Architects Foster + Partners have attached a 35-storey tower onto the side of two renovated 1920s buildings in Vancouver’s financial district. More »
Tag: skyscrapers
Greenland Group Suzhou Center by SOM
American architects Skidmore, Owings & Merrill have won a competition to design a skyscraper for China with proposals that incorporate a 30-storey-high opening window. More »
Record-breaking number of skyscrapers
completed in 2011
Dezeen Wire: an annual report released by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat in Chicago reveals that the number of buildings over 200 metres tall completed in the last year has increased for the fifth consecutive time. More »
Competition: five copies of eVolo
Skyscrapers to be won
Competition: we've teamed up with the organisers of the eVolo Skyscraper Competition to give away five copies of their book, which collates 300 of the best entries from the past six years. More »
Mitikah Office Tower by Richard Meier & Partners
American architects Richard Meier & Partners have unveiled designs for a 34-storey tower in Mexico City. More »
"Exploding" twin towers by MVRDV
cause outrage
Dezeen Wire: Dutch architects MVRDV have received threatening emails and angry phone calls after revealing proposals for skyscrapers that resemble the exploding World Trade Centre on 9/11.
We published the project first on Dezeen, prompting outrage from many of our readers. One declared the images “insensitive and offensive” while another claimed “this is like 9/11 freeze framed”. More »
"Entering the era of the megatall"
- the 20 tallest buildings by 2020
Dezeen Wire: the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat in Chicago have published a report predicting the 20 tallest buildings in the world by the year 2020, including eight over 600 metres high. Read the full online report here. More »
The Cloud by MVRDV
Skyscrapers in Seoul: Dutch architects MVRDV have designed two skyscrapers for Seoul, Korea, that will be joined at the hip by a pixelated cluster. More »
The Scotts Tower by UNStudio
Angkasa Raya by Buro Ole Scheeren
Architect Ole Scheeren has designed a skyscraper for Kuala Lumpur that will have a four-storey-high tropical garden slicing through its middle. More »
Haikou Tower by HENN
The Kingdom Tower by Adrian Smith
+ Gordon Gill Architecture

Here's the first set of images of the Kingdom Tower, about to begin construction in Jeddah and set to be the world's tallest building at over 1000 metres. More »
New York by Gehry

Frank Gehry's residential skyscraper, New York by Gehry, is nearly complete. More »
Tour Végétale de Nantes by Edouard François

Plants adapted to thrive in rocky crevices will take over the facade of this tower for Nantes by French architect Edouard François. More »








