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Skyscraper Designs – Tower Buildings

Tall Structures across the globe. Modern Tower Images + Links

post updated 25 September 2026

Tallest Building Designs in the World

The Editors select the key examples of Skyscraper Designs. e-architect cover completed tower buildings and new skyscraper building designs across the world.

We have 6 pages of Skyscraper Architecture selections.

Designs of Skyscrapers

World Skyscrapers : news + major towers

Skyscraper Images : A-B

Skyscraper Developments : C-H

Skyscraper Designs : I-N (this page)

Tower Images : O-Z

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The Tallest Tower Designs

Skyscraper Architecture Designs, chronological:

Mode Gakuen Cocoon Tower, Tokyo, Japan
Design: Tange Associates Architects

photo : Koji Horiuchi

Mitikah Office Tower, México City
Design: Richard Meier & Partners Architects

image from architects
New office tower design – skyscraper building proposal for master plan designed by Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects

Infinity Tower Dubai, Dubai, UAE
Design: Skidmore Owings & Merrill (SOM)

image from Ruggiu

KfW Westarkade Building, Frankfurt, Germany : “Best Tall Building in the World 2011”

image © Sauerbruch Hutton

Michael Schumacher Tower design
Design: LAVA

picture from LAVA
This is apparently the first in a series of seven towers to be built worldwide (though have any been built? not at the time of writing). This is one of the first projects designed by the architecture studio based in German and Australia.

MoMA Tower New York, NY, USA
Design: Atelier Jean Nouvel

picture © Ateliers Jean Nouvel
This bold skyscraper design is 75 storeys high and is to include MoMA galleries (levels 2-5); a seven-star hotel ; 120 condominiums on the top floors.