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Skyscraper Architecture : Tallest Buildings in the World
Tall Structures across the Globe : Images + Links.
post updated 1 December 2024
e-architect choose the key examples of Skyscraper Images from around the globe. We cover completed tower buildings and new Skyscraper building designs across the world. The focus is on contemporary Skyscraper buildings.
We have 6 pages of Skyscraper Development selections with links to hundreds of individual high-rise project pages.
Images of Skyscrapers
World Skyscrapers : news + major towers
Skyscraper Images : A-B (this page)
Skyscraper Developments : C-H
Skyscraper Designs : I-N
Tower Designs : O-R
Tower Images : S-Z
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Skyscraper Images
Tallest Building Images – latest additions to this page, arranged chronologically:
1 World Trade Center, NYC, USA
image from CTBUH
Height Confirmation for One World Trade Center at 1,776 Feet – 13 Nov 2013
The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat Height Committee has ruled on the official height of this important skyscraper building (541.3 m) on the site of the former twin towers, aka Ground Zero. This WTC tower was originally designed by architect Daniel Libeskind but has been taken to completion by SOM who have a strong track record going back many years with designing skyscrapers.
Absolute Tower, Mississauga, Canada : Emporis Skyscraper Award – 17 Sep 2013
Design: MAD Studio with Burka Architects
photo © Edvard Mahnic
The world’s most renowned architecture prize for skyscrapers, the Emporis Skyscraper Award, was awarded in 2013 to the ‘Marilyn Monroe Towers’ near to Toronto. The two 170m high towers were selected by a jury from over 300 skyscrapers at least 100 meters tall completed last year. These skyscraper buildings have created so much interest across the world due to their beautifully twisting forms.
425 Park Avenue, New York, NY, USA
Foster + Partners wins competition for new tower
image : dbox / Foster + Partners
425 Park Avenue – 3 Oct + 11 Jul 2012
Shortlisted Architects
Four of the world’s most acclaimed architecture firms are participating this week in the conceptual design phase of its architectural competition for a new office tower to be constructed at 425 Park Avenue in Manhattan:
Foster + Partners (Lord Norman Foster)
Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (Lord Richard Rogers)
OMA (Rem Koolhaas)
Zaha Hadid Architects
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Key Skyscraper Projects
Skyscraper Designs, alphabetical:
0-14 tower, Dubai, UAE
Reiser + Umemoto
image from architect
2CDE Dubai skyscraper, UAE
Atkins
picture from architect
2IFC Hong Kong Skyscraper, Hong Kong
Cesar Pelli
photo © Andrew McRae
9 West 57th Street Building, New York
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP
photograph © Andrew McRae
21st Century Tower, Dubai, UAE
Atkins
picture from architect
23 East 22nd Street, New York City, NY, USA
Design: Office for Metropolitan Architecture
image from Office for Metropolitan Architecture
99 Church Street Tower, New York
Robert A. M. Stern Architects
image dbox, courtesy of Silverstein Properties
200 Greenwich Street, New York
Foster + Partners
picture : Foster + Partners
Abu Dhabi Tower, UAE
RMJM Architects
image from architect
Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, UAE
KPF
photo : H.G. Esch
ACC Tower, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Kohn Pedersen Fox
picture : Awad Architectural Models Inc.
The Address, Dubai, UAE
Atkins
image from architect
Agbar Tower, Barcelona, Spain
Jean Nouvel Architects
photo © Adrian Welch
Al Mas Tower, UAE
Atkins
photo from architect
Al Salam Tecom Tower, Dubai, UAE
Atkins
picture from architect
Anara Tower, UAE
Atkins
image from architect
Aurora Belfast, Northern Ireland
HKR Architects
picture from architect
Bahrain World Trade Centre, Bahrain
Design: Atkins
photograph from architects
Bank of China Tower, Hong Kong
Design: IM Pei
photo © Andrew McRae
Beach Front Hotel Skyscraper, Dubai
Atkins
picture from architects
Beach Road sksycraper, Singapore
Foster + Partners
image from architects
Burj Al Alam tower, UAE
Nikken Sekkei
picture from architects
Busan World Business Centre, Korea
Design: UNStudio, Architects
image : UNStudio 2007
Business Bay Towers, UAE
Design: Atkins
picture from architect
More Skyscraper Images online soon
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Tall Buildings
World’s Tallest Building : Burj Khalifa
Torre de Collserola, Barcelona : Spanish skyscraper design by Foster + Partners
photo © Thomas Boczko
Astana tower : Kazakhstan skyscraper design by Foster + Partners
picture : Foster + Partners
Architecture Design
Contemporary Building Designs – recent architectural selection from e-architect below:
Comments / photos for the Worlds Skyscraper Images page welcome.