Engineers propose solution for San Francisco's sinking Millennium Tower
San Francisco's sinking skyscraper has descended another inch, but engineers have come up with a potential fix. More
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SOM designs "new skyline" for port area of Sri Lanka's largest city
SOM has won a competition to design a new district for Sri Lankan city Colombo, with a design featuring numerous skyscrapers, a marina, canals and a park, influenced by the country's tropical climate. More
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MVRDV designs new Rotterdam skyscraper featuring pixellated walls
Rotterdam studio MVRDV has unveiled plans to build a new skyscraper in its home city, featuring a pixellated facade made up of hundreds of bay windows. More
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Zaha Hadid Architects unveils new visuals for "stacked vases" hotel tower in Melbourne
Zaha Hadid Architects has revealed new visuals of its proposed 185-metre tower in Melbourne, which will be made up of four stacked blocks with white filigree facades. More
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Stefano Boeri designs "vertical forest" city to eat up China's smog
Italian architect Stefano Boeri has unveiled plans for a city near China's Liuzhou, featuring towers completely covered in trees and plants to combat air pollution. More
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Europe at forefront of timber construction finds CTBUH report
France, Austria and Norway are to become home to the world's tallest wooden buildings according to a new report by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, which has found Europe to be leading the timber construction movement. More
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LA's tallest skyscraper opens
The Wilshire Grand Center, America's tallest building west of the Mississippi River, has officially opened in Los Angeles. More
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Hollwich Kushner reimagines New York's art-deco landmarks
Architecture studio Hollwich Kushner has remodelled New York's art-deco buildings, including the Empire State Building and the Chrysler Building, to show what the iconic landmarks might look like if built today. More
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Freedom Tower is a "missed opportunity" says Ian Schrager
The skyscraper that replaced the Twin Towers represents a missed chance to create great architecture, according to New York hotelier Ian Schrager. More
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Skinny supertall tower by Meganom unveiled for New York
Moscow-based studio Meganom has been tapped to design its first US project – a slender, 305-metre residential skyscraper planned for Midtown Manhattan. More
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Dutch firm Concrete completes tallest residential skyscraper in New Jersey
Amsterdam-based studio Concrete has completed an apartment tower across from Manhattan that features a range of unusual amenities, including a "creative lab", and a residency program for scientists and artists. More
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Ole Scheeren's pixellated MahaNakhon tower photographed by Hufton + Crow
British duo Hufton + Crow visited Bangkok to capture these images of Thailand's tallest tower, which was designed by Ole Scheeren and features modular cutaways spiralling around its facades. More
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Images of New York skyscraper by David Adjaye leaked
Early renderings have emerged of The Wall Street Tower, a 61-storey skyscraper designed by British architect David Adjaye for Downtown Manhattan. More
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MAD's mountain-shaped tower complex nears completion in Beijing
New images by photographer Edmon Leong offer a first look at the nearly completed glass volumes of MAD's Chaoyang Park Plaza – a commercial and residential complex based on rock formations in Beijing. More
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Angled louvres shade glass skyscraper in Guadalajara by Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos
Mexican firm Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos has stacked offset volumes that contain a hotel and office spaces to form a tower in Guadalajara. More
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Skyscraper competition proposal involves erecting towers within world's largest trees
A conceptual scheme by a team of South Korean designers calls for inserting towers within the hollowed-out trunks of giant sequoias in the western US. More
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Kris Provoost photographs the most flamboyant architecture of China's building boom
OMA's trouser-shaped CCTV tower and Herzog & de Meuron's Bird's Nest stadium feature in this photo series by Kris Provoost, which documents the "weird architecture" China has tried to ban. More
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Riverside office tower in Chicago by Goettsch Partners rises from sharply tapered base
US firm Goettsch Partners has completed a glass skyscraper with a compact footprint, which responds to its placement next to active train tracks and the Chicago River. More
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SOM reveals designs for 16-hectare "vertical village" in central Bangkok
Skidmore Owings & Merrill has unveiled its vision for One Bangkok: a new district in the centre of the Thai city made up of a family skyscrapers interspersed with green spaces. More
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Modular farm tower for sites across Africa wins international skyscraper competition
Polish designers Pawel Lipiński and Mateusz Frankowski have envisioned a conceptual high-rise building that would act as a vertical farm, able to be disassembled and moved to different locations across sub-Saharan Africa. More