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American Skyscrapers Architecture Designs
post updated February 25, 2026
US Skyscraper Architecture
We choose top quality or interesting US Skyscrapers.
We have 3 pages of American Skyscraper Architecture selections with links to many individual tower design project pages.
American Skyscraper Buildings: news + key projects
American Skyscraper Architecture : A-J
American Skyscrapers : K-Z (this page)
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Recent Skyscraper Designs in the USA, alphabetical:
American Skyscraper Buildings
Major Skyscraper Designs in the USA, alphabetical:
Louisville skyscraper design
Design: REX
picture : PRNewsFoto/Museum Plaza
LVMH Building, USA
Design: Christian de Portzamparc
photo : Wade Zimmerman
MoMA Tower, New York City, NY
Design: Ateliers Jean Nouvel
image © Ateliers Jean Nouvel
New York Times Building, New York City, NY
Design: Renzo Piano BW with FXFOWLE
photo by David Sundberg/Esto
One Bryant Park, New York City, NY
Design: Cook + Fox Architects
photo © Jock Pottle, Esto for Cook+Fox Architects
One Liberty Plaza, New York City, NY
Design: Skidmore Owings & Merrill (SOM)
photo © Andrew McRae
Time Warner Center, New York City, NY, USA
Design: Skidmore Owings & Merrill
photograph © Andrew McRae
World Trade Center towers, New York
Design: various architects
image : RSHP, Team Macarie
More American Skyscraper Buildings online soon.
Location: USA.
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US Skyscraper Buildings
Key modern US tower developments images and construction news. Contemporary tall buildings in the USA.
Key American Skyscraper Buildings, no links, alphabetical:
Lever Building, New York
Date built: 1952
Skidmore Owings & Merrill (SOM) Architects
Lever Building
Marina City – ‘Corncob towers’, Chicago, Illinois
Date built: 1967
Design: Bertrand Goldberg
Mixed-use development
One Chase Manhattan Plaza, New York City, NY
Date built: 1960
Design: Gordon Bunschaft / SOM
Pan Am Building, New York City, NY
Date built: 1963
Design: Walter Gropius with Emery Roth & Sons and Pietro Belluschi
This Manhattan high-rise structure has been renamed Metlife Building.
Penzoil Place, Houston, Texas
Date built: 1975
Philip Johnson Architect
36 storey skyscrapers, office space
PPG Place, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Date built: 1984
Philip Johnson and John Burgee
One PPG Place, 40-storey office building – PPG Industries headquarters
Rockefeller Center, New York
Date built: 1940
Raymond Hood, Architect
Rockefeller Center New York
Seagram Building 375 Park Avenue, New York
Date built: 1958
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Architect; Philip Johnson
Seagram Building
Sears Tower, Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois
Date built: 1973
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM)
Sears Tower
The Trump International Hotel and Tower, downtown Chicago
Adrian Smith, Skidmore, Owings and Merrill
Trump International Hotel Tower
92 storeys: 2nd tallest skyscraper in USA.
Woolworth Building, New York
Date built: 1913
Cass Gilbert, Architect
241m high, one of the first New York skyscrapers.
World Trade Center – site, New York
Date built: 1973; destroyed 2001
Minoru Yamasaki, Emery Roth & Sons
World Trade Center building
World Financial Center, New York
Date built: 1986
Cesar Pelli Architect
W.R. Grace Building, New York
Date built: 1974
Skidmore Owings & Merrill
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