Skyscraper Developments: Tallest Buildings
Tall Towers across the Globe. Tallest Buildings in the World Images + Links.
post updated 25 September 2026
Our Editors choose the key international examples of Skyscraper Developments. We include only the major contemporary tall buildings globally.
e-architect feature completed tower buildings and new Skyscraper building designs across the world. The focus is on contemporary Skyscraper buildings.
We have 6 pages of Skyscraper Development selections.
Developments of Skyscrapers
World Skyscrapers : news + major towers
Skyscraper Images : A-B
Skyscraper Developments : C-H (this page)
Skyscraper Designs : I-N
Tower Images : O-Z
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Skyscraper Building Developments – latest additions to this page, arranged chronologically:
30 Sep 2013
Dumankaya IKON, Istanbul, Turkey
Design: TAGO Architects
photo : Andrei Nedelcu
This skyscraper building is formed of three elliptical towersup to 41 storeys high. The towers are linked on 3 levels.
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Skyscraper developments – tallest buildings architects in 2012
14 Nov 2012
DUO Towers Singapore – building news
Design: Buro Ole Scheeren
image © Buro-OS
DUO Towers Singapore
The design for this Malaysian-Singaporean joint venture actively engages the space of the surrounding city to form a new civic nucleus in Singapore’s modern metropolis. The two towers are not conceived as autonomous objects, but defined by the spaces they create around them.
10 May 2012
Dancing Dragons, Yongsan International Business District in Seoul
Design: Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture (AS+GG)
image © AS+GG
Dancing Dragons Towers
This is a design for a pair of landmark supertall mixed-use towers for the new Yongsan International Business District in Seoul, South Korea. The buildings, which include residential, “officetel” and retail elements, consist of slender, sharply angled mini-towers cantilevered around a central core.
9 Feb 2012
Etihad Towers, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Architects: DBI Design
image from architects office
Etihad Towers
These new Abu Dhabi buildings – five towers – include a tower of 76 storeys and over 300m (984 feet) in height, which places these skyscrapers in the building category of ‘Super-talls’.
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High-rise photos, towers designs pictures in 2011
22 July 2011
Cherry Orchard Road, London, UK
Design: make architects
image : Miller Hare
Cherry Orchard Road – 55 storeys This skyscraper development includes two residential buildings, one of which is a 55-storey tower, providing 496 homes, a 165-bed hotel with 22 serviced apartments, 6,600 sqm of new office accommodation, a new 530 sqm community centre, shops, cafes, bars and restaurants and public realm improvements.
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World Skyscraper Developments
Major Contemporary Skyscraper Architecture Developments, alphabetical:
C
Chelsea Tower, UAE
Design: Atkins
Headquarter of China Insurance Group
Coop Himmelb(l)au
China World Trade Tower, Beijing, China
Design: SOM
The China World Trade Tower is an 81-story, mixed use building set in Beijing’s Central Business District. The property development contains offices, meeting space, restaurants, and the China World Summit Wing hotel. The building by SOM now stands as Beijing’s tallest structure and marks the completion of the third and most recent phase of the China World Trade Center development.
Chrysler Building, New York City, NY
City Palace Tower, Russia
Design: RMJM Architects
COR tower Miami, USA
Oppenheim Architecture + Design
Rising 400 feet above the Design District, Cor extracts power from its environment utilizing the latest advancements in wind turbines, photovoltaic’s, and solar hot water generation – while integrating them into its architectural identity.
Crystal Island Moscow, Russia
Foster + Partners
D
Dawangjing District Masterplan, China
Design: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM)
In response to the pressing demand to reduce carbon emissions and protect natural resources, SOM’s plan calls for a new Central Park as a resource for geo-thermal exchange. The plan proposes to passively heat and cool many district buildings, reducing the need for water-consuming cooling towers.
DIFC Lighthouse skyscraper, Dubai
Design: Atkins
Dorobanti Tower, Bucharest
Design: Zaha Hadid Architects
The Dorobanti Tower was designed to establish an iconic presence in the heart of Bucharest. The new tower is a unique mix of a distinctive form, ingenious structure, and spatial qualities of sky-high living.
DSEC Tower, UAE
Atkins
Dubai hotel tower, UAE
Atkins
E
Eiffel Tower, Paris, France
G
Gazprom tower, Russia – St Petersburg Architecture
RMJM Architects
Guangzhou Park Hyatt skyscraper, China
Goettsch Partners
H
Headquarter of China Insurance Group
Coop Himmelb(l)au
Hearst Tower, New York
Foster + Partners
Hermitage Plaza Skyscrapers, France
Foster + Partners
Hudson Yards New York skyscrapers
Design: Steven Holl Architects
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Tall Buildings in Key Countries
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