American Skyscrapers Architecture, USA Tower Buildings, United States of America Architects
American Skyscrapers Architecture
Key US Tower Developments – Tall Buildings in the USA
post updated May 4, 2021
US Skyscraper Architecture
We’ve selected what we feel are the key examples of US Skyscrapers. We aim to include tower buildings / projects that are either of top quality or interesting, or ideally both.
We cover completed US Skyscrapers, new building designs and architecture competitions across the United States of America. The focus is on contemporary US towers but information on older buildings in the USA is also welcome.
We have 3 pages of American Skyscraper Architecture selections with links to many individual project pages.
American Skyscraper Buildings: news + key projects
American Skyscraper Architecture : A-J
American Skyscrapers : K-Z (this page)
Recent Skyscraper Designs in the USA, alphabetical:
American Skyscraper Buildings
Major Skyscraper Designs in the USA, alphabetical:
Louisville skyscraper design
Design: REX
picture : PRNewsFoto/Museum Plaza
LVMH Building, USA
Design: Christian de Portzamparc
photo : Wade Zimmerman
MoMA Tower, New York
Design: Ateliers Jean Nouvel
image © Ateliers Jean Nouvel
New York Times Building, New York
Design: Renzo Piano BW with FXFOWLE
photo by David Sundberg/Esto
One Bryant Park, New York
Design: Cook + Fox Architects
photo © Jock Pottle, Esto for Cook+Fox Architects
One Liberty Plaza, New York
Design: Skidmore Owings & Merrill (SOM)
photo © Andrew McRae
Time Warner Center, USA
Design: Skidmore Owings & Merrill
photograph © Andrew McRae
World Trade Center towers, New York
Design: various architects
image : RSHP, Team Macarie
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Location: USA
US Skyscraper Buildings
Key American Skyscraper Buildings, no links, alphabetical:
Lever Building, New York
Date built: 1952
Skidmore Owings & Merrill (SOM) Architects
Lever Building
Marina City – ‘Corncob towers’, Chicago
Date built: 1967
Design: Bertrand Goldberg
Mixed-use development
One Chase Manhattan Plaza, New York
Date built: 1960
Design: Gordon Bunschaft / SOM
Pan Am Building, New York
Date built: 1963
Design: Walter Gropius with Emery Roth & Sons and Pietro Belluschi
renamed Metlife Building
Penzoil Place, Houston, Texas
Date built: 1975
Philip Johnson Architect
36 storey skyscrapers, office space
PPG Place, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Date built: 1984
Philip Johnson and John Burgee
One PPG Place, 40-storey office building – PPG Industries headquarters
Rockefeller Center, New York
Date built: 1940
Raymond Hood, Architect
Rockefeller Center New York
Seagram Building 375 Park Avenue, New York
Date built: 1958
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Architect; Philip Johnson
Seagram Building
Sears Tower, Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois
Date built: 1973
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
Sears Tower
The Trump International Hotel and Tower, downtown Chicago
Adrian Smith, Skidmore, Owings and Merrill
Trump International Hotel Tower
92 storeys: 2nd tallest skyscraper in USA
Woolworth Building, New York
Date built: 1913
Cass Gilbert, Architect
241m high, one of the first New York skyscrapers
World Trade Center – site, New York
Date built: 1973; destroyed 2001
Minoru Yamasaki, Emery Roth & Sons
World Trade Center building
World Financial Center, New York
Date built: 1986
Cesar Pelli Architect
W.R. Grace Building, New York
Date built: 1974
Skidmore Owings & Merrill
Tall Building Designs
Buildings / photos for the American Skyscraper Architecture page welcome
