Executive Director Antony Wood, Trustee Bill Baker, and several academic experts on urban issues spoke at the AAAS Annual Meeting on the panel The Future of Cities: Dense or Dispersed?

CTBUH chairman Timothy Johnson and Merrill structural amd engineering partner William Baker, a member of the CTBUH board of trustees, are spotlighted in an Atlantic Cit

See the highlights from the second day of the CTBUH 2013 London Conference including The Shard Networking Reception.

The board of trustees of the CTBUH held its annual meeting at IIT in Chicago on March 4. As a first order of business, the board welcomed three new trustees.

World Architecture News is spotlighting the CTBUH in a series of articles on the site’s Eco-in-the-City blog. The articles penned by CTBUH leaders are focusing on sustainability issues.

After one of the most successful years in the 43-year history of the CTBUH, the Board of Trustees gathered to review recent initiatives and discuss the Council’s long-term strategies.

In the week that we mark the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 events and the collapse of the World Trade Center towers CTBUH reflected on the impact on tall buildings.

Following the CTBUH 9th Annual Awards Dinner & Ceremony, the CTBUH Leadership team met again bright and early on the campus of the IIT in Chicago for their annual Leaders Meeting.

The 2010 annual Trustees meeting took place prior to the CTBUH 2010 World Conference Mumbai, in the same venue as the conference, the Renaissance Hotel Mumbai.

Several CTBUH Leaders were in attendance in the VIP section at the Burj Khalifa official opening on 4th January.

Preceding the CTBUH 2009 Chicago Conference, 55 leaders within the CTBUH organization gathered to discuss current developments, progress on projects, and new ideas and initiatives.

The new CTBUH Board of Trustees met at CTBUH Headquarters for their inaugural meeting. The seven people who currently make up the board were all present at the meeting.

In line with the expanding operation, CTBUH changed its Governance, including the creation of a new Board of Trustees.

The rapid development of modern Chinese cities has provided designers and developers with unique opportunities to create architecture that either responds to its existing context...

Three leading designers in the tall building industry share their take on the changes to the tall building industry and the impact of 9/11 on...

This paper presents a proposed methodology for the reliable determination of seismic performance factors for steel diagrid framed seismic force-resisting systems.

Chicago, a city known worldwide for its tall buildings, welcomed a new supertall tower to its skyline this year. Bookended by the 442-meter (1,450-foot) Sears...

The goal of the Burj Dubai Tower is not simply to be the world’s highest building; it’s to embody the world’s highest aspirations.

This paper overviews the monitoring program and then specifically focus on the finite element modeling of each of the buildings in the study. The paper...

Tower Palace III was conceived as a 93-story residential tower soaring 320 meters into Seoul’s skyline. However, concerns of the local residents and authorities over...

In this paper, the process of shaping the 2000 ft tower, Burj Dubai, in order to mitigate wind effects and assist in resisting loads is...

Mankind had always lived close to the ground. During the thousands of years that preceded the birth of the skyscraper, life was limited by a...