450 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne

An iconic, mixed-use development situated on the south side of Blackfriars Bridge overlooking the River Thames.

At 43 storeys, Strata SE1 was the tallest building in south London when it was completed. It is home to more than 1,000 people and is the first ever building with wind turbines integrated into the building form itself.

Principal Place will be a major new mixed-use development on the City and Shoreditch border in EC2, London. The development comprises a mixture of uses, including a contemporary Grade A commercial office building and a landmark residential tower set as well as a 0.5 acre public piazza.

Rooms with views in one of Manhattan’s tallest residential buildings

The Dalian East Harbour is a residential development in the rapidly expanding city of Dalian, a popular tourist destination in northeast China.

Apart from its extreme slenderness, it is perhaps the simplicity of 432 Park Avenue’s structure that has already made it a favourite landmark on the skyline. Designed by Rafael Viñoly, the building is a perfect square, with sides of 28.5m, and this regularity is echoed by the 3m x 3m windows punched into the frame, six on each side of the building.

56 Leonard is one of the most distinctive landmarks on the Lower Manhattan skyline. The building is a staggered series of irregular boxes, with cantilevers ranging from 10ft to 25ft, designed by Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron – the practice behind the ‘Bird’s Nest’ Olympic stadium in Beijing. When complete, it will provide 145 luxury apartments in the TriBeCa district, conceived by the architect as “houses stacked in the sky”.

With its striking rippled facade resembling draped fabric, 8 Spruce Street is an iconic landmark on the New York skyline. The 265 m tower provides 903 high-end apartments offering panoramic views across the city. It sits above a six-storey podium including a public school and a clinic for the New York Downtown Hospital.

Construction is underway on a Four Seasons hotel, restaurant and private residences at 30 Park Place in Tribeca, Manhattan, New York City between Park Place and Barclay Street at the north and south respectively and Church Street.

53W53, formerly known as the MoMA Tower (or Torre Verre), is not just a super-slender tower but a work of art – as befits a building that will sit above New York’s Museum of Modern Art, and even house 50,000ft2 of additional gallery space in its lower floors.