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The top skyscrapers: Quick notes
Continuing our Review of 2025, we look back at the 10 most significant skyscrapers from the year, including a pair of towers in Argentina and a New York supertall.
Ferrocarril de Cuernavaca 780, Mexico, by HEMAA
In Mexico City, HEMAA created a skinny, wedge-shaped skyscraper that recalls the Flatiron Building in New York. The form of the 13-storey building, which has a black, structural steel facade, was dictated by its site between a street and the remnants of the Ferrocarril de Cuernavaca Railroad.
“It required an act of imagination to envision the emergence of a graceful tower that would deftly adapt to the challenging terrain,” the HEMAA team said.
“Comparable to tenacious plants thriving amidst adversity, this tower would unfold, defying expectations.”
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Huergo 475, Argentina, by Adamo Faiden
This green-pigmented concrete tower, which features a series of cantilevers, was one of the year’s most distinctive skyscrapers. The residential building in Buenos Aires was designed to both be monolithic and to blend in with the cityscape.
“The exposed concrete facade serves a structural role while simultaneously defining the project’s identity,” studio co-founder Marcelo Faiden told Dezeen.
“To create a monolithic appearance, a grooved-textured formwork was designed, visually softening the impact of the concrete pouring process.”
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Vilo Tower, Argentina, by Rafael Viñoly Architects
Also in Buenos Aires, architecture studio Rafael Viñoly Architects created a distinctive, 16-storey skyscraper featuring stacked spaces with double-height floors.
Designed as the headquarters for airport operator Corporación América, the tower is wrapped in a facade made of translucent 7.15 metre-by-2.2 metre glass panels.
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Photo by Nigel Young
270 Park Avenue by Foster + Partners, New York
Perhaps the most significant skyscraper completed this year was in the USA’s skyscraper capital, New York. Designed by UK studio Foster + Partners as the headquarters for financial company JPMorgan Chase, 270 Park Avenue was the tallest building that finished this year.
The 1,388-feet-tall (423.1-metre) skyscraper features a stepped-back design that echoes early 20th-century skyscrapers and sits on top of massive columns that fan up from the pushed-back entry facades.
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The One Flagler, USA, by SOM
Informed by Florida’s tropical modernism, The One Flagler in West Palm Beach is wrapped in white concrete facades, designed to invoke trellises.
Located alongside a historic beaux-arts Scientist church, the building was designed to relate to the surrounding buildings and become a landmark.
“At its base, One Flagler carefully complements the historic beaux-arts church, and at the top, it creates a bold new beacon on this coastline site,” said SOM partner Chris Cooper.
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Ziraat Bank Headquarters, Turkey, by KPF
In Istanbul, KPF completed a pair of glazed skyscrapers as the centrepiece of the Istanbul International Financial Center.
Rising 40- and 46-storey-high, the skyscrapers contain the headquarters for a bank, while the connected podium contains an auditorium and shopping centre.
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Yachthouse, Brazil, by Pininfarina
Another pair of skyscrapers that drew global attention were the twin Yachthouse towers in the southern Brazilian city of Balneário Camboriú, where a flurry of construction was examined in a Dezeen feature earlier this year. At 294 metres high, the towers are the tallest buildings in the country.
“With Yachthouse, the objective was never just to build the tallest building – it was to create an architectural icon that embodies performance, elegance, and innovation,” Pininfarina chief architect officer Samuele Sordi told Dezeen.
“The impressive height is a direct result of this ambition, offering unparalleled views, an immersive luxury experience, and a striking presence in the skyline.”
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AGE360, Brazil, by Triptyque and Architects Office
Also in Brazil, French-Brazilian architecture studio Triptyque and São Paolo firm Architects Office completed the 124-metre-tall AGE360 skyscraper, which was longlisted for a Dezeen Award.
Located in the Mossunguê neighbourhood of Curitiba, the skyscraper is wrapped in a load-bearing concrete “exoskeleton”.
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Butterfly, Canada, by Revery Architecture
In Vancouver, Revery Architecture created a 178.6-metre-high skyscraper with cylindrical forms that incorporates an early 20th-century church into its base.
The lobby of the 57-story skyscraper, which contains apartments, is directly connected to the church through a floor-to-ceiling glass structure on the ground level called the Galleria.
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China Merchants Bank Headquarters, China, by Foster + Partners
The 388-metre-tall China Merchants Bank Headquarters is the latest supertall skyscraper to be built in Shenzen.
Designed by British architecture studio Foster + Partners, the tower has a distinctive appearance with six rounded forms covered in triangular glass panes rising to a central peak.
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