CTBUH Gold Member

Pelli Clarke & Partners

About

Member Since: 1994

Member Offices: New Haven

Website: http://www.pcparch.com/

From the World Financial Center in New York to the Petronas Towers in Malaysia and the International Finance Centre in Hong Kong, Pelli Clarke & Partners has had the great fortune to design many prestigious projects.

Their portfolio includes retail and mixed-​use projects, academic buildings, libraries, museums, research centers, residences and master plans, and they have served private clients, businesses, institutions and government agencies.

Their work has received critical acclaim and hundreds of design awards, including the American Institute of Architects’ Firm Award, the highest honor for an architectural practice. In 1995, the American Institute of Architects awarded Cesar Pelli the Gold Medal, its highest honor for an individual. In 2004, the firm was given the Aga Khan Award for Architecture for the Petronas Towers.

Fields of Expertise

Architecture; Interior Design; Urban Design

Buildings

Please note that all heights shown in italics/red are estimated heights. These have been calculated based on known floor counts for the building, then extrapolated through analyzing typically hundreds of buildings of the same function on this database that do have confirmed heights. The user should be aware that non-standard building features, such as significant spires or raised entrances / podiums, may affect the accuracy of these estimations.

RANK
Name
Status

Completed

Architecturally Topped Out

Structurally Topped Out

Under Construction

On Hold

Proposed

Vision

Never Completed

Demolished

Competition Entry

Canceled

Proposed Renovation

Under Renovation

Renovated

Under Demolition

Height
1 Petronas Twin Tower 1
451.9 m / 1,483  ft
2 Petronas Twin Tower 2
451.9 m / 1,483  ft
3 Two International Finance Centre
412 m / 1,352  ft
4 Xiaobailou Union Plaza Tower 1
400 m / 1,312  ft
5 1 Corporate Avenue
376 m / 1,234  ft
6 Shanghai International Trade Center Tower 1
370 m / 1,214  ft
7 City Tower 1
358 m / 1,175  ft
8 Salesforce Tower
326.1 m / 1,070  ft
9 Mori JP Tower
325.2 m / 1,067  ft
10 The Landmark
324 m / 1,063  ft

Awards

Torre Mitikah

Award of Excellence: Torre Mitikah

Best Tall Building, by Region, Americas 2023

Ctbuh Leaders

Mariko Masuoka

Mariko Masuoka

CTBUH Awards Urban Habitat Jury, 2024

New Haven

Building Completions Timeline

Videos

31 October 2017

Interview: Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects

Fred Clarke, AĂŻcha Woods & Mark Shoemaker of Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects are interviewed by Chris Bentley during the 2017 CTBUH Australia Conference.

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Research

22 December 2023

Remembering Charles H. Thornton, 2012 Fazlur Khan Lifetime Achievement Awardee

This edition of Talking Tall is an interview from the CTBUH archives. The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat would like to remember Charles...

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Global News

05 July 2023

Two Structures in Tokyo Complex Are Completed

On 3 July, a completion ceremony was held to commemorate that the construction was completed for the 325.2-meter-high Mori JP Tower and the Azabudai Hills...

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Associated companies

Please note that all heights shown in italics/red are estimated heights. These have been calculated based on known floor counts for the building, then extrapolated through analyzing typically hundreds of buildings of the same function on this database that do have confirmed heights. The user should be aware that non-standard building features, such as significant spires or raised entrances / podiums, may affect the accuracy of these estimations.

