Research Guides: Tall Buildings: Journals

Online Journal Articles

Mesh-Mould: Robotically Fabricated Spatial Meshes as Reinforced Concrete Formwork
Normal Hack
Willi Viktor Lauer
Architectural Design; May2014, Vol. 84 Issue 3, p44-53, 10p
Reinterpreting Traditional Chinese Architecture in the Office Building and Skyscraper: The Architecture of C. Y. Lee
Hsing-Chen Cheng
Chih-Ming Shih
Journal of Architectural & Planning Research; Autumn2008, Vol. 25 Issue 3, p181-202, 22p
Weighted Metrics: Synthesizing Elements for Tall Building Design
David Shook, Mark Sarkisian
ACADIA 12: Synthetic Digital Ecologies [Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA)
San Francisco 18-21 October, 2012), pp. 457-466
A Computer Process for Investigating Wind Power Production in Building Integrated Wind Turbines
CAAD - Cities - Sustainability [5th International Conference Proceedings of the Arab Society for Computer Aided Architectural Design
Fez (Morocco), 19-21 October 2010, pp. 213-220
Reach for the Sky
Layla Dawson
Architectural Review; January 2009, Vol. 225, p88-88, 1p
Glyph Notes
Michael Sorkin
Metropolis: Architecture Design; Jul/Aug2016, p194-205, 12p
Reversal of Fortune: Sorting out contradictions in the work of Louis Sullivan, father of the skyscraper and innovator of beautiful ornament
James Trilling
American Scholar; Winter2012, Vol. 81 Issue 1, p103-107, 5p, 2 Black and White Photographs
Rocker-Lange Architects: Shanghai Lilong Tower Urbanism, Shanghai, China
Christian J. Lange
Architectural Design; Nov2015, Vol. 85 Issue 6, p76-79, 4p
The Evolution of Tall Building in the Gulf: From the Sensational to the Sensitive
Terri Meyer Boake
Architectural Design; Jan2015, Vol. 85 Issue 1, p54-71
Branching Up
Alex Hoyt
Architect; Mar2013, Vol. 102 Issue 3, p62-67, 4p

Print Journals

Rethinking the skyscraper: A vertical theory of urban design
Author: Yeang, Ken
Journal: RIBA journal (1993)
Date: 11/01/2012
Volume: 119 Issue: 11 Page: 26
Peter Macapia: Gross Topology: CA Network Studies
Peter Macapia
A + U: Architecture & Urbanism
5/01/2010, p28-29, 2p
Jean Nouvel: Tour de Verre
Jean Nouvel
A + U: Architecture & Urbanism;
5/01/2010, p124-125
Make: Kite Tower
A + U: Architecture & Urbanism; October 2005, Issue 421, p64-67, 4p
SOM's Pearl River Tower
Russell Fortmeyer
Architectural Record; Oct 2006, Vol. 194 Issue 12, p172-173, 2p
New Skycrapers in Megacities on a Warming Globe
Harvard Design Magazine; Spring/Summer2007, Issue 26, p5-45, 41p
World View
Ruth Slavid
Architects' Journal; August 31 2006, Vol. 224 Issue 7, p24-25, 2p
Searching for the Limits: “The Building Type Skyscraper at the Beginning of the 21st Century”
Andres Lepik
Claire Bonney
A + U: Architecture & Urbanism; October 2005, Issue 421, p16-25, 10p
The Mile High Club
World Architecture; September 1999, Issue 79, p64-77, 14p
Aesthetics as Politics: The Khaleesi Tower on West 57th Street, NYC
Architectural Design; Nov/Dec2016, Vol. 86 Issue 6, p26-33, 2p
Grey or green: the international community is still divided on whether building tall is an appropriate approach to sustainability for existing and future urban centers
Anthony Wood
Urban land, 2008 June, v.67, n.6, p.64-70, photographs, charts
The Height of Sustainability
Sudip Bose
Preservation; March/April 2010, Vol. 62 Issue 2, p20-27, 8p
Height: Between Possibility and Responsibility
Jeremy Melvin
Architectural Review; May93, Vol. 224, p38-41, 4p
London's high-rise free-for-all
Rowan Moore
Architects' Journal; 4/4/2014, Vol. 239 Issue 13, p36-39, 4p
Ground control
Ellis Woodman
Architects' Journal; 4/18/2014, Vol. 239 Issue 15, p40-47, 8p

Journals

CTBUH Journal on JSTOR
The CTBUH Journal is an official periodic publication of the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat. The Journal aims to document and publicize groundbreaking work taking place in the many fields related to tall buildings and urban development. In addition to technical papers, each Journal contains a number of features; global tall buildings news round-up, case studies, tall buildings in numbers, calendar listing of events, CTBUH news, book and exhibition reviews, etc.