20 October 2018

Riyadh: The Metamorphosis of a City From Centerless to Polycentric

Fernando Pérez, IDOM

Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, is a city of six million people, dominated by the automobile and laid out in a pattern of centerless,...

01 February 2018

The Global Tall Building Picture: Impact of 2017

CTBUH Staff, CTBUH

In 2017, 144 buildings of 200 meters’ height or greater were completed. This is the fourth record-breaking year in a row, and it brings the...

01 December 2016

Stack Effect in High-Rise Buildings: A Review

Sergey Mijorski, SoftSim Consult Ltd.; Stefano Cammelli, BMT Fluid Mechanics Ltd.

This technical paper presents a detailed review of the stack effect phenomenon and of the associated implications pertaining to the design and construction of high-rise...

26 October 2015

Iconic Office Tower Propels Saudi Arabia into the New Global Century: Challenges and Innovations

Roger Soto, HOK; Basem Al-Shihabi, Omrania & Associates

As the centerpiece of the King Abdullah Financial District, the Capital Market Authority (CMA) Tower is evidence of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s economic diversification...

26 October 2015

A Tale of Towers and Cities: A Contextual Approach to Vertical Urbanism

Louis Becker & Julian Chen, Henning Larsen Architects

While the ever increasing global interchange of capitals and ideas have created immense opportunities and growth in cities around the world, the physical manifestation of...

31 December 2014

Year in Review: Tall Trends of 2014

Daniel Safarik, Antony Wood, Marty Carver & Marshall Gerometta, CTBUH

An All-Time Record 97 Buildings of 200 Meters or Higher Completed in 2014 and 2014 showed further shifts towards Asia, and also surprising developments in...

16 September 2014

Sky Bridges – Pedestrian Circulation Through the Urban Fabric

Bashar Kayali & Michelle Bacellar, Al Ghurair Construction

Interconnecting sky bridges provide the building occupants and pedestrians an alternative to using vehicles as a way of transport in the urban fabric. In extreme...

16 September 2014

Human Scale in Vertical Urbanism

Sudhir Jambhekar & Edward Mayer, FXFOWLE Architects

As global cities continue their horizontal sprawl, climate change bears down on our finite natural resources, and energy costs and population growth soar, it is...

16 September 2014

Examining King Abdullah Financial District (KAFD)

Julian Chen, Jacob Kurek & Claude Bøjer Godefroy, Henning Larsen Architects

The quality of space between buildings has become increasingly determinative in the success of any new urban district. This paper explores the viability in creating...