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Skyscrapers

July 2024

  • Angela Nikolau and Ivan Beerkus kiss on the very top of a tall building

    ‘It’s easier than life on the ground’: meet the Russian climbers who fell in love scaling the world’s skyscrapers

    Angela Nikolau and Ivan Beerkus are the stars of a thrilling new documentary, Skywalkers, which charts their attempts to illegally scale the world’s tallest buildings. They tell us how they found love along the way

May 2024

  • Rowan Moore

    Divisive, ugly, gloomy: when will the City of London see the light on tall towers?

    Rowan Moore
    The proposed 1 Undershaft skyscraper is meant to help woo workers, but it’ll make the Square Mile worse for everyone

January 2024

  • Rowan Moore

    Notebook
    Chateau Florence airport, anyone? A bouquet of fumes and jet fuel beckons

    Rowan Moore
  • Sphere Las Vegas

    Debacle over Sphere in London spotlights UK’s problem with planning

December 2023

  • colour picture of people today on the fake beam next to original black and white photograph of workers sitting on a beam above new york city

    I’m afraid of heights. Could I re-create the famous New York skyscraper beam photo?

    A new attraction at the Rockefeller Center allows visitors to stage Lunch atop a Skyscraper, at a less scary 12ft off the ground

April 2023

  • Artist’s render of STH BNK By Beulah, which will become Australia's tallest building.

    Planned $2bn Melbourne skyscraper project to deliver Australia’s tallest building

    Green-lit project will feature pair of towers, apartments, offices, luxury hotel and 6,000 sq metres of green space

September 2022

  • An aerial depiction of how the Line will look crossing Saudi Arabia

    Nine million people in a city 170km long; will the world ever be ready for a linear metropolis?

    Saudi Arabia has unveiled designs for a futuristic megastructure in the desert. But it is an idea that has preoccupied the imaginations of architects – and megalomaniacs – for generations

April 2022

  • World's skinniest tower opens to residents in New York City<br>NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 8: Steinway Tower, the world's skinniest skyscraper is seen on April 8, 2022 which has opened to residents in New York City, United States. The luxury condominium building is located near the Central Park in Manhattan, and boasts a 24:1 height to width ratio, according to its developers. It stands at 1,428 feet (435 meters) tall, making it one of the largest buildings in the western hemisphere, and the third tallest in New York City. (Photo by Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

    Pass notes
    The Coffee Stirrer: New York’s super-thin skyscraper is ready for residents – just don’t mention the swaying

    The Steinway Tower in Manhattan is so tall and skinny that luxury homes on the upper floors whip around by a few feet whenever the wind gets up

February 2022

  • Triangle Tower

    Work starts on environmentally ‘catastrophic’ Triangle Tower in Paris

    At 180 metres tall, pyramid-shaped glass and steel skyscraper will be city’s third-highest building

August 2021

  • Rowan Moore

    Notebook
    How to make London greener: stick up a tower block with a roof garden

    Rowan Moore
    The idea may not win the Garden Museum’s competition but, as a parody, it deserves a prize

May 2021

  • People flee in panic as 300-metre skyscraper wobbles in China – video

  • The SEG Plaza in Shenzhen was evacuated after it started shaking on Tuesday.

    Panic as 300-metre-high skyscraper wobbles in China

April 2021

  • Rowan Moore

    Notebook
    New York deserves better than Andrew Cuomo’s towering folly

    Rowan Moore
    The state governor seems determined to give the city’s famous skyline a lumpy revamp

October 2019

  • Free soloist George King

    Shard freeclimber faces court case over breach of injunction

    George King to appear at Royal Courts of Justice after scaling the 72-storey skyscraper in July

September 2019

  • London skyscrapers, including the Shard and One Blackfriars.

    Weatherwatch
    Weatherwatch: glass skyscrapers are worst energy offenders

  • Emma Brockes

    The New York high life has given me a new fear – of elevators

    Emma Brockes

August 2019

  • City of London skyline

    City of London tightens rules on skyscrapers over wind tunnel fears

    Developers will have to modify designs deemed likely to affect cyclists and pedestrians

July 2019

  • The Petronas Towers, designed by César Pelli, in 2001, when the structure was the tallest building in the world.

    César Pelli obituary

    Distinguished architect who designed the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and One Canada Square in London
  • Simon Jenkins

    Sadiq Khan has rejected the Tulip. But that won’t save London’s skyline

    Simon Jenkins
    The mayor has been as bad as Boris Johnson in bowing down to speculators, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins
  • Hong Kong certainly has more skyscrapers than anyone else in the world, but that doesn’t necessarily make it the most vertical city.

    Extreme cities
    Which is the world's most vertical city?

    You might think of Hong Kong, given its famous skyscraper skyline, but by different measures of verticality other cities come out on top
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