The Albuquerque-based AIA Gold Medalist made his mark on New Mexico and the American Southwest—and beyond—with high-profile cultural commissions and academic projects.

As the demand for tall buildings endures, new considerations of form and function will have to emerge.

Forum: An ambitious city-building initiative expresses conflicting desires through architecture, writes Pansy Schulman.

Looking at a handful of projects from the 1920s through 1940s, Suzanne Stephens traces shifting attitudes toward tall buildings in architectural criticism.

There's a new "world's second tallest" building, in Malysia, while the one vying for first place—the Jeddah Tower—resumes work.

This month's issue of RECORD looks at the latest crop of tall and supertall buildings rising around the globe.

One Za'abeel—designed by Japan's oldest architecture firm, Nikken Sekkei—raises the bar in a city full of pastiche towers.

A carefully considered response to its urban context, 8 Bishopsgate's stepped and subtly rotated volumes preserve views of historic sites.

The 126-foot-long light installation on the underside of the project's sky bridge encourages connection to the cosmos.

Foster + Partners' commercial tower on New York's fanciest boulevard combines old-school grandeur with flexible function.