Blown out sky with leaves

[SRPcashie]

I'm running ps cc 20.0.6 on a mac and I have tried a great number of things to make the sky/building in this image look a bit better.  Any suggestions?

[Chuck Uebele]

How about replace it?

[SRPcashie]

I tried and it looks super fake.

[Michael Bullo · Accepted solution]

There's really no detail in the sky to be recovered. However, there is good detail within the building that can be manipulated.

I converted your image to a Smart Object and applied a Camera Raw filter…

- Highlights: -100

- Blacks: -30

- Clarity: +20

- Dehaze: +60

There are many other options that can be tweaked. My main focus here was quickly pulling out detail in the building.