RANK
Name
Height
1 Argentine Federale Building

610 m / 2,001 ft

2 Miglin-Beitler Skyneedle

609 m / 2,000 ft

3 Evergrande City Light

454 m / 1,488 ft

4 Petronas Twin Tower 1

452 m / 1,483 ft

4 Petronas Twin Tower 2

452 m / 1,483 ft

6 Two International Finance Centre

412 m / 1,352 ft

7 Xiaobailou Union Plaza Tower 1

400 m / 1,312 ft

8 1 Corporate Avenue

376 m / 1,234 ft

9 15 Penn Plaza

371 m / 1,216 ft

10 Fairmont Kuala Lumpur Tower 1

370 m / 1,214 ft

11 Shanghai International Trade Center Tower 1

370 m / 1,214 ft

12 City Tower 1

358 m / 1,175 ft

13 Newpark Tower 1

342 m / 1,121 ft

14 Salesforce Tower

326 m / 1,070 ft

15 Mori JP Tower

325 m / 1,067 ft

16 The Landmark

324 m / 1,063 ft

17 Columbus Circle Project

320 m / 1,050 ft

18 Peachtree Triangle

306 m / 1,004 ft

19 Union Park I

303 m / 995 ft

20 Torre Costanera

300 m / 984 ft

21 Abeno Harukas

300 m / 984 ft

22 Key Tower

289 m / 947 ft

23 Nihonbashi 1-ChĹŤme Central District Redevelopment

284 m / 932 ft

24 Cheung Kong Centre

283 m / 928 ft

25 Petronas Tower 3

267 m / 876 ft

26 Torre Mitikah

266 m / 872 ft

27 Bank of America Corporate Center

265 m / 871 ft

28 Raffles City The Bund East Tower

263 m / 863 ft

28 Raffles City the Bund West Tower

263 m / 863 ft

30 Azabudai Hills Residence B

263 m / 862 ft

31 Union Park II

262 m / 859 ft

32 Shanghai IFC North Tower

260 m / 853 ft

33 Central International Plaza East Tower

259 m / 850 ft

34 Central International Plaza West Tower

259 m / 850 ft

35 Salesforce Tower

255 m / 835 ft

36 Shanghai IFC South Tower

250 m / 820 ft

37 Torre de Cristal

249 m / 817 ft

38 Bloomberg Tower

246 m / 806 ft

39 Ocean Financial Centre

245 m / 804 ft

40 The Centrale

245 m / 803 ft

41 542-550 Howard Street

244 m / 800 ft

42 30 Hudson Street

238 m / 781 ft

43 Azabudai Hills Residence A

237 m / 778 ft

44 BB&T Tower

237 m / 778 ft

45 Wells Fargo Center

236 m / 775 ft

46 One Canada Square

236 m / 774 ft

47 Carnegie Hall Tower

231 m / 757 ft

48 Three World Financial Center

225 m / 739 ft

49 Texas Tower

224 m / 735 ft

50 Taikang Headquarters Building

223 m / 733 ft

51 FMC Tower at Cira Centre South

223 m / 730 ft

52 777 Tower

221 m / 725 ft

53 Vanke One City Office Tower

220 m / 722 ft

54 China Overseas International Center

220 m / 722 ft

55 Shanghai International Trade Center Tower 2

220 m / 722 ft

56 1555 Poydras

219 m / 719 ft

57 Unicredit Tower

218 m / 714 ft

58 Capital Place Office Tower

215 m / 706 ft

59 501 Congress Avenue

215 m / 705 ft

60 The Tower at Society Center

212 m / 696 ft

61 Union Park III

211 m / 691 ft

62 No. 1 Shanghai

211 m / 691 ft

63 Hyatt Hotel at Fain Pier

210 m / 689 ft

64 One International Finance Centre

210 m / 689 ft

65 181 West Madison

207 m / 680 ft

66 South Station Tower

206 m / 677 ft

67 Vietcombank Tower

206 m / 676 ft

68 Wolf Point East

204 m / 668 ft

69 25 Canada Square

201 m / 659 ft

70 Two World Financial Center

197 m / 645 ft

71 Residences by Armani Casa

195 m / 639 ft

72 Nihonbashi Mitsui Tower

192 m / 631 ft

73 Atago Green Hills Mori Tower

187 m / 614 ft

74 Riverview Plaza A3

186 m / 610 ft

75 Hillsborough River Tower

183 m / 600 ft

76 One Congress Street Tower 2

183 m / 600 ft

77 Aria Resort & Casino

183 m / 600 ft

78 Harbor Garage Project Residential Tower

183 m / 600 ft

79 1500 Louisiana Street

183 m / 600 ft

80 Wood Wharf W02

182 m / 595 ft

81 Torre Sevilla

181 m / 592 ft

82 Museum Tower

179 m / 589 ft

83 One World Financial Center

176 m / 577 ft

84 Block 185

176 m / 577 ft

85 Lyra

174 m / 571 ft

86 Spear Tower

172 m / 564 ft

87 Torre Iberdrola

165 m / 541 ft

88 Union Park IV

164 m / 537 ft

89 Torre Repsol YPF

160 m / 525 ft

90 Torre Sofia

158 m / 518 ft

91 Atago Green Hills Forest Tower

157 m / 515 ft

92 1214 Fifth Avenue

156 m / 513 ft

93 1 West End Avenue

156 m / 513 ft

94 Riverview Plaza A2

