Twisting to the sky with 128 floors that make the Shanghai Tower one of the tallest in the world, the design from Gensler embraces an inner glass façade and a twirling exterior.

And a new second-tallest building in the world is set to be finished this year—it’s the angular Merdeka 118 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and measures a megatall 2,233 feet tall at the tippy top.

A quick glance at the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat's list of the 100 tallest buildings under construction shows that most are all-glass, steel and concrete-framed skyscrapers ...

Billions of birds collide with glass buildings — but architecture has solutions Paul Dobraszczyk, University College London Fri, December 15, 2023 at 1:30 AM UTC ...

Although not particularly tall by contemporary standards, the building’s almost unbroken glass facade presents a problem for birds, most notably at night when the brilliantly lit interiors cause ...

Since its tallest buildings were completed in the 1980s the Dallas skyline has remained fairly consistent. At least on the outside. Within the walls of Dallas’ glass and steel behemoths things ...