Tall Building Projects

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The 126-foot-long light installation on the underside of the project's sky bridge encourages connection to the cosmos.

SHoP Architects founding principal Gregg Pasquarelli joins the podcast to discuss the development of The Brooklyn Tower and how the firm tried to capture the essence of New York with its residential supertall at 111 West 57th Street.

This project's polemical suggestion—office tower as oversized doric column—reflected the architect's quixotic response to one of the period's defining challenges.

As the demand for tall buildings endures, new considerations of form and function will have to emerge.

Looking at a handful of projects from the 1920s through 1940s, Suzanne Stephens traces shifting attitudes toward tall buildings in architectural criticism.

There's a new "world's second tallest" building, in Malysia, while the one vying for first place—the Jeddah Tower—resumes work.

This month's issue of RECORD looks at the latest crop of tall and supertall buildings rising around the globe.

One Za'abeel—designed by Japan's oldest architecture firm, Nikken Sekkei—raises the bar in a city full of pastiche towers.

A carefully considered response to its urban context, 8 Bishopsgate's stepped and subtly rotated volumes preserve views of historic sites.