two-story atriums.

1 April 2018 | Tokyo

Toranomon Hills

Toranomon Hills plays a significant urban role through the incorporation of vertically layered public spaces and investments into infrastructure improvements.

1 March 2018 | Singapore

SkyVille @ Dawson

SkyVille @ Dawson is a public housing project that provides 960 family homes while including a high level of amenities that foster communal living in a sustainable atmosphere.

1 February 2018 | Beijing

Beijing Greenland Dawangjing Tower

The Beijing Greenland Dawangjing Tower’s distinct trapezoidal facade was developed to take advantage of the building’s site positioning and as a means to catch and refract sunlight.

2 January 2018 | Turin

Grattacielo Intesa Sanpaolo

The Grattacielo Intesa Sanpaolo building incorporates large environmentally friendly and socially conscious spaces as part of a design objective to experiment with communal urban forms.

1 December 2017 | Dubai

Marina 101

With architectural elements reminiscent of art-deco design, Marina 101 stands out in a city full of supertall structures.