India - The Skyscraper Center

03 April 2023

Year in Review: Tall Trends of 2022: World Surpasses 2,000 Buildings of 200 Meters or Greater Height

CTBUH Staff

This report shows that 147 buildings of 200 meters’ height or greater were completed in 2022, a 25 percent increase from 2021, when 118 such...

30 April 2018

Cyclone-Glazing and Façade Resilience for the Asia-Pacific Region: Market and Code Study

Angela Mejorin, Dario Trabucco, CTBUH; Reisuke Nakada, Malvinder Singh Ruprai & Ingo Stelzer, Trosifol World of Interlayers

This paper summarizes the Stage 1 results of the CTBUH Research Division’s project “Cyclone-Glazing and Facade Resilience for the Asia-Pacific Region.” The project was possible...

02 June 2017

Transport and the Megacity: Improving Vitality with Connectivity

John Prevc, Future Spaces Foundation

There is no easy answer to ensuring the world’s rapid urban population growth is managed sustainably and in a manner that promotes economic growth, social...

17 October 2016

Changing Market Forces and Their Impacts on Tall Building Planning and Design: A Case Study

Ro Shroff, CallisonRTKL

This paper articulates how changing market conditions and other variables impact the design process for tall buildings in general and a 355m tall luxury residential...

17 October 2016

Ecosystem-Driven Value Creation for Smarter, Digitalized Buildings

Jukka Salmikuukka, Tomio Pihkala & Samu Salmelin, KONE

Digitization is reshaping industries and driving the rise of new business models, with new ways of working and new entrants rewriting the rules in the...

17 October 2016

Megacities: Setting the Scene

Daniel Safarik, Shawn Ursini & Antony Wood; Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat

The rise of the megacity presents unprecedented opportunities to understand the human urbanization phenomenon, and to observe the effects of multicore, polycentric cities growing together...

17 October 2016

Preventing Mega Disasters in Megacities - Code & Construction Challenges in the Indian Subcontinent

Steven Baldridge & Anantha Chittur, Baldridge & Associates Structural Engineering, Inc.

Located adjacent to China, the Indian Subcontinent is also experiencing amazing concentrated urban growth facilitated in part by high-rise commercial and residential construction. These new...

17 October 2016

Sustainable (Vertical) Urbanism, Grounded - Three Case Studies

Jay Berman, Pei Cobb Freed & Partners

Tall buildings in an urban context are not neutral: their presence is amplified by large populations; the consolidation of real estate; contrast with adjacent streets,...

17 October 2016

The SocialScraper

Carlos Gomez, CRG Architects

Future projects should be adapted to local needs and requirements where they are to be built, using appropriate materials and construction systems for each location....

17 October 2016

Transport and the Megacity: Improving Vitality with Connectivity

John Prevc, Make Architects

The world’s urban population already accounts for more than half of the total population and is predicted to rise to 66% by 2050. Given that...

28 July 2016

Debating Tall: Should Tall Buildings be Demolished For Non-Safety Reasons?

Arthur Wellington, Thornton Tomasetti; Girish Dravid, Sterling Engineering

In several developing nations recently, skyscrapers were found to have been constructed in violation of local laws, and have been ordered demolished. In some cases,...

26 October 2015

Ambitious Mumbai Project – Cluster Development for large scale Redevelopment of Urban Habitat

Abbas Master & Girish Dravid, Saifee Burhani Upliftment Trust

Urban decay is plaguing a majority of the world’s great cities. These cities, established at the turn of 20th century, have buildings and the accompanying...

26 October 2015

Logistical and Structural Design Challenges of the World’s Tallest Statue

William Howell & Jairam Panch, Turner Construction; Mandar Nadkarni, Meinhardt; James Wisniewski, Michael Graves & Associates

The Statue of Unity, a statue of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, is slated to be the world’s tallest statue at 182 meters in height. It will...

26 October 2015

Successful Sky Life

Paul Scott, Make

There is no doubt more tall buildings are required to accommodate global population growth. However, the taller a building, the greater the disconnect between occupants...

06 November 2014

Dream Deferred: Unfinished Tall Buildings

CTBUH Research

Without big dreams, there would be no tall buildings. Conceiving, financing, designing, and constructing a skyscraper is no simple feat, even under the best of...

06 November 2014

The Competition for the Tallest Skyscraper - Implications for Global Ethics and Economics

Christopher Michaelson, University of St. Thomas

An iconic skyscraper has aesthetic significance that may have meaning for other aspects of human experience – serving, for example, as an expression of cultural...

16 September 2014

Psycho-Analysis of Tall Building Habitants in Mumbai

Vinda Dravid, Sterling Engineering Consultancy Services

India is poised to embrace high-rise buildings as it leaves behind traditional low-rises to make room for the growing population. Due to the re-development boom,...

16 September 2014

Vertical Reality – How To Design Viable Vertical Urbanism

Paul Scott, Make Architects

In many ways, the technical design of tall buildings is straightforward. The real challenge is how to create successful vertical urbanism that forms part of...

21 September 2012

For Everyone a Sky Garden

Jaron Lubin, Safdie Architects

A key principle of Moshe Safdie’s work over the last four decades has been to develop livable collective spaces within dense urban environments. This paper...

19 September 2012

The Design and Construction of the Palais Royale, Mumbai

Joseph Colaco, CBM Engineers; Girish Dravid, Sterling Engineering Consultancy Services; Vikas Kasliwal, Shree Ram Urban Infrastructure

This paper describes the design and construction of the Palais Royale Residential Tower in downtown Mumbai, India (the tower is 325 m. tall from the...

10 October 2011

High Rise SKY Towers, Mumbai - Construction Challenges

Amitabh Kumar & Amit Singhai, Indiabulls Real Estate Limited

Sky Towers consists of four high rises - Sky, Sky Forest (Twin Towers) and SKY Suites, 257 to 300+ meters height, under construction in Mumbai,...

13 April 2011

Tall and Urban: An Analysis of Global Population and Tall Buildings

CTBUH Research

Tall buildings are spreading across the globe at an ever-increasing rate. This study demonstrates the relationship between population and tall buildings across those countries and...

04 January 2011

Debating Tall: Residence Antilia, Mumbai

Sourav Dasgupta, Skyscrapercity.com; Mayank Gandhi, Remaking of Mumbai Federation

Does Residence Antilia, the "world's tallest and most expensive private home" represent a positive addition to the city of Mumbai's skyline?

01 November 2010

The Remaking of Mumbai (II) A CTBUH–IIT Educational Design Studio

Antony Wood, CTBUH

The CTBUH–IIT 2010 spring semester student design project undertaken between January and May 2010 was a continuation of the 2009 studio, thanks to the continued...

01 February 2010

The Remaking of Mumbai: A CTBUH-IIT Collaborative Architectural Design Studio

Antony Wood, CTBUH

The five towers rise up from the urban plane, connected by a sinuous, landscaped bridge that starts at the ground and works its way up,...

03 March 2008

Addressing India’s Local Concerns With A Sustainable Approach To Building Tall

Sudhir Jambhekar & Pete Weingarten, Fox & Fowle Architects

In developing countries, places where builders are routinely confronted with challenges inherent to poor infrastructure, obstacles effecting constructability, and a lack of political will and...

16 October 2005

Tall Buildings in the Urban Context of Dhaka City

Asif Iqbal, Bangladesh Consultants

The history and present status of development of tall buildings in Dhaka City is presented in the background of its evolution and growth. It is...

11 February 2000

Asian Urban Futures

Chris Abel, University of Sydney

Chris Abel writes on the development of the future Asian megacities and their urban landscapes.