Recently, The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) announced a list of the "50 most influential high-rise buildings in the past 50 years."
△ From left to right: Lotte World Tower, Leadenhall Building, Shanghai Center , One World Trade Center, The Shard, AMA Plaza
As stated on the association’s official website, in the past 50 years of development, high-rise Architecture is no longer just a symbol of wealth for a few capitalists, but has spread to cities around the world. The architectural form has gradually transformed from repetitive office buildings to "vertical cities" with rich indoor and outdoor spaces and various facade materials. Internationalism and , postmodernism and came and went respectively. Nowadays, parametric and contextualism are prevalent, and environmental sustainability and the cultural and economic longevity of buildings are taken seriously... The development of high-rise buildings is not a simple linear process, but a composite one. develop. A review of the past 50 years will inspire us into the next 50 years.
The following are the 50 most influential high-rise buildings in the past 50 years as rated by CTBUH (in no particular order):
. One Central Park
Design: Ateliers Jean Nouvel, Urbis Pty Ltd, PTW Architects
2014, Sydney, Australia
The solar reflective device is protruded from the taller building through a cantilever structure, allowing the shadow area between the two floors to be illuminated and forming a unique architectural shape.
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. One World Trade Center
Design: SOM
2014, New York, USA
This building is now the tallest building in New York, replacing the World Trade Center that collapsed in the "9·11" incident in New York. The building's height, proportions, rooftop antennae and knife-cut appearance will all evoke memories of the building it replaces.
△ ©James Ewing
. Taipei 101
Design: Li Zuyuan Associate Architects
2004, Taipei, China
The building was the world's tallest building from 2004 to 2010. The building utilizes low-lumen light fixtures, custom lighting control systems and smart energy management controls.
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. Willis Tower (former name: Sears Tower )
Design: SOM
1974, Chicago, United States
The building was the world's tallest building from 1974 to 1998. Its tube structure influenced Burj Khalifa Many later super high-rise buildings, including .
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. PARKROYAL Hotel on Pickering
Design: WOHA Architects
2013, Singapore
The building’s garden platform draws inspiration from topographic landscapes such as rice fields, and the total green area is the building footprint. 215%. This shows that even as cities grow taller and denser, green space is not necessarily sacrificed.
△ ©Patrick Bingham Hall
. Jin Mao Tower
Design: SOM, Shanghai Architectural Design Institute
1999, Shanghai, China
The building integrates modern office buildings, five-star hotels, convention and exhibition centers, entertainment, shopping malls and other facilities, with inspiring styling From the pagoda. The upper atrium of the building runs through one-third of the tower's height.
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. Contemporary City of All Nations
Design: Steven Holl Architects, Beijing Capital Engineering Architectural Design Co., Ltd.
2009, Beijing, China
The building complex has a total of 9 towers, connected by 8 air passages, forming a three-dimensional comprehensive community.
△ Source: Steven Holl Architects official website
. 4 Times Square (former name: Condé Nast Building)
Design: Fox Fowle
1999, New York, USA
When the building was completed, it was hailed as the greenest high-rise building in the world. The building utilizes gas-fired absorption chillers, as well as high-performance thermal insulation and solar shading curtain walls. Below the building is Times Square in New York.
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. Building 30 Saint-Marie-Aix
Design: Foster + Partners
2004, London, UK
The building is known as the "Gherkin" due to its appearance. Its construction symbolizes the beginning of a new wave of high-rise buildings in London.
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0. 333 Wacker Drive
Design: KPF, Perkins + Will
1983, Chicago, USA
The building has a curved green glass curtain wall on the side facing the Chicago River, which can reflect the clouds in the sky and the ripples of the water.
△ ©Duane Schermerhorn
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1. 550 Madison Avenue (formerly known as: ATT Building, Sony Building)
Design: Johnson/Buigee Architects
1983, New York, United States
This project is the representative work of Philip Johnson and is also a classic work of postmodernist high-rise buildings.
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2. 601 Lexington (formerly Citigroup Center )
Design: Stubbins Associates, Emery Roth Sons
1977, New York, United States
This building is the first in the United States to use tuned mass dampers. Its distinctive 45-degree roof was originally intended to be used as an apartment terrace, but was later abandoned because the roof position was not conducive to solar panels collecting sunlight.
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3. 875 North Michigan Avenue (formerly known as: John Hancock Center)
Design: SOM
1969, Chicago, USA
The surface of the building is supported by a solid X-shaped frame, which increases the flexible use area of the building's internal plane.
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4. Burj Khalifa
Design: SOM, Hyder Consulting
2010, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
The building is currently the tallest building in the world, reaching a height of 829.8 meters, redefining the possibilities of super high-rise building design and engineering.
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5. CCTV Headquarters Building
Design: OMA, East China Architectural Design Institute
2012, Beijing, China
The building is in a folded ring shape, and its cantilever length reaches 75 meters. The diagonal structure of the building's surface becomes denser in areas of greater stress and looser in areas requiring less support.
△ ©Philippe Ruault
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6. Al Bahar Tower
Design: Aedas UK, Diar Consult
2012, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Opening and closing umbrella-like elements on the building's facade respond to solar radiation. The design is inspired by the wooden lattice screens of traditional Arabic architecture.
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7. AMA Plaza (former name: IBM Plaza)
Design: C.F. Murphy Associates, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
1972, Chicago, United States
This building is a classic of International Style architecture, showing Mies' rigorous construction logic.
△ ©Peter J. Sieger
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8. Shanghai Center
Design: Gensler, Tongji University Architectural Design (Group) Co., Ltd.
2015, Shanghai, China
With a total height of 632 meters, the building is the tallest building in China and the second tallest building in the world. . The architectural shape is in a spiral shape. A towering triangular side court is formed between the double curtain walls, containing the public space.
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9. Shanghai World Financial Center
Design: KPF, Mori Building, Irie Miyake Architects and Engineers, East China Architectural Design Institute
2008, Shanghai, China
The main body of the building is a square column, with two giant arched slopes gradually narrowing upward to meet at the top. Square openings at the top of the building reduce wind pressure on the building.
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0. Lakeside East Bank Water Building
Design: Studio Gang, Loewenberg Architects
2009, Chicago, United States
The building features a series of curved outdoor platforms that undulate on the building's surface. They have both viewing and sunshading functions.
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1. 1 Bligh Street
Design: ingenhoven architects, Architectus
2011, Sydney, Australia
The building plan is oval, using double-glazed curtain walls and external louvres. The building incorporates sustainability measures, including wastewater recycling, which reduces the building's need for potable water from the city by 90%.
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2. Bahrain World Trade Center
Design: Atkins
2008, Bahrain Manama
The building is the world's first skyscraper to integrate wind turbines with the building on a large scale. The two towers are connected by beams that support giant wind turbines.
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2. Bank of America Tower
Design: Cook + Fox Architects, Adamson Associates
2009, New York, USA
The building embodies the concepts of environmental protection, energy saving and humanization in the overall design and details, and has obtained LEED Platinum certification.
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△ ©Ryan Browne
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4. Bank of China Building
Design: Pei Cobb Freed Partners, Li Jingxun and Lei Huanting Architects
1990, Hong Kong, China
When the building was completed, it was the tallest building in Asia. The building's appearance is prismatic, like rising bamboo shoots, symbolizing strength, vitality, growth and enterprising spirit.
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5. Vertical forest
Design: Boeri Studio
2014, Milan, Italy. There are 480 large trees, 250 small trees, 11,000 ground cover plants, and 5,000 shrubs in the
building, which is equivalent to 1 hectare of forest coverage.
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