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 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.

1 November 2017 | New York City

Hearst Tower

The Hearst Headquarters became the first New York City commercial office building to achieve Gold LEED Certification from the US Green Building Council.

1 October 2017 | New York City

432 Park Avenue

432 Park Avenue represents a new generation of superslim skyscrapers and is defined by its simplicity and large glass windows set in a regular grid of exposed concrete members.

1 September 2017 | Nanchang

Jiangxi Nanchang Greenland Central Plaza

The Jiangxi Nanchang Greenland Central Plaza includes two identical towers clad in a sleek glass curtain wall whose shapes morph from base to top.

1 August 2017 | Singapore

Sky Habitat

Sky Habitat explores the balance of high-density living with humanistic concepts of community, landscape, gardens, and daylight by utilizing a three-dimensional matrix of homes.

1 July 2017 | Frankfurt am Main

ECB - European Central Bank

European Central Bank's two towers are connected by a full-height atrium, referred to as the "vertical city."

1 June 2017 | Dubai

Iris Bay

Iris Bay integrates environmental mandates into an architecturally expressive structure that challenges traditional high-rise forms.

1 May 2017 | Singapore

South Beach

The South Beach development includes two inclined towers defined by an environmental screen surging from the lower canopy to mitigate harsh sun in the sky gardens and balconies.

1 March 2017 | Beirut

The Cube

The Cube consists a series of stacked, displaced, and rotated boxes supported by perforated concrete girder walls that have a strong interior and exterior impact.

1 February 2017 | Mexico City

Torre Reforma

The Torre Reforma is Mexico's tallest building and features a versatile, column-free interior that incorporates natural energy-reducing elements and a structurally expressive exterior.

1 January 2017 | Nicosia

The White Walls

The White Walls has transformed the urban silhouette of Nicosia, drawing upon its context to deliver a tower that is unmistakably Mediterranean, yet globally influential.