Construction company Bouygues Bâtiment International has built Clement Canopy, a pair of 140-metre-high towers made of prefabricated concrete modules. More about World's tallest modular tower is now Clement Canopy in Singapore
Manhattan Loft Gardens is a 143-metre-high tower with two cantilevers designed by Skidmore Owings & Merrill that overlooks London's 2012 Olympic Games park. More about SOM completes double-cantilevered Manhattan Loft Gardens tower
Balconies fan out like leaves from the mixed-use L'Arbre Blanc tower, which Sou Fujimoto has completed in Montpellier with Nicolas Laisné, Dimitri Roussel and OXO Architectes. More about Balconies branch out from Sou Fujimoto's tree-like tower in Montpellier
Ron Arad Architects has revealed a twisted tower that is narrow at the base but widens at the top, built as the first phase of the ToHA office complex in Tel Aviv. More about Ron Arad's twisting ToHA tower nears completion in Tel Aviv
Heatherwick Studio has released photos of EDEN, a 20-storey concrete tower that is nearing completion in the Orchard Road neighbourhood of Singapore. More about Heatherwick Studio reveals first images of Singapore tower with shell-like balconies
Dutch House is a pair of brick apartment blocks in Moscow designed by Rotterdam studio Team Paul de Vroom + Sputnik to directly reference the architecture of the Amsterdam School. More about Team Paul de Vroom + Sputnik completes pair of Dutch towers in Moscow
Mjøstårnet by Voll Arkitekter in Brumunddal, Norway, has been verified as the world's tallest timber building by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat. More about Mjøstårnet in Norway becomes world's tallest timber tower
Koichi Takada Architects has designed a podium fronted with brick archways as the base of the glass and steel Arc tower in Sydney, Australia. More about Brick archways topped by rounded glass tower at Arc by Koichi Takada Architects
The number of new tall buildings planned for London has gone up to 541 thanks to a surge in planning approvals, according to research from New London Architecture. More about Record-breaking 541 skyscrapers proposed for London as planning approvals soar
Italian architect Stefano Boeri has designed a vertical forest tower for Tirana, Albania, which will be planted with colourful and scented flowers and herbs. More about Stefano Boeri designs Tirana Vertical Forest in Albanian capital
This 14-storey riverside residential block in Brisbane, named Walan, is conceived as a stack of traditional Queenslander residences with characteristic 360-degree verandas. More about Bureau Proberts wraps Brisbane tower in a slatted screen
Metropolitan Workshop's tower of small modular homes in London is covered in a "chameleon-style" facade of glazed terracotta that changes colour in the different light conditions. More about Metropolitan Workshop covers tower of modular homes with glazed ceramic tiles
Dutch architect René van Zuuk has completed an apartment building in the town of Hilversum featuring a cross-shaped plan that expands as it rises to accommodate more living units on the upper storeys. More about Belvedere Tower is a top-heavy cross-shaped Dutch apartment block
A twisting tower clad in reflective stainless steel panels, designed by architect Frank Gehry, is taking form in the south of France. More about Frank Gehry's stainless steel-clad Luma Arles tower takes shape in France
Dutch firm MVRDV has broken ground on its first project in the US: a mixed-use "vertical village" made up of yellow, blue, red and green brickwork volumes. More about MVRDV's Radio Tower & Hotel for New York constitutes colourful Lego-like blocks
Innovationen Tower, a 125-metre high tower formed of stacked precast concrete modules, has completed as part of an OMA-designed housing development in Stockholm. More about OMA's prefabricated concrete tower has "echoes of brutalist architecture"
Vertical perforated-metal louvres wrap around the curved facades of this tower designed by CF Møller Architects for the University of Copenhagen. More about CF Møller's Maersk Tower is "sculptural linchpin" on the Copenhagen skyline
Brown brick facades of Promontorio's tower in the Angolan town of Lubango recall the tones of traditional African rammed-earth buildings. More about Promontorio's brick-clad Lubango Center rises above an Angolan town square
Architecture firm OMA has completed two of its three residential towers in Miami's Coconut Grove, both punctured with grids of covered terraces around the exteriors. More about OMA completes two towers at Park Grove complex in Miami
Budapest is to introduce a ban on all buildings over 90 metres, but this will not impact Foster + Partners' plan to build a 120-metre-tall tower, which has already won planning permission. More about Foster + Partners' Budapest tower will be built despite city's new skyscraper ban