CTBUH Gold Member

Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects

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 Pelli 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
Height
3 Evergrande City Light

453.5 m

1,488 ft
4 Petronas Twin Tower 2

451.9 m

1,483 ft
6 Riverview Plaza A1

436 m

1,430 ft
7 Two International Finance Centre

412 m

1,352 ft
10 Dallas Smart District Tower 1

341.7 m

1,121 ft
11 Salesforce Tower

326.1 m

1,070 ft
12 Toranomon-Azabudai District Main Tower

325.2 m

1,067 ft
13 The Landmark

324 m

1,063 ft
16 Union Park I

303.2 m

995 ft
17 Torre Costanera

300 m

984 ft

Building Completions Timeline

Videos

31 October 2017

Interview: Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects

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

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Research

20 March 2020

The Tallest 20 in 2020: Predictions vs. Reality

In the first edition of the 2012 Journal, CTBUH published a Tall Buildings in Numbers study titled Tallest 20 in 2020: Era of the Megatall—The...

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Global News

23 April 2020

Foundation Preparations Begin at 60-Story Office Tower Along Chicago River

Development of the 60-story Salesforce Tower has kicked off along the Chicago River after the project secured a US$500 million-plus construction loan that is one of the...

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Associated companies

Cesar Pelli & Associates

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

609.5 m

2,000 ft
3 Evergrande City Light

453.5 m

1,488 ft
4 Petronas Twin Tower 1

451.9 m

1,483 ft
4 Petronas Twin Tower 2

451.9 m

1,483 ft
6 Riverview Plaza A1

436 m

1,430 ft
7 Two International Finance Centre

412 m

1,352 ft
8 Xiaobailou Union Plaza Tower 1

400 m

1,312 ft
9 15 Penn Plaza

370.6 m

1,216 ft
10 Dallas Smart District Tower 1

341.7 m

1,121 ft
11 Salesforce Tower

326.1 m

1,070 ft
12 Toranomon-Azabudai District Main Tower

325.2 m

1,067 ft
13 The Landmark

324 m

1,063 ft
14 Columbus Circle Project

320 m

1,050 ft
15 Peachtree Triangle

306 m

1,004 ft
16 Union Park I

303.2 m

995 ft
17 Torre Costanera

300 m

984 ft
18 Abeno Harukas

300 m

984 ft
19 Key Tower

288.7 m

947 ft
20 Cheung Kong Centre

282.8 m

928 ft
21 Torre Mitikah

267.3 m

877 ft
22 Petronas Tower 3

267 m

876 ft
23 Bank of America Corporate Center

265.5 m

871 ft
24 Star Harbor International Centre East Tower

263 m

863 ft
24 Star Harbor International Centre West Tower

263 m

863 ft
26 Toranomon-Azabudai District West Tower

262.8 m

862 ft
27 Union Park II

261.7 m

859 ft
28 Shanghai IFC North Tower

259.9 m

853 ft
29 Central International Plaza East Tower

259 m

850 ft
30 Central International Plaza West Tower

259 m

850 ft
31 Salesforce Tower

254.6 m

835 ft
32 Shanghai IFC South Tower

249.9 m

820 ft
33 Torre de Cristal

249 m

817 ft
34 542-550 Howard Street

245.7 m

806 ft
35 Bloomberg Tower

245.6 m

806 ft
36 Ocean Financial Centre

245 m

804 ft
37 The Centrale

244.8 m

803 ft
38 30 Hudson Street

238.1 m

781 ft
39 Toranomon-Azabudai District East Tower

237.2 m

778 ft
40 BB&T Tower

237 m

778 ft
41 Wells Fargo Center

236.3 m

775 ft
42 One Canada Square

236 m

774 ft
43 Carnegie Hall Tower

230.7 m

757 ft
44 Three World Financial Center

225.2 m

739 ft
45 Texas Tower

224 m

735 ft
46 FMC Tower at Cira Centre South

