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The Jin Mao Tower is a 420-meter mixed-use skyscraper located in the Lujiazui financial district of Shanghai, China. Completed in 1999 and designed by the architectural firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, its structure reflects a modernist aesthetic blended with traditional Chinese pagoda motifs. The b...
Lotte World Tower is a 123-story, 555-meter supertall skyscraper situated in the Sincheon-dong district of Seoul, South Korea. Designed by the architectural firm Kohn Pedersen Fox, the structure draws inspiration from traditional Korean ceramics and features a tapered, curved form. Completed in 2017...
Williams Tower is a 64-story, 275-meter office skyscraper located in Houston's Uptown Galleria district. Designed by architect César Pelli, the building is distinctive for its setback design and green glass exterior. It is notable for being one of the tallest skyscrapers in the United States located...
Cayan Tower, originally named Infinity Tower, is a 306-meter residential skyscraper located in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Completed in 2013, the 75-story structure is designed with a striking helical twist that rotates the building a full 90 degrees from its base to its top. Designed by the archit...
China World Trade Center Tower III is a 330-meter mixed-use skyscraper located in the Chaoyang district of Beijing. Completed in 2010 and designed by the architectural firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, the tower was the tallest building in Beijing at the time of its opening. The 74-story building for...
Trump International Hotel and Tower is a 423-meter mixed-use skyscraper in Chicago, Illinois, completed in 2009. Designed by architect Adrian Smith of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, the structure was briefly the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere before One World Trade Center was completed. Loc...
Franklin Center is a postmodern office skyscraper complex situated at 227 West Monroe Street in Chicago, Illinois. The primary tower, completed in 1989 and standing 60 stories tall, was designed by the architectural firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and originally known as the AT&T Corporate Center. I...
4 Times Square, also known as the Condé Nast Building, is a 48-story skyscraper at the intersection of Broadway and 42nd Street in Midtown Manhattan, completed in 1999. The building stands at 248 meters tall and was designed by Fox & Fowle Architects (now FXFOWLE). It was among the first major skysc...
Midtown Tower is a mixed-use skyscraper forming the principal high-rise element of the Tokyo Midtown development in Roppongi, Tokyo. Completed in 2007, it rises approximately 248 meters and was Tokyo's tallest building when it opened. The tower contains offices, retail-related facilities, and the Ri...
AT&T Corporate Center is the former name of the south tower of Franklin Center, a postmodern office complex in downtown Chicago. Completed in 1989, the tower rises approximately 307 meters and was designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, with Adrian Smith serving as design partner. Its granite-clad,...
Burj Mohammed Bin Rashid is a skyscraper in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, and the central tower of the World Trade Center Abu Dhabi mixed-use complex. Completed in 2014, it rises above a development containing residential, commercial, retail, and hospitality spaces on the site associated with the...
Truist Plaza is a 60-story office skyscraper in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, completed in 1992. Designed by John Portman & Associates, it rises about 265 meters and is recognizable by its stepped crown, pale stone exterior, and illuminated summit. Originally known as SunTrust Plaza, it was renamed aft...
Gas Company Tower is a 52-story office skyscraper on Bunker Hill in downtown Los Angeles. Completed in 1991 and designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, it rises about 228 meters and has a stepped, curved form clad in glass and stone. The building was developed as the headquarters of Southern Califor...
Nation Towers Abu Dhabi is a pair of mixed-use skyscrapers on the Abu Dhabi Corniche, UAE, comprising a hotel tower and a residential tower completed around 2015.
One Liberty Plaza is a 226-meter modernist skyscraper in Lower Manhattan, New York, completed in 1972 and formerly known as the United States Steel Building.
A 60-story, 265 m (869 ft) office tower in downtown Dallas completed in 1987, originally constructed as Momentum Place and later known as First RepublicBank Tower.
The shorter of the two OKO towers in Moscow City, standing approximately 255m and completed in 2015 as part of a mixed-use residential and office development.
The primary office tower of the World Trade Center Portland complex, completed in the 1980s in downtown Portland, Oregon, anchoring a mixed-use development near the Willamette riverfront.
