The Tulip – a 305.3-metre tall tower topped with a viewpoint and rotating gondolas designed by Foster + Partners – is planned to be built alongside the Gherkin in London. More
The wavy bands that will stretch up this residential tower, which US firm Studio Gang has designed for Honolulu, are based on the shapes of sugarcane plants. More
New York firm SHoP Architects' regeneration plans for a former department store in Downtown Detroit, which include building the city and state's tallest tower, have undergone dramatic revisions. More
The controversy surrounding the site of Santiago Calatrava's ill-fated Chicago Spire continues, as the city stalls the pair of skyscrapers that SOM's David Childs has proposed for the vacant waterfront plot. More
French architect Jean Nouvel has completed an office skyscraper in Marseille, with a concrete facade painted in 27 shades of red, white and blue in celebration of the port city's landscape. More
Long associated with Wall Street and World Trade, the densely packed southern tip of Manhattan is now becoming a sought-after place to live. Here are eight towers under construction or recently completed in FiDi that offer high-rise living Downtown. More
Architecture firm BIG has released renderings of its first project in South America: a curved tower covered with planted balconies that would become the tallest building in Quito. More
Triangle-shaped towers fitted with smart technology form the centre of Lahdelma & Mahlamäki Architects competition-winning masterplan for Helsinki. More
Watch towers by Rafael Viñoly, Richard Meier and KPF rise in this time-lapse video, which shows that the Waterline Square development on Manhattan's Upper West Side is almost complete. More
The tallest building in western Canada is now a 56-storey glazed skyscraper with rounded corners, designed by global firm Arney Fender Katsalidis. More
Work has begun on a 200-metre-high office tower designed by Foster + Partners in Shanghai, as part of a regeneration programme in the east of the city. More
Construction images reveal that the world's skinniest skyscraper, 111 West 57th by SHoP Architects, has gained supertall status. More
Volumes stagger in and out to create planted balconies and overhangs at the edges of this residential tower that Moshe Safdie's architecture firm has revealed for Quito, Ecuador. More
British architect David Adjaye has designed a show residence to offer a taste of interiors at his first Manhattan skyscraper, which is currently under construction. More
A 20-storey-high tower designed by the late Will Alsop, at his studio All Design, is set to be constructed beside the River Thames in London and is likely to become the architect's last major project in the city. More
US architecture firm Studio Gang has revealed new renderings of a 40-storey apartment building in San Francisco, which will feature reinterpretations of the city's "classic bay windows" spiralled around its exterior. More
Budapest is to introduce a ban on all buildings over 90 metres, but this will not impact Foster + Partners' plan to build a 120-metre-tall tower, which has already won planning permission. More
UNStudio and Cox Architecture have won a competition to design a supertall skyscraper for Melbourne, with a pair of twisting green towers. More
Japanese firm Mitsubishi Jisho Sekkei has completed a 272-metre high office skyscraper in Taipei, which is adjoined to a retail building clad in a delicate metal lattice. More
Dubai's first skyscraper, first library and a clock tower are all set to be heritage-listed, as the UAE's largest city looks to preserve the early buildings that shaped its development. More