Opinion: when the Tour Montparnasse was built in Paris, its residents were so appalled they banned all high-rises. Londoners should do something similar in the wake of Rafael Viñoly's walkie talkie, says Owen Hatherley. More about "Massive, horrible and unavoidable"
American firm SOM has completed a new tower in Nanchang, China, which features an exterior diagrid system that helps to shade the glass building. More about SOM adds glass skyscraper to growing Chinese tech district
Chinese firm MAD Architects has proposed a futuristic housing scheme for LA that features sculptural towers wrapped in gardens and connected by sky bridges. More about MAD proposes conceptual "vertical village" for LA as alternative to sprawl
Pomo summer: originally designed for American communications giant AT&T, Philip Johnson and John Burgee's Postmodern skyscraper was the first of its kind. Now known as the Sony Tower, the building remains controversial and is the next in our season on Postmodernism. More about Postmodern buildings: AT&T Building, New York by Johnson/Burgee
American firm Arquitectonica has completed a residential tower in Miami with a crinkled facade and a public park that passes underneath the raised building (+ slideshow). More about Arquitectonica creates waterfront tower in Miami with a sculptural facade
CRG Architects has unveiled a proposal to replace slum housing with a pair of skyscrapers comprising stacks of brightly coloured shipping containers. More about CRG Architects unveils concept for shipping container skyscrapers
British architect Atkins has started work on a 460-metre-high skyscraper in Ho Chi Minh City, which is set to become the tallest building in Vietnam on completion. More about Atkins starts building Vietnam's tallest skyscraper in Ho Chi Minh City
Studio Libeskind has won planning permission to build a 105-metre-high pointed skyscraper in the centre of Jerusalem – set to become the city's second-tallest building. More about Daniel Libeskind gets green light for pyramid-shaped skyscraper in Jerusalem
Rafael Viñoly's Walkie Talkie skyscraper in London has once again become a subject of controversy, following reports that its curved facade is channelling gusts of wind strong enough to knock people over. More about Walkie Talkie blamed for powerful downdraught on London streets
The foundations of a stalled 838-metre-high skyscraper in Changsha, China, are now being used as a fish farm, according to local reports. More about Foundations for planned "world's tallest building" in China repurposed as fish farm
Graduate shows 2015: human statues support the floors of these conceptual towers by graduate Alice Theodorou – part of a 10,000-year masterplan that anticipates nuclear war and city-wide flooding (+ slideshow). More about Humanoid columns support conceptual skyscrapers designed to never go out of style
Australian firm Elenberg Fraser has won planning approval for a 226-metre-high Melbourne skyscraper that will feature a curvaceous form taken from a music video by Beyoncé (+ slideshow). More about Beyoncé-inspired skyscraper to be built in Melbourne
These official images show 22 Bishopsgate: the skyscraper planned to replace London's part-built Pinnacle and become the tallest building in city’s central financial district. More about London's huge 22 Bishopsgate skyscraper revealed by developers
Paris is to get its first skyscraper for over 40 years after Herzog & de Meuron won planning permission for its 180-metre-high Tour Triangle. More about Paris to get first skyscraper since the 70s as Herzog & de Meuron's triangle tower approved
Bjarke Ingels' firm has won a competition to design a 185-metre-high skyscraper in Frankfurt, with a proposal it describes as both classical and sculptural (+ slideshow). More about BIG's experiments in skyscraper design continue with Frankfurt win
Designer Dror Benshetrit has unveiled three proposals for residential towers on different sites in New York. More about Studio Dror's conceptual tower designs for New York offer three takes on high-rise architecture
Opinion: a reactionary government policy from 1899 has turned Washington DC into a city of low buildings, expensive floor space and rampant inequality. A few skyscrapers could change all that, says Matthew Yglesias, executive editor of Vox. More about "Washington DC's aversion to skyscrapers has turned it into an American Versailles"
After the Walkie Talkie, here is a trio of Trimphones: New York-based architect Daniel Libeskind has unveiled designs for three towers to be built near the new AS Roma football stadium, with the tallest reaching 220 metres in height (+ slideshow). More about Daniel Libeskind plans three angular skyscrapers for Rome
Zaha Hadid has designed her second set of skyscrapers for Australia – a pair of sinuous towers that will be constructed beside the harbour in Gold Coast, Queensland. More about Zaha Hadid proposes a pair of tapered towers for Australia's Gold Coast
Construction work has begun on Foster + Partners' delayed New York tower at 425 Park Avenue (+ slideshow). More about Foster + Partners' New York skyscraper will be first new office tower on Park Avenue in 50 years