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Tower Images : Skyscraper Buildings

Contemporary Tall Structures across the Globe. New Skyscraper Building Photos.

post updated 25 September 2026

e-architect select the most significant examples of Tower Buildings from around the world. We cover completed tower buildings and new skyscraper building designs across the globe.

We have 6 pages of Skyscraper Development selections.

Tower Building Images

World Skyscrapers : news + major towers

Skyscraper Images : A-B

Skyscraper Developments : C-H

Skyscraper Designs : I-N

Tower Images : O-Z (this page)

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New Skyscraper Building Images

Tallest Building Images, chronological:

Shanghai Tower, China
Design: Gensler

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This elegant new tower rotates as it juts skyward and concludes with an open-top design. As the shape rises, an open notch curves up and around the building. This device is an engineering feature to control the wind up and away from the building.

Oct 2013
Shenzhen Stock Exchange, China
Design: OMA

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This tower is highly unusual, as one might expect from this creative Dutch architecture office. Raising the podium subverts the traditional necessity of connecting a podium to the earth: is this a successful attack on the architectural tradition of the office tower?

25 Apr 2012
U-bora Towers, Business Bay, Dubai, UAE
Design: Aedas

image © Aedas Ltd
U-bora Towers
This building development is primarily an office tower with a lower residential element. This skyscraper building received an award at the 2012 Cityscape Abu Dhabi Award. The building billows out slightly as it rises, like a subtle version of the Walkie Talkie Building in the City of London. This is the fifth award won by this skyscraper building.

21 June 2011
Wuhan Greenland Center, China
Design: Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture (AS+GG)

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This tower is 606 m high (1,988 ft) with 119 floors, making it one of the tallest buildings in the world. The 300,000 sqm area includes about 200,000 sqm of offices, 50,000 sqm of apartments and condominiums, a 45,000 sqm hotel and a 5,000 sqm private club.

World’s Tallest Building : Burj Khalifa

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Tower Images : International Skyscraper Building Designs

The Tallest Towers, alphabetical:

One Bryant Park, New York City, NY, USA
Design: Cook + Fox Architects
Design inspired by famed New York Crystal Palace, the first light metal frame building in America, erected in Bryant Park in 1853, along with cultural influences from New York City’s classic skyscrapers.

P17 skyscraper, Dubai, UAE
Design: Atkins
Located on the city’s main artery, Sheikh Zayed Road, the Atkins designed ‘P-17’ makes another strong statement in adding to both Atkins’ and Dubai’s growing portfolio of landmark buildings.

Pearl River Tower, Guangzhou, China
Design: SOM, architects
The 2.3-million sqft tower redefines what’s possible in sustainable design by incorporating the latest sustainable technology and engineering advancements. Due to the unique shape of the building, as well as the wind and seismic loads imposed on the tower, the design integrates structural systems, in both steel and reinforced concrete are utilized.

Penang Global City Center, Malaysia
Design: Asymptote Architecture

Phare Tower Paris, France – design proposal, unbuilt
Design: Morphosis

Pier 8 skyscraper, Dubai, UAE
Design: Atkins

Pinnacle (at) Duxton, Singapore
Design: ARC Studio Architecture + Urbanism
Soaring at 50-storeys this tower building redefines high-rise high-density living and challenges the conventions of public housing as an architectural typology. The project addresses pragmatic, financial, social issues, and responds sensitively to a myriad of planning constraints.

Piraeus Tower Architecture Competition, Greece : Open Architectural Ideas Contest

Ras Al Khaimah Tower, UAE
Design: Snøhetta
Situated in the desert 150 km to the east of Dubai this landmark tower design will mark the gateway to the emirate and form the entrance to the new planned capital city of Ras Al Khaimah. The architectural expression for our proposal is inspired by the surrounding desert and mountain landscape.

Regal Tower Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK
Design: Aedas

Roche Tower Basel, Switzerland
Design: Herzog & de Meuron

Rockefeller Center, New York
Raymond Hood Architect

Rothschild Tower, Tel Aviv, Israel
Design: Richard Meier & Partners Architects
This tower design is a pure, simple iconic residential, retail and office facility for the city of Tel Aviv. The 37-story tower for Berggruen Construction and Development will be located on Rothschild Boulevard and Allenby Street, one of Tel Aviv’s most distinguished addresses.

Rotterdam City Tower, Netherlands
Design: Monolab

Russia Tower, Moscow, Russia
Design: Foster + Partners

Sarajevo skyscraper
Design: Groleger Arhitekti
The idea by Groleger Arhitekti to create a building, a “diptych”, a merging tower based apparently on two independent volumes, started by a profound analysis of the urbanistic, cultural and social factors of the City of Sarajevo. The result is a metaphorical and encoded building encompassing all environmental influences.

Sama Tower, Dubai
Design: Atkins
Situated on the upscale Sheikh Zayed Road, the 194m tall Sama Tower represents a truly modern design concept. The design responds to the challenge of providing a unique and dynamic form combined with the most efficient and effective space planning.

Sears Tower modernization, USA
Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture

Singapore Tower, Singapore
Design: Rem Koolhaas Architect / OMA

Shenzhen 4 in 1 Towers, China
Design: MVRDV

Shenzhen Skyscrapers, China
Design: Steven Holl Architects

Siberian skyscraper, Russia
Design: RMJM

Silver Tree Eco Tower, London, England, UK

Société Générale tower, France
Atelier Christian de Portzamparc

Soochow Securities Headquarters, China
Goettsch Partners

Strata skyscraper, UAE
Asymptote Architecture

Tianjin R&F Guangdong Tower, China
Goettsch Partners

Time Residences, Dubai
Design: Glenn Howells Architects

Time Warner Center, USA
Skidmore Owings & Merrill (SOM)