The City of Glasgow is on the cusp of a new era. With the recent publication of the Tall Buildings Design Guide, the city ...

The city council has approved its new tall buildings policy which it hopes will encourage the controlled development of ...

Location: Shanghai, China Height: 2,073 feet Completion date: 2014 Twisting to the sky with 128 floors that make the Shanghai Tower one of the tallest in the world, the design from Gensler ...

Tall buildings are SOM’s specialty. It designed New York’s One World Trade Center, Chicago’s Willis Tower, formerly known as the Sears Tower, and the world’s tallest skyscraper, the Burj ...

DENVER — A newly proposed 673-foot observation tower could become one of the tallest structures in Denver — if it ever gets ...

Tapered Form: A design configuration in which the building’s cross-sectional area diminishes with height, thereby improving aerodynamic performance and reducing wind forces. Tall Building Design ...

As part of our Timber Revolution series, Dezeen asked mass-timber experts about the ongoing race to build ever-taller wooden buildings. "For most buildings, tall timber does not make sense," said ...

Dubai, known for the world's tallest building among its iconic skyscrapers, is now set to have the world's tallest metro station, as the United Arab Emirates positions itself as a leading force in the ...

However, in the past few years, architects including Frank Gehry, SOM and Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF) have been commissioned to design buildings over 300 metres tall for various other cities on the ...

And nothing proves that more than the tallest buildings in the world. Their striking design plays a part, no doubt, but their seemingly physics-defying existence is what really draws a viewer’s ...

And a new second-tallest building in the world is set to be finished this year—it’s the angular Merdeka 118 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and measures a megatall 2,233 feet tall at the tippy top.

Life & Luxury; Design ‘Plyscrapers’ take tall buildings to new heights. Could the era of generic glass towers be coming to an end? An expert on tall buildings says the future lies in high ...