Sustainable High-Rise Buildings: Toward Resilient Built Environment

This article examines outstanding “sustainable” skyscrapers that received international recognition, including LEED certification. It identifies vital green features in each building and summarizes the prominent elements for informing future projects. Overall, this research is significant because, given mega-scale of skyscrapers, any improvement their design, engineering, construction will have mega impacts major savings (e.g., structural materials, potable water, energy, etc.). Therefore, extracted design elements, principles, recommendations from reviewed case studies are substantial. Further, debates controversial such as wind turbines, photovoltaic panels, glass skin, roofs, aerodynamic forms, mixed-use schemes. Finally, it discusses greenwashing impact COVID-19 on sustainable design.