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Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture is dedicated to the design of high-performance, energy-efficient and sustainable architecture on an international scale.
They believe that architecture has the unique power to influence our world. They strive to create designs that aid society, advance technology, sustain the environment and inspire those around us to improve our world.
Their office is dedicated to the creation of new paradigms for sustainable development. They use a holistic, integrated design approach that emphasizes symbiotic relationship with the natural environment -- a philosophy they've termed ""global environmental contextualism.""
The firm was founded in 2006 by partners Adrian Smith, Gordon Gill and Robert Forest. Today there are 100 employees in offices in Chicago and Beijing.
Architecture; Interior Design; Urban Design
Rank
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Name
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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
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1 |
711 m / 2,333 ft |
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2 |
498.8 m / 1,636 ft |
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3 |
475.6 m / 1,560 ft |
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4 |
472.4 m / 1,550 ft |
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5 |
433.4 m / 1,422 ft |
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6 |
350 m / 1,148 ft |
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7 |
340 m / 1,115 ft |
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8 |
320 m / 1,050 ft |
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9 |
300.8 m / 987 ft |
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10 |
300 m / 984 ft |
CTBUH Expert Peer Review Committee, 2014 – Present
CTBUH Urban Habitat / Urban Design Committee, 2014 – Present
Christopher Drew
CTBUH Working Group: High Performance Facades, 2015 – Present
30 October 2019
Urban Advances: The Reality and The Virtual
Gordon Gill, Partner at Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture, speaks at the 2019 CTBUH International Congress in Chicago on 30 October 2019.
27 April 2018
Technical Considerations for Akhmat Tower
The 435-meter Akhmat Tower in Grozny, Chechnya, Russia, will be shaped to refer to the Nakh tower, a traditional watchtower typology in the region. A...
27 January 2023
Partnership Announced to Build New Office and Retail Skyscraper in Cairo
Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture (AS+GG Architecture) and Magnon Properies are developing the planned Forbes International Tower. The partnership, which marks the first time...
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Name
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City
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Completion
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Height
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1 |
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1008 m / 3,307 ft |
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2 |
- |
1000 m / 3,281 ft |
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3 |
- |
874 m / 2,867 ft |
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4 |
- |
711 m / 2,333 ft |
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5 |
- |
700 m / 2,297 ft |
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6 |
- |
685 m / 2,247 ft |
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7 |
- |
636 m / 2,087 ft |
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8 |
- |
550 m / 1,804 ft |
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9 |
- |
518 m / 1,700 ft |
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10 |
2025 |
499 m / 1,636 ft |
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11 |
2023 |
476 m / 1,560 ft |
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12 |
2020 |
472 m / 1,550 ft |
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13 |
- |
470 m / 1,542 ft |
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14 |
- |
468 m / 1,535 ft |
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15 |
- |
446 m / 1,463 ft |
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16 |
- |
435 m / 1,427 ft |
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17 |
2027 |
433 m / 1,422 ft |
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18 |
- |
400 m / 1,312 ft |
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19 |
- |
378 m / 1,240 ft |
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20 |
- |
350 m / 1,148 ft |
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21 |
2023 |
340 m / 1,115 ft |
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22 |
- |
320 m / 1,050 ft |
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23 |
2015 |
301 m / 987 ft |
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24 |
- |
300 m / 984 ft |
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25 |
- |
260 m / 853 ft |
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26 |
2018 |
255 m / 835 ft |
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27 |
- |
248 m / 814 ft |
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28 |
2013 |
246 m / 805 ft |
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29 |
2023 |
240 m / 787 ft |
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30 |
- |
227 m / 745 ft |
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31 |
- |
224 m / 735 ft |
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32 |
2023 |
221 m / 724 ft |
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33 |
- |
220 m / 722 ft |
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34 |
- |
220 m / 722 ft |
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35 |
- |
219 m / 719 ft |
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36 |
2023 |
187 m / 613 ft |
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37 |
2016 |
185 m / 607 ft |
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38 |
- |
173 m / 568 ft |
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39 |
- |
166 m / 545 ft |
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40 |
2014 |
158 m / 517 ft |
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41 |
- |
138 m / 453 ft |
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42 |
- |
114 m / 374 ft |
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43 |
2013 |
112 m / 366 ft |
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44 |
- |
105 m / 344 ft |
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45 |
2017 |
100 m / 328 ft |
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46 |
- |
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47 |
- |
- m / - ft |
Average Building Age*
7 Years
Most Common Function*
Office (42%)
Most Common Material*
Composite (55%)
* Based on 150 m+ buildings currently in the database
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.
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CTBUH Expert Peer Review Committee, 2014 – Present
CTBUH Urban Habitat / Urban Design Committee, 2014 – Present
CTBUH Working Group: High Performance Facades, 2015 – Present
CTBUH Chicago Chapter, 2018 – Present
CTBUH Future Leaders Committee, Chicago, 2019 – Present
30 October 2019 | Chicago
Gordon Gill, Partner at Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture, speaks at the 2019 CTBUH International Congress in Chicago on 30 October 2019.
28 March 2018 | Chicago
Thursday, February 1, 2018. Chicago, United States of America. The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) and the Chicago Architecture Foundation (CAF) held...
16 March 2017 | Chicago
Thursday, March 16, 2017. Chicago, United States of America. Hosted in collaboration with the Chicago Architecture Foundation, the first event in the Building Tall lecture...
16 March 2017 | Chicago
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...
