The skyscraper has a history extending back more than 120 years, but it entered a new phase of innovation and acceleration in the late 1960s.
The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat was founded in 1969 to embrace and interpret the rapid changes taking place in the field of high-rise design and engineering. Throughout its history, CTBUH has highlighted best practice examples of tall buildings that represented a significant change in thinking or technique, by means of Journal case studies, conference proceedings, and since 2002, the annual Awards program.
The tall buildings captured here are selected on the same criteria, through the combined input of the CTBUH Research and Data team, CTBUH Leaders, and a call to the member constituency at large. Each represents a milestone in the development of the typology, tracking the development of the tall building from a predominantly commercial office tower with repetitive floor plates, to a “vertical city” with the mix of uses, variation in façade materials, and variety of interior and exterior spaces implied by the title. Across these examples, we see the arrival and departure of the distinct International and Post-Modern styles, as well as the overlapping parametricism and contextualism that dominates the contemporary scene. We see the transition from symbols of North American corporate power to broadcasting devices for the arrival of entire cities and countries on the global stage. The importance of environmental sustainability takes on as important a role as cultural and economic longevity. And, as some of these skyscrapers hit the half-century mark, we see them aging gracefully, into new functions, sometimes radically changing appearance and even height. From this, we learn that the development of the skyscraper typology is not a simple case of linear hand-offs from one generation to the next; rather, it is an interpolating dialogue that will continue to inform and inspire us for the next 50 years and beyond.
De hoogbouwambities van verschillende Nederlandse steden reiken tot in de wolken. Zo wordt in Utrecht ‘eindelijk’ hoger dan de Domtoren (113 meter) gebouwd en is in Den Haag en Eindhoven ruimte voor meerdere torens die de skyline van die steden zal doen veranderen. Het is binnenstedelijke verdichting in de overtreffende trap. Steeds nadrukkelijker dringt de vraag zich op hoe we die sterk verdichte stadsdelen, en in het bijzonder die hoogbouw, bereikbaar houden >>> 
Klaas de Boer deinst er ook niet voor terug zijn ‘eigen’ Zuidas te noemen als voorbeeld van hoe je hoogbouw stedenbouwkundig goed inpast. ‘Op de Zuidas hebben we een schaakpatroon toegepast waarin hoogbouw is afgewisseld met laagbouw voor goed uitzicht, en bezonning en beschaduwing op een goed wijze tegen elkaar zijn afgewogen.’
The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat celebrated a crop of new buildings and urban developments around the world at its 17th Annual CTBUH Awards Program in Shenzhen. The CTBUH Awards Jury has now announced the winners across 20 award categories, including the top-billed “Best Tall Building Worldwide” distinction, which was given to 
Humanity has become obsessed with breaking its limits, creating new records only to break them again and again. In fact, our cities’ skylines have always been defined by those in power during every period in history. At one point churches left their mark, followed by public institutions and in the last few decades, it’s commercial skyscrapers that continue to stretch taller and taller.
De Gemeente Rotterdam maakt concrete afspraken met projectontwikkelaars en corporaties om de bouw van huizen te versnellen. Bouwplannen worden vooraf nauwkeurig onderzocht om zo snel en efficiënt mogelijk alle gemeentelijke procedures te doorlopen. Zodra plannen rond zijn, komen er geen wijzigingen meer die tot vertraging kunnen leiden. Ontwikkelaars en bouwers met een goed plan, komen sneller in aanmerking om te ontwikkelen als hiervoor gemeentegrond nodig is. De gemeente wil hiervoor het gronduitgiftebeleid aanpassen.
Either as singular outcroppings or as part of a bustling center, 
Op de hoogbouwkavel in Leidsche Rijn Centrum Noord komt het plan 
Rising high above the ground, 
Hoogbouw is hot