222.5 m

730 ft
47 777 Tower

221 m

725 ft
48 Vanke One City Office Tower

220 m

722 ft
49 1555 Poydras

219 m

719 ft
50 Unicredit Tower

217.7 m

714 ft
51 Capital Place Office Tower

215.2 m

706 ft
52 501 Congress Avenue

214.9 m

705 ft
53 The Tower at Society Center

212 m

696 ft
54 Union Park III

210.6 m

691 ft
55 No. 1 Shanghai

210.5 m

691 ft
56 Hyatt Hotel at Fain Pier

210 m

689 ft
57 One International Finance Centre

210 m

689 ft
58 181 West Madison

207.3 m

680 ft
59 South Station Tower

206.4 m

677 ft
60 Vietcombank Tower

206 m

676 ft
61 Wolf Point East Tower

203.5 m

668 ft
62 25 Canada Square

201 m

659 ft
63 Residences by Armani Casa

197.8 m

649 ft
64 Two World Financial Center

196.6 m

645 ft
65 Nihonbashi Mitsui Tower

192.3 m

631 ft
66 Atago Green Hills Mori Tower

187 m

614 ft
67 Riverview Plaza A3

186 m

610 ft
68 Hillsborough River Tower

183 m

600 ft
69 Aria Resort & Casino

182.9 m

600 ft
70 Harbor Garage Project Residential Tower

182.9 m

600 ft
71 1500 Louisiana Street

182.9 m

600 ft
72 Wood Wharf W02

181.5 m

595 ft
73 Torre Sevilla

180.5 m

592 ft
74 601 West 2nd Street

179.5 m

589 ft
75 Museum Tower

179.5 m

589 ft
76 One World Financial Center

175.9 m

577 ft
77 555 West 38th Street

173.9 m

571 ft
78 Spear Tower

172 m

564 ft
79 Torre Iberdrola

165 m

541 ft
80 Union Park IV

163.7 m

537 ft
81 One Congress Street Tower 2

161 m

528 ft
82 Torre Repsol YPF

160 m

525 ft
83 Torre Sofia

158 m

518 ft
84 Atago Green Hills Forest Tower

157 m

515 ft
85 1214 Fifth Avenue

156.4 m

513 ft
86 1 West End Avenue

156.3 m

513 ft
87 Riverview Plaza A2

156 m

512 ft
88 25 Bank Street

153 m

502 ft
88 40 Bank Street

153 m

502 ft
90 Four World Financial Center

152.4 m

500 ft
91 70 Trinity Place

152.1 m

499 ft
92 Torre Libertad

150 m

492 ft
93 The O'Quinn Medical Tower at St. Luke's

145.3 m

477 ft
94 Abeno Grand Tour

144.2 m

473 ft
95 Sea Hawk Hotel & Resort

143 m

469 ft
96 900 3rd Avenue

143 m

469 ft
97 100 North Main Street

140.2 m

460 ft
98 Nakanoshima Mitsui Building

140.2 m

460 ft
99 Camargo Corporate North Tower

139 m

456 ft
99 Camargo Corporate South Tower

139 m

456 ft
101 Four Leaf Towers 1

135.3 m

444 ft
101 Four Leaf Towers 2

135.3 m

444 ft
103 NHK Osaka Hall

135 m

443 ft
104 Cira Centre

133.1 m

437 ft
105 68 Trinity Place

131.9 m

433 ft
106 Evo at Cira Centre South

130 m

427 ft
107 Sede Corporativa Banco Macro

130 m

427 ft
108 Residencial del Bosque 1

128.5 m

422 ft
108 Residencial del Bosque 2

128.5 m

422 ft
110 JPMorgan Chase Building

128 m

420 ft
111 1330 Post Oak Boulevard

128 m

420 ft
112 NTT Shinjuku Head Office Building

127.1 m

417 ft
113 Citylights at Queens Landing

124.9 m

410 ft
114 475 Park Avenue South

124.4 m

408 ft
115 Frost Bank Tower

121.9 m

400 ft
116 Gioia 22

121 m

397 ft
117 CHOP Research Tower

114.3 m

375 ft
118 The Visionaire

109.7 m

360 ft
119 1360 Post Oak Tower

107 m

351 ft
119 Wells Fargo Tower

107 m

351 ft
121 South Station Air Rights Development Phase 2

106.4 m

349 ft
122 Cleveland Marriott Downtown at Key Center

103.3 m

339 ft
123 Clorox Building

100.6 m

330 ft
124 North Point

m

ft

Please note that this height is estimated, based on a floor count of 23 floors. The estimation has been arrived at by analyzing 5,962 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.
125 Porta Nuova Garibaldi Tower B