26 October 2015 | New York City
Adrian Smith, Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture; Keith Brooks, ARCADIS Architects; George Leventis, Langan; and Alan Poeppel, Langan, answer questions at the end of...
26 October 2015 | New York City
Adrian Smith of Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture is interviewed by Chris Bentley during the 2015 CTBUH New York Conference at the Grand Hyatt...
26 October 2015 | New York City
Supertall towers, when done correctly, are the catalyst for the city or district around them. They give an area an identity. They increase the local...
06 November 2014 | Chicago
Juan Betancur, Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture, is interviewed by Chris Bentley regarding the Best Tall Building Featured Finalist, the FKI Head Office Building,...
06 November 2014 | Chicago
The new head offices for the Federation of Korean Industries (FKI) are a major new addition to the skyline of Seoul, Korea. The tower features...
18 September 2014 | Shanghai
One of the roles of the CTBUH is to be a “voice of reason” as the arbiter of building height claims, and to be consistent...
27 April 2018
Alejandro Stochetti, Sara Beardsley & Marc Cerone, Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture; John Peronto, Thornton Tomasetti
The 435-meter Akhmat Tower in Grozny, Chechnya, Russia, will be shaped to refer to the Nakh tower, a traditional watchtower typology in the region. A...
01 March 2018
Peter A. Weismantle, Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture
The design of a supertall building poses many challenges to the architect and engineer. Using Jeddah Tower as a case study; this paper intends to...
01 December 2017
Chris Drew & Natalia Quintanilla, Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture
Across the world, building energy codes are becoming stricter, demanding higher levels of energy performance with each issuance. Some locations have taken initiatives to eliminate...
01 December 2017
Juan Betancur, Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture
This paper outlines the processes and strategies studied and selected by the team during the design stages of the project for the incorporation of BIPV...
08 August 2017
Ilkay Can-Standard, GenX Design & Technology; Martina Dolejsova, Studio Libeskind
ASPECT: RATIOS is the outgrowth of a program developed by the CTBUH Young Professionals Committee in New York, beginning in 2016. The purpose of the...
28 April 2017
Helmut Jahn, JAHN; Mir Ali, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Chicago’s drum-shaped, 17-story James R. Thompson Center, with its soaring atrium and extensive glazing, has been criticized for poor temperature control and spatial inefficiency, and...
17 October 2016
Christopher Drew, Patrick Keeney & Xi Yi, Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture
One of the predicted effects of climate change in Central China is an increase in precipitation and in extreme rainfall intensity. In 2015, the Chinese...
17 October 2016
Ro Shroff, CallisonRTKL
This paper articulates how changing market conditions and other variables impact the design process for tall buildings in general and a 355m tall luxury residential...
17 October 2016
Zhendong Wang & Jing Cui, Tongji University
In the pursuit of denser, more concentrated sustainable cities which reduce the loss of open space and energy-intensive transport and infrastructure networks, tall buildings have...
26 October 2015
Adrian Smith & Peter Weismantle, Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture
AS+GG’s Director of Supertall Technology interviews AS+GG Partner Adrian Smith about the impact that supertall buildings have on a city’s identity, economy, ecological impact, and...
01 September 2022
The office space at the 340-meter Uptown Tower has been fully pre-leased in advance of the completion of its construction later in 2022. Over 495,000...
08 July 2022
The faceted glass façade for the 340-meter-tall Uptown Tower has been fully installed. Having started installation in August 2020, progress on the façade proceeded at...
27 May 2020
A 102-story skyscraper known as Tribune East Tower could become Chicago’s second tallest building in the coming years, after aldermen on Wednesday, 20 May, 2020...
22 November 2019
A subsidiary of China’s largest construction group has suspended work on one of the nation’s tallest skyscrapers after the developer became the latest in a...
21 November 2019
On 19 November 2019, developers unveiled updated plans for a mixed-use supertall tower slated for the parking lot just east of Chicago’s landmark Tribune Tower....
07 November 2019
Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture (AS+GG) has announced the design of the new South HeXi Yuzui Financial District in Nanjing. The firm won an...
07 November 2019
Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture (AS+GG) has announced the design of the new South HeXi Yuzui Financial District in Nanjing. The firm won an...
08 October 2019
The developer of a proposed supertall skyscraper on North Michigan Avenue next to Tribune Tower is nearing an agreement with the city in “a couple...
18 September 2019
The Grand Central Terminal-adjacent supertall One Vanderbilt officially topped out this week, reaching its full 1,401-foot (427-meter) height. Designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox, the tower...
21 January 2019
For decades, the New York City skyline was dominated by one building, the 1,250-foot-tall (381-meter) Empire State Building. But 17 “supertall” skyscrapers — defined as...
01 February 2018
The Chicago Architecture Foundation (CAF) and CTBUH hosted a panel discussion on the movement to incorporate green features into tall buildings.
04–07 September 2017
22 speakers discussed the state of high-rise design & construction at this conference, a partner event between the CTBUH and Samara State Technical University.
28 August 2017
CTBUH is launching a new academic initiative, empowering Master's-level architecture students to research new possibilities in rope-less elevator technology.
24 May 2017
CTBUH, ComEd, and Seventhwave partnered to host a breakfast seminar focused on high-performance building envelope design with the goal of identifying opportunities for energy savings.
28 April 2017
The CTBUH had a significant presence at this year's AIA Conference in Orlando, convening a panel discussion investigating the sustainability of urban and suburban living patterns.
16 March 2017
The CTBUH, in conjunction with the Chicago Architecture Foundation (CAF), held the first of the four-part “Building Tall” lecture series at the CAF lecture hall.
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