Local studio Hill West Architects has completed the sail-shaped Olympia Dumbo residential skyscraper in Brooklyn, which has a design informed by the industrial heritage of the borough. More about Hill West Architects completes "sail-like" Dumbo skyscraper
Australian studio Koichi Takada Architects has completed Upper House, a 33-storey high-rise in Brisbane designed to reflect the city's tropical setting and First Nations history. More about Woven timber "roots" frame Brisbane high-rise by Koichi Takada Architects
Developer Omniyat has revealed plans for the Vela and Vela Viento residential skyscrapers in Dubai, which will be designed by British studio Foster + Partners and feature apartments with skybridge dining rooms. More about Foster + Partners designs pair of residential skyscrapers overlooking Dubai bay
Photographer Rasmus Hjortshøj has captured a pair of spiky high-rise buildings by Danish studio BIG as they near completion in Copenhagen. More about Spiky Kaktus Towers by BIG nearing completion in Copenhagen
Portuguese studio OODA has revealed a skyscraper made up of 13 staggered cube volumes as its design for the Hora Vertikale residential development in Tirana. More about OODA designs staggered skyscraper in Tirana as "unique vertical village"
Australian architecture studio Fraser & Partners has revealed its design for a nearly 190-metre-tall residential tower named C6 in Perth, Australia, describing it as a "new benchmark in height for mass timber". More about Fraser & Partners unveils design for world's tallest hybrid timber tower in Perth
Texas studio Michael Hsu Office of Architecture has designed the common areas for a 50-storey residential high-rise building in Austin, as shown in this exclusive video captured by Dezeen. More about Video reveals Michael Hsu's organic approach to interiors of Austin high-rise
British architecture studio HTA Design has completed a 163-metre-tall apartment building in Croydon, UK, that it claims is "Europe's tallest residential tower to be completed using volumetric construction methods". More about HTA Design completes Europe's tallest modular residential tower in Croydon
Dutch architecture studio MVRDV has added a colourful gridded facade to a skyscraper in Shenzhen, to create a hotel and centre dedicated to the welfare of women and children. More about MVRDV transforms Shenzhen skyscraper into colourful women and children's centre
Dutch firm UNStudio has revealed its design for New Heart, two high-rises that will sit at the centre of a new development in Düsseldorf, Germany, and feature staggered terraces and a bright-orange bridge. More about UNStudio unveils design for stepped-terrace towers in Düsseldorf
Promotion: US firm Design Collective has developed a 27-storey mixed-use tower in Silver Spring, Maryland, which is clad in custom-coloured bricks by material manufacturer Glen-Gery. More about High contrast brick by Glen-Gery helps blend Maryland high rise into skyline
Dutch architecture studio MVRDV has created The Canyon, a housing complex in San Francisco that marks its first completed project on the United States' West Coast. More about MVRDV unveils The Canyon tower with "public ravine" in San Francisco
Local firm Studio Noju has updated a two-storey Madrid apartment within the Torres Blancas high-rise with a renovation that remains "in constant dialogue" with the original apartment design. More about Studio Noju renovates curvy apartment in brutalist Torres Blancas tower
Chicago-based Studio Gang has completed a pair of residential buildings called the Q Residences in Amsterdam with balconies that "migrate in and out of the facade" and a public plaza that links them. More about Studio Gang unveils its first European buildings in Amsterdam
Boston-based architecture studio Safdie Architects has completed the 24-storey Qorner residential skyscraper in Ecuador that has a snaking profile with staggered apartments and terraces. More about Safdie Architects completes Quito skyscraper with undulating "hillside" facades
A facade of cascading balconies defines the residential Iqon skyscraper near La Carolina park in Quito, which is Danish architecture studio BIG's first completed project in South America. More about BIG completes Quito's tallest building with pixelated facade
Chicago-based Studio Gang has completed a residential tower in Hawaii called Kō'ula with an undulating facade that takes cues from local ecology. More about Studio Gang completes Hawaii skyscraper with sugar cane-informed facade
The Regenerative High-Rise is a concept for a modular timber tower by architecture studio Haptic and engineering firm Ramboll that could be used to transform tricky sites in cities worldwide. More about Haptic and Ramboll develop conceptual timber high-rise for "any city in the world"
German practice Behet Bondzio Lin Architekten has completed a church and social welfare centre in New Taipei City, Taiwan, housed in a high-rise concrete block topped with an angular roof. More about Behet Bondzio Lin Architekten combines "sacred and ordinary" in concrete church tower
Three angular peaks with jutting stone-clad balconies and windows make up Valley, a mixed-use high-rise by architecture studio MVRDV that is nearing completion in the Netherlands. More about Valley by MVRDV photographed near completion in Amsterdam