156 m / 512 ft

95 SKYZ Tower & Garden

154 m / 505 ft

96 25 Bank Street

153 m / 502 ft

96 40 Bank Street

153 m / 502 ft

98 Four World Financial Center

152 m / 500 ft

99 70 Trinity Place

152 m / 499 ft

100 Torre Libertad

150 m / 492 ft

101 Baoland Plaza

149 m / 487 ft

102 6624 Fannin Tower

145 m / 477 ft

103 Abeno Grand Tour

144 m / 473 ft

104 Sea Hawk Hotel & Resort

143 m / 469 ft

105 900 3rd Avenue

143 m / 469 ft

106 100 North Main Street

140 m / 460 ft

107 Nakanoshima Mitsui Building

140 m / 460 ft

108 Camargo Corporate North Tower

139 m / 456 ft

108 Camargo Corporate South Tower

139 m / 456 ft

110 Four Leaf Towers 1

135 m / 444 ft

110 Four Leaf Towers 2

135 m / 444 ft

112 NHK Osaka Hall

135 m / 443 ft

113 Cira Centre

133 m / 437 ft

114 La Nube

132 m / 433 ft

115 68 Trinity Place

132 m / 433 ft

116 Evo at Cira Centre South

130 m / 427 ft

117 Sede Corporativa Banco Macro

130 m / 427 ft

118 Residencial del Bosque 1

129 m / 422 ft

118 Residencial del Bosque 2

129 m / 422 ft

120 JPMorgan Chase Building

128 m / 420 ft

121 1330 Post Oak Boulevard

128 m / 420 ft

122 171 Dartmouth Street

128 m / 419 ft

123 NTT Shinjuku Head Office Building

127 m / 417 ft

124 Citylights at Queens Landing

125 m / 410 ft

125 475 Park Avenue South

124 m / 408 ft

126 Station East

122 m / 400 ft

127 Frost Bank Tower

122 m / 400 ft

128 Gioia 22

121 m / 398 ft

129 Baosteel Shanghai Headquarters

120 m / 392 ft

130 CHOP Roberts Center for Pediatric Research Building 1

114 m / 375 ft

131 The Visionaire

110 m / 360 ft

132 1360 Post Oak Tower

107 m / 351 ft

132 Wells Fargo Tower

107 m / 351 ft

134 South Station Air Rights Development Phase 2

106 m / 349 ft

135 Cleveland Marriott Downtown at Key Center

103 m / 339 ft

136 McKinney & Olive

102 m / 335 ft

137 North Point

101 m

331 ft

Please note that this height is estimated, based on a floor count of 23 floors. The estimation has been arrived at by analyzing 6,880 other buildings of the same Office function on this database that do have confirmed heights. The user should be aware that non-standard features, such as significant spires or raised entrances / podiums, may affect the accuracy of this estimation.
138 Clorox Building

101 m / 330 ft

139 Porta Nuova Garibaldi Tower B

100 m / 328 ft

140 Brooklyn Commons - 115 Myrtle Avenue

99 m / 325 ft

141 Shenzhen Kerry Hotel Jen

96 m / 315 ft

142 Garage East

93 m / 305 ft

143 Gonda Building

93 m / 305 ft

144 Four Seasons Hotel Jakarta

91 m / 299 ft

145 Zurichtoren

88 m / 289 ft

146 Plaza Tower

86 m / 283 ft

147 The Solaire

85 m / 280 ft

148 South Station Air Rights Development Phase 3

85 m / 279 ft

149 Osaka Museum of History

83 m / 272 ft

150 The Ice Cubes

66 m / 218 ft

151 Pacific Design Center Red Building

66 m / 216 ft

152 One Century Tower

65 m / 213 ft

153 Porta Nuova Garibaldi Tower C

62 m / 202 ft

154 One Park West Tower 1

56 m / 184 ft

155 1212 Fifth Avenue

54 m / 177 ft

156 One Park West Tower 2

50 m / 165 ft

157 Azabudai Hills Garden Plaza Building C-2

41 m / 135 ft

158 PVN Tower

-

159 Trump Crystal

-

160 PVN Residential Tower

-

161 Maral 57

-

162 Patina Osaka

-

163 Buerger Center for Advanced Pediatric Care, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

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Statistics

Average Building Age*

16 Years

Most Common Function*

Office (60%)

Most Common Material*

Concrete (40%)

* Based on 150 m+ buildings currently in the database

Based on 77 buildings over 150 m height with a function
 
Based on 65 buildings over 150 m height with a material
 

Building Completions Timeline

Building Map

Construction Time Chart

NOTE: Construction start time is not available for all buildings. The average construction time is only displayed if there is three or more buildings with construction start and complete data in that year.