100 m

328 ft
126 15 Metrotech Center

99 m

325 ft
127 Gonda Building

93 m

305 ft
128 McKinney & Olive

m

ft

Please note that this height is estimated, based on a floor count of 21 floors. The estimation has been arrived at by analyzing 5,962 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.
129 Four Seasons Hotel Jakarta

91 m

299 ft
130 Zurichtoren

88 m

289 ft
131 Plaza Tower

86.3 m

283 ft
132 The Solaire

85.3 m

280 ft
133 South Station Air Rights Development Phase 3

85 m

279 ft
134 Osaka Museum of History

83 m

272 ft
135 One Century Tower

64.9 m

213 ft
136 Porta Nuova Garibaldi Tower C

61.5 m

202 ft
137 One Park West Tower 1

56.1 m

184 ft
138 1212 Fifth Avenue

54 m

177 ft
139 One Park West Tower 2

50.3 m

165 ft
140 City Tower 1

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141 PVN Tower

-
142 Trump Crystal

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143 PVN Residential Tower

-
144 Maral 57

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

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Statistics

Average Building Age*

19 Years

Most Common Function*

Office (59%)

Most Common Material*

Concrete (43%)

* Based on 150 m+ buildings currently in the database

Based on 63 buildings over 150 m height with a function
 
Based on 54 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.

Videos

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31 October 2017

Interview: Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects

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

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,...

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

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...

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...

Research

20 March 2020

The Tallest 20 in 2020: Predictions vs. Reality

CTBUH Research

In the first edition of the 2012 Journal, CTBUH published a Tall Buildings in Numbers study titled Tallest 20 in 2020: Era of the Megatall—The...

20 March 2020

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

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 Building's 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,...

14 March 2019

Conjoined Tower Structures for Mile-High Tall Buildings

Kyoung Sun Moon, Yale University

Tall buildings are one of the most viable solutions to deal with the global phenomenon of rapid population increase and urbanization. While tall buildings are...

31 January 2019

The Global Tall Building Picture: Impact of 2018

CTBUH Research

In 2018, 143 buildings of 200 meters’ height or greater were completed. This is a slight decrease from 2017’s record-breaking total of 147, and it...

Global News

23 April 2020

Foundation Preparations Begin at 60-Story Office Tower Along Chicago River

Development of the 60-story Salesforce Tower has kicked off along the Chicago River after the project secured a US$500 million-plus construction loan that is one of the...

29 January 2020

Skyscraper Inches Towards Approval in San Francisco

The Planning Commission in San Francisco has approved a new 61-story, 806-foot (246-meter) mixed-use tower at Transbay Center. Designed by Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects for...

05 December 2019

Revised Design for San Francisco Tower Submitted

The proposed tower on Transbay Parcel F, in downtown San Francisco, has gone through a redesign that shaved off space and planned housing. The developers...

18 November 2019

New Singapore Condo Tower Prepares to Launch, In Place of Namesake

The Landmark, an upcoming 396-unit, high-rise condominium tower, is scheduled to launch sometime in the first quarter of 2020, says Darren Chew, COO of ZACD...

23 October 2019

Designs for New San Francisco Development Revealed

A canyon-like tower by MVRDV and a twisting structure by Studio Gang are among the buildings to be revealed for a new San Francisco development....

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...

08 March 2019

First Tower in Mexico City’s Mitikah Project to Open in 2019

The first office tower of the Mítikah project will enter into operation this year. Real estate investment firm, Fibra Uno will execute capital investments between...

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...

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 Pelli Architects

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.