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Wasl Tower brings design restraint to a city full of showstopping supertalls and bombastic high-rises.

Learn more about the awardee in the Tall Buildings category by Groupe3 Architectes.

Replacing (and recycling some of) SOM’s 1960 Union Carbide tower, the new all-electric skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan is the sixth tallest in New York at nearly 1,400 feet.

Catering to tourists and to developers’ demands, towers around the world are increasingly resembling theme parks, writes Nathan Eddy.

A central design element of the Milan firm’s design for Casa BFF is a soaring canopy supported by a series of slender steel columns.

The sustainable centerpiece of this immense mixed-use development, master planned by Hariri Pontarini Architects, is an innovative deep-lake-water cooling system.

The mid-century high-rise emerges from a Asti Architetti–led refresh that stretches from the tower’s street-level plaza to its copper-clad mansard roof.

The book on Citicorp Tower and its potentially calamitous design flaw ‘puts a fresh spin on a familiar story that continues to offer lessons for the building professions writ large.’

In this June 1977 article, William Marlin mulls over the deeper implications, clouded by controversy, that lie beneath the making of Henry Cobb’s elegant Boston edifice.

The 27-story Harwood No.14 is the Tokyo firm’s third completed project—and the tallest building overall—in the mixed-use enclave.