Ctbuh Leaders At Pelli Clarke & Partners

CTBUH Awards Urban Habitat Jury, 2024

Mariko Masuoka

31 October 2017

Interview: Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects

Fred Clarke, AĂŻcha Woods & Mark Shoemaker of Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects are interviewed by Chris Bentley during the 2017 CTBUH Australia Conference.

30 October 2017

CTBUH 2017 Australia Conference - Session 4A: Connected Buildings and Urban Mobility

Ame Engelhart, Director - Hong Kong, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP, chairs the question and answer session with Fred Clarke, Senior Design Principal, Pelli Clarke...

30 October 2017

Rethinking CTBUH's Height Criteria in the Context of Tall Timber

Recent developments in the design and construction of progressively taller buildings using engineered timber as a structural material raise important questions about the language that...

30 October 2017

Humanizing Infrastructure: How Large-Scale, Transit-Based Urban Design Contributes to a Vibrant City

This presentation addressed the benefits of transit-based urban infrastructure development. In particular, it discusses the ways large-scale infrastructure can be humanized, making it open, friendly,...

16 March 2017

Building Tall Skyscraper Lecture Series: How High Can We Go?

Thursday, March 16, 2017. Chicago, United States of America. Hosted in collaboration with the Chicago Architecture Foundation, the first lecture of the series Building Tall...

03 November 2016

Interview: Ron Klemencic

Ron Klemencic, Chairman & CEO, Magnusson Klemencic Associates, discusses some of his personal favorite projects with Chris Bentley, during the 2016 CTBUH Awards Symposium at...

20 October 2016

Skyscrapers in Hong Kong

Thursday October 20, 2016. Hong Kong, China. Eric Ma of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region presents at the 2016 China Conference Plenary 6: Hong Kong...

20 October 2016

ICC – Rising High for the Future of Hong Kong

Thursday October 20, 2016. Hong Kong, China. Tony Tang of Sun Hung Kai Properties Limited presents at the 2016 China Conference Plenary 6: Hong Kong...

18 October 2016

CTBUH Video Interview – Jon Pickard

Jon Pickard of Pickard Chilton is interviewed by Chris Bentley during the 2016 CTBUH China Conference. Jon discusses the local economic impacts of tall buildings.

18 October 2016

CTBUH Video Interview – Hashimah Hashim

Hashimah Hashim of KLCC Property Holdings Berhad is interviewed by Chris Bentley during the 2016 CTBUH China Conference. Hashimah discusses the master planning and development...

22 December 2023

Remembering Charles H. Thornton, 2012 Fazlur Khan Lifetime Achievement Awardee

Charles Thornton & Richard Tomasetti

This edition of Talking Tall is an interview from the CTBUH archives. The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat would like to remember Charles...

16 October 2023

Humanizing High Density

CTBUH Research

The theme “Humanizing High Density—People, Nature & the Urban Realm” for the CTBUH 2023 International Conference comes at a pertinent moment: Today intersecting are a...

05 July 2023

We All Love to Get High: Optimizing Observation Deck Design

Terri Meyer Boake

Height is aspirational, and having the best view from that height has become a driver in contemporary tall building design. Likewise, observation decks are a...

03 January 2022

Interactive Study on Tall Buildings in 2021: A State of Current Construction

CTBUH Research

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat has released its annual report, CTBUH Year in Review: Tall Trends of 2021, part of the Tall...

20 March 2020

Interactive Study on The Tallest 20 in 2020: Then and Now

CTBUH Research

This research paper undertakes a review of the 2012 report by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, “Tallest 20 in 2020: Entering the...

12 December 2019

Interactive Study on Year in Review: Tall Trends of 2019

CTBUH Research

The year 2019 was remarkable for the tall building industry, with 26 supertall buildings (300 meters or taller) completed, the most in any year. This...

