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American Skyscraper Architecture Designs
Key US Tower Developments – Tall Buildings in the USA.
post updated February 27, 2025
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We’ve selected what we feel are the key examples of US Skyscraper Architecture. We aim to include tower buildings / projects that are either of top quality or interesting, or ideally both.
We cover completed US Skyscraper buildings, new building designs and architecture competitions across the United States of America. The focus is on contemporary US towers but information on older tall buildings in the USA is also welcome.
We have 3 pages of American Skyscraper Architecture selections with links to many individual US high-rise project pages.
US Skyscraper Architecture
American Skyscraper Buildings: news + key projects
American Skyscraper Architecture : A-J (this page)
American Skyscrapers : K-Z
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Recent Skyscraper Designs in the USA, alphabetical:
Aqua Tower Chicago, Illinois
Design: Studio Gang Architects
picture : Studio Gang Architects
Totaling over 1.9 million sf, Aqua Tower is an 82-story mixed-use high-rise that includes a hotel, apartments, condominiums, parking and offices. Among the building’s notable features is the green roof terrace atop its plinth—which at 80,000 sf is one of Chicago’s largest—and contains an outdoor pool, running track, gardens, fire pits and yoga terrace.
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American Skyscraper Buildings
Major Skyscraper Designs in the USA, alphabetical:
9 West 57th Street Building, New York City, NY
Design: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP
photograph © Andrew McRae
23 East 22nd Street, New York City, NY, USA
Design: OMA (formerly Office for Metropolitan Architecture), The Netherlands
image from Office for Metropolitan Architecture
56 Leonard Street, New York City, NY
Design: Herzog & de Meuron, Switzerland
image © Herzog & de Meuron, Basel, 2008
77 West Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois
Design: Ricardo Bofill – ‘Taller de Arquitectura
photo from Ricardo Bofill Architects
99 Church Street Tower, New York City, NY
Design: Robert A. M. Stern Architects, USA
image dbox, courtesy of Silverstein Properties
200 Greenwich Street, New York City, NY
Design: Foster + Partners, UK
picture : Foster + Partners
235 Van Buren, Chicago, Illinois
Architects: Perkins+Will, Chicago
image from architect
ACC Tower, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Design: Kohn Pedersen Fox, USA
picture : Awad Architectural Models Inc.
400 Park Avenue South, New York City, NY
Design: Christian de Portzamparc Architect, France
picture from architects office
AT&T Building, New York City, NY
Design: Philip Johnson, Architect with John Burgee, USA
image : Isabelle Lomholt
BLUE Residential Tower, New York City, NY
Design: Bernard Tschumi
photo : Peter Mauss/ESTO
Brooklyn Tower, New York City, NY
Design: Behnisch Architekten with StudioMDA
picture from architects firm
COR tower Miami, Florida
Architects: Oppenheim Architecture + Design, USA
image from architects office
Hearst Tower, New York City, NY
Design: Foster + Partners
photograph © Andrew McRae
Hudson Yards New York skyscrapers, NYC
Design: Steven Holl Architects
image courtesy Steven Holl Architects
More Modern American Skyscraper Buildings online soon.
Location: USA, North America
Architecture in USA
Contemporary US Architecture
Chicago Skyscrapers
photo courtesy of Jan Klerks
World Skyscrapers
image from architect firm
Aon Center, Chicago
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Key American Skyscraper Buildings, no links, alphabetical:
15 Central Park West, New York
2008
Robert A. M. Stern
This new US tower design is up to 35 storeys in height.
111 First Street – mixed-use tower, Jersey City
2007
OMA
52 storeys high
500 Fifth Avenue Building, New York City, NY
1931
Shreve, Lamb & Harmon Associates
212m high
900 Madison Avenue, New York City, NY
2006-
30 storeys high
Austrian Cultural Forum Tower,
New York City, NY
2002
Atelier Raimund Abraham
24 storeys / 278ft high
Boston Tower, Massachusetts
2007-
Design: Renzo Piano Building Workshop (RPBW)
Carnegie Hall Tower, New York City
1990
Cesar Pelli Architect
Chrysler Building, New York City
1930
William Van Alen Architect
Chrysler Building
City Spire Center, New York City
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Murphy/Jahn Architects
248m high skyscraper
Eleven Times Square, New York City
2007-
FXFowle Architects
40 storeys
Empire State Building, New York City
1931
Shreve, Lamb & Harmon Architects
Empire State New York Building
Flatiron Building, New York City
1902
Daniel Burnham Architect
Fordham Spire, Chicago, Illinois
2006-10
Santiago Calatrava Architects
The Chicago Spire was set to be tallest tower in the USA.
Fountain Place, Dallas, Texas
1986
Pei Cobb Freed and Partners
60-storey skyscraper, 720 ft high
Hearst Building, New York City
2006
Foster + Partners
Hearst Building New York
Inland Steel Building, 30 W. Monroe, Chicago, Illinois
1956-57/58
Design: Skidmore Owings Merrill Architects – Walter Netsch
JP Morgan Chase New York, New York City
1960
SOM
215m high
John Hancock Tower, 200 Clarendon Street, Boston, Massachusetts
1976
I.M. Pei and Partners
John Hancock Tower : tallest New England building
Freedom Tower, Manhattan
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How Skyscrapers Are Built
Humans’ fascination with building tall structures has naturally lead to the creation of the skyscraper. These giant buildings have helped define the modern city, providing vast functionality and useful benefits to the everyday person.
Although each is inherently unique with its design and function, they all share a commonality: how they are made. There might be a difference here or there, but the method is inherently the same. BigRentz put together an animated infographic to showcase the method of how skyscrapers are built, showing the progress and ingenuity of architecture, construction, and design
Buildings / photos for the American Skyscraper Architecture Designs page welcome.
