Today, our country, Ethiopia needs to grow rapidly in terms of many aspects, for instance with respect to infrastructure. The population of the country is increasing day by day. Peoples are migrating from the neighboring villages to the cities and the cost of land for housing is increasing rapidly. Hence, construction of high-rise buildings for residential, commercial or mixed-use purposes is the major demand of current situation. However, as the height of the building increases, lateral loads from earthquake and wind become prevalent and critical for design. So, enough lateral strength and stiffness is required to withstand lateral forces and control the sideways drift of the building. Shear walls and bracings are the most common type of lateral load resisting system. And from this, Steel bracing is easy to erect, occupies less space and has flexibility in design for meeting the required strength and stiffness. The type of bracing and location of bracing have significant effects to the lateral capacity of the structure. This paper presents an elastic seismic response and wind load response of reinforced concrete frames with steel braces of V-brace type. Several building models are considered by introducing many possible bracing pattern/arrangement systems in to the building and by considering three levels of building height (20 floors, 30 floors and 40 floors) as well. The methods of analyses employed are Modal Response Spectrum Analysis for the seismic loading, and simple static approach for the wind loading. The analysis tool is ETABS 2016 finite element software. Finally, the response of the structures to the lateral loads was compared in terms of roof displacement and fundamental period of the building. From the results obtained, it was observed that both the variation in height of the building and the change in the type of lateral impact, whether seismic or wind, do not affect the rank of efficiency of the bracing pattern types for resisting lateral loads. Type 17’s and Type 3a’s bracing patterns from the 6-bay and 5-bay buildings, respectively, showed a good performance in adding lateral stiffness of the building, for both earthquake load and wind load cases. On the other hand, the conventional types of bracing location, namely Type 1, Type 2, and Type 3 from the 6-bay building and Type 1 and Type 2 from the 5-bay building showed lower stiffness to withstand lateral loads as compared to the other bracing arrangement systems recently studied. Seismic and wind load response of tall RC building frame with various steel bracing arrangements