Zifeng Tower (Greenland Center-Zifeng Tower or Greenland Square Zifeng Tower, formerly Nanjing Greenland Financial Center) is a 450-meter (1,480 ft) supertall skyscraper (special class of skyscraper) in Nanjing, Jiangsu. The 89-story building...
Jeddah Tower is a megatall skyscraper currently under construction in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Located in the north of the city, it is the centrepiece of the Jeddah Economic City project. Jeddah Tower is planned to be the first 1-kilometre-tall (1,000...
This is a list of the tallest buildings. Tall buildings, such as skyscrapers, are intended here as enclosed structures with continuously occupiable floors and a height of at least 350 metres (1,148 ft). Such definition excludes non-building...
The Senna Tower is an under construction supertall residential skyscraper in Balneário Camboriú, Brazil. The tower will be the first residential building in Latin America to use the tuned mass damper (TMD) technology to reduce oscillations of the...
Adrian Devaun Smith (born August 19, 1944) is an American architect. He designed the world's tallest structure, Burj Khalifa, as well as the building projected to surpass it, the Jeddah Tower. A long-time principal of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, he...
This list of tallest buildings in Nanjing ranks skyscrapers in Nanjing, in Jiangsu, China by height. Nanjing is the capital and largest city of Jiangsu with a total population of 7.7 million, and the second largest commercial centre in the East...
111 West 57th Street, also known as Steinway Tower, is a supertall residential skyscraper in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City, New York, U.S. Developed by JDS Development Group and Property Markets Group, it sits on Billionaires'...
30 Hudson Yards (also known during construction as the North Tower) is a supertall commercial skyscraper on the West Side of Midtown Manhattan in New York City. Located near Hell's Kitchen, Chelsea, and the Penn Station area, the building is part of...
The Burj Khalifa is the tallest structure ever built, with a pinnacle height of 830 m (2722 ft) tall. The 20th and 21st centuries marked a notable uptick in terms of construction of tall structures. The majority of supertall structures are in Asia.
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (branded as SOM) is an American architectural, urban planning, and engineering firm with headquarters in Chicago, Illinois. It was founded in 1936 by Louis Skidmore and Nathaniel Owings. In 1939, they were joined by...