28 October 2019

Fifty Years of Fire Safety In Supertall Buildings

Peter Weismantle, AS+GG; James Antell, Telgian Engineering & Consulting

As international design teams participated in the development of high-rise structures around the world, many of the concepts of fire-safe design first introduced in the...

25 April 2019

Tall Buildings in Numbers: World's Tallest Offset-Core Buildings

CTBUH Research

There has long been an interest in separating the service cores of tall buildings from the main programmed areas – to create more column-free, easily-configured...

25 April 2019

Best Tall Buildings 2019: Dominant Trends

CTBUH

This year, CTBUH has vastly expanded its Awards program to consider the Best Tall Building category through several classes of height, rather than geographic regions,...

05 July 2023

Two Structures in Tokyo Complex Are Completed

On 3 July, a completion ceremony was held to commemorate that the construction was completed for the 325.2-meter-high Mori JP Tower and the Azabudai Hills...

26 April 2022

Japan's Tallest Tower Tops Out In Toranomon, Tokyo

The 64-story skyscraper in the Toranomon-Azabudai Project topped out at 325.2 meters on April 21, 2022. This is now the tallest building in Japan, exceeding...

22 December 2021

Construction Begins on Nihonbashi High-Rise in Tokyo

Construction has now started on a 52-story mixed-use development alongside Nihonbashi River. The 284-meter-tall tower will include 100 luxury residences on the top four floors....

22 February 2021

Under-Construction Tokyo Skyscraper to Include Condos

A skyscraper now under-construction in the heart of Tokyo will have residential areas on its upper floors, with services provided by luxury hotel operator Aman...

03 November 2020

Major Hotel Brand to Open First Hotel in Japan in 2026

Waldorf Astoria Hotels & Resorts is opening Japan's first Waldorf-branded hotel in Tokyo in 2026. The hotel will occupy the 39th to 47th floors within...

12 May 2020

What Could be Japan's Tallest Building Project Continues Work Amid Pandemic

Yoshiko Mori’s fortune fell 19 percent to $1.4 billion, dropping along with the turmoil that has rocked global markets. The Japanese property developer she controls,...

16 April 2020

Shanghai's Xuhui District Presses Ahead on Landmark Projects

The Xuhui district government released its major construction plans for 2020 on 1 April with 61 projects with an investment of 16.5 billion yuan (US$2.34...

22 August 2019

Updated Design Plans Revealed for Massive Central Tokyo Redevelopment

Mori Building Co. recently unveiled updated design plans for a massive redevelopment project in central Tokyo, including the construction of what could become Japan’s tallest...

20 June 2019

New 28-Story Skyscraper to be Built in Oakland

The CEO of Kaiser Permanente announced 17 June 2019 that the company will be constructing a new headquarters in Oakland and will call it The...

06 March 2019

Penthouse at Tokyo Complex could be Among Japan’s Most Expensive Sales

A penthouse in Toranomon is rumored to have sold off-the-plan for 5 billion Yen (US$45 million), making it potentially one of the most expensive apartments...

CTBUH Initiatives Involving Pelli Clarke & Partners

CTBUH Chicago FLC Presents: Wolf Point East

16 December 2020

The CTBUH Chicago Future Leaders Committee held a virtual presentation on Wolf Point East, the second tower in a series of three, situated on the historic Wolf Point site in Chicago.

Skybridges: Bringing the Horizontal into the Vertical Realm

02 July 2020

This symposium gathered many successful practitioners sharing their experiences and discussing the recreation of the urban realm in the sky through connections between buildings at height.

CTBUH 2016 Conference Silver+ Sponsor

16–21 October 2016

Cities to Megacities: Shaping Dense Vertical Urbanism takes place progressively across three Chinese cities: Shenzhen, Guangzhou, and Hong Kong.

Top Company Rankings: The World’s 100 Tallest Buildings

13 October 2016

The Council is pleased to announce the Top Company Rankings for numerous disciplines as derived from the list of projects appearing in 100 of the World’s Tallest Buildings.

Warm Weather Spaces Walking Tours 2015

17 September 2015

The CTBUH Urban Habitat / Urban Design Committee organized guided walking tours of 16 cities around the globe, focusing on urban habitats around tall buildings.

Seven Cities Winter Spaces Walking Tour

29 January 2015

The new CTBUH Urban Habitat / Urban Design Committee organized a highly successful Winter Spaces Walking Tour in seven cities around the world.