Tall Buildings

Sculpting the skyline

ZHA’s tall buildings are designed to be integral parts of the urban fabric from street to sky. Our designs are grounded by generous public spaces that harmonise with their surroundings; they rise with elegance and purpose to sculpt the skyline. 

Photograph by Virgile Simon Bertrand

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Connecting to the community

Plazas at ground level connect with public areas of the city and flow into interior communal spaces, integrating our tall buildings with their adjacent neighbourhoods and contributing to the community at large. We embed adaptability into our buildings, creating flexible spaces that respond to the changing needs and evolving lifestyles of inhabitants.  

All our tall buildings

11 projects

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One Thousand Museum

One Thousand Museum is a 62-storey residential tower opposite Museum Park in Miami. With views across Biscayne Bay, this popular 30-acre park was redeveloped in 2013 as one of downtown Miami's primary public spaces and includes the city's new art and science museums.

Photograph by Hufton + Crow

CMA CGM Headquarters

Rising in a metallic curving arc that slowly lifts and accelerates skywards into the dramatic vertical geometry of its revolutionary forms. With its ultimate coordinate 142.8 metres above the ground, a gateway to the city from both land and sea, an iconic vertical element that interacts with Marseille’s other significant landmarks.

Photograph by Hufton + Crow

Generali Tower

Generali Tower

Generali Tower is within the CityLife masterplan that has redeveloped Milan’s abandoned trade fair grounds following the fair’s relocation to Rho Pero in 2005.

Photograph by Virgile Simon Bertrand

The Henderson

Developed on the world’s most valuable site purchased by Henderson Land, the 36-storey tower's design shelters new civic plazas enveloped by nature, creating an urban oasis in the centre of the city. Accommodating enhanced workplace flexibility, the building’s smart management system creates a contactless pathway for all occupants, eliminating all contact with communal surfaces.

Render by Negativ

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Mercury Tower

The renovation and redevelopment of Mercury House integrates residential apartments and a boutique hotel within Malta’s most dynamic urban environment. Creating new public spaces and amenities for the island’s residents and visitors, the design responds to Paceville’s key urban challenges by investing in its civic realm and increasing its limited housing supply.

Courtesy of Brick Visual

Tower C at Shenzhen Bay Super Headquarters Base

The design of Tower C integrates the city and nature within its central green axis with the transit orientated development (TOD) of Shenzhen’s new spine, creating a ‘superscape’ that will become a tower of the future within the Super Headquarters Base.

Photograph by Hufton + Crow

Leeza SOHO

Located on Lize Road in southwest Beijing, Leeza SOHO tower anchors the new Fengtai business district; a growing financial and transport hub between the city centre and the recently opened Beijing Daxing International Airport to the south. 

Render by Bloomimages

Symphony Tower

Located a short distance from Downtown Dubai and the Dubai Design District, Symphony Tower is situated within the new Horizon district of Dubai between the city's Meydan Racecourse and the waters of Ras Al Khor.

Daxia Tower

Demarcating the centre of Xi’an’s business district, Daxia Tower’s gently curving silhouette is accentuated by layers of patterned glazing and dramatic atriums that bring natural light deep into its floorplates. Creating a cascade of planted interior terraces that echo mountainside waterfalls, each atrium gives panoramic views over the historic city and the growing high-tech zone.

Courtesy of ZHA

Central Bank of Iraq

Rising from the sloping banks of the Tigris River in Baghdad, the design for the new headquarters of the Central Bank of Iraq (CBI) conveys the core values at the heart of the institution: Solidity, Stability and Sustainability.

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