Trends, Drivers and Challenges in Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat

摘要

This paper outlines the major influences on tall building design in the early stages of the 21stCentury. At this unprecedented time in terms of the scale and number of tall buildings being builtglobally, the paper charts some of the recent trends in tall buildings, and suggests some of thedrivers. It also looks to the growing challenges in the future and, through design-research casestudies undertaken by the author at the Universities of Nottingham, UK and the Illinois Institute ofTechnology, Chicago, suggests design responses to face some of these challenges.