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Dec 10, 2019
CTBUH 2020 Tall + Urban Innovation Conference
CTBUH Announces Initial Speakers for 2020 Tall + Urban Innovation Conference
CTBUH is pleased to announce the speakers confirmed so far for the 2020 Tall + Urban Innovation Conference. These distinguished speakers represent a wide array of subjects and disciplines related to the CTBUH Awards and ancillary on-site programming, showcasing the cutting-edge buildings, state-of-the-art technologies, and breakthrough industry practices taking shape in cities around the world.
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OWNER/DEVELOPERS ATTENDING
1000 Biscayne Blvd, LLC
Miami
Algin Management
New York City
AND Real Estate
Istanbul
CITIC Heye Investment Co.
Beijing
Cove Property Group
New York City
Crescent Heights
Chicago
Crown Group
Sydney
Die Developer Projektentwicklung GmbH
Düsseldorf
Emaar Properties
Dubai
Excellence Group
Shenzhen
Gattuso Development Partners
Philadelphia
Gaw Capital Advisors Limited
Singapore
H&H Development
Dubai
Hanwha Life Insurance Co., Ltd
Seoul
Hines Interests LP
New York City
Huayuan Property Co. Ltd.
Beijing
Impact Investment
Group Pty Ltd
Sydney
Investa Property
Sydney
IRSA Commercial Properties
Buenos Aires
ISPT Pty Ltd
Melbourne
Joint Stock Company Gazprom Neft Eastern European Projects
St. Petersburg
Maike Group
Xi’an
Mulia Group
Kuala Lumpur
Nagasaka Corporation
Nagoya
New World Development Company Limited
Hong Kong
Opalia
Montpellier
Oxford Capital Group
Chicago
Poly Developments
and Holdings Group
Co., Ltd.
Guangzhou
Poly Property Group
Co., Limited
Hong Kong
Rende Development
Bangkok
Shanghai Lujiazui
Finance & Trade Zone Development Co., Ltd.
Shanghai
SOHO China Co. Ltd
Beijing
Sun Hung Kai Properties Limited
Hong Kong
Suzhou Gao Long Property Development
Suzhou
Swire Properties Limited
Singapore
Tishman Speyer Properties
Frankfurt
Tuan Sing Holdings Limited
Singapore
United States Department of State
London
University of Technology Sydney
Sydney
Urban Capital
Toronto
Yuexiu Property
Guangzhou
Zhuhai Huafa Group
Co. Ltd.
Zhuhai
Dec 10, 2019
CTBUH 2020 Singapore & Kuala Lumpur Conference
CTBUH Announces 2020 Singapore & Kuala Lumpur Conference
With the theme of Humanizing High Density—People, Nature & the Urban Realm, the CTBUH 2020 Singapore & Kuala Lumpur Conference will bring issues of livability to the forefront of the discourse surrounding future cities. Contribute to the discussion by submitting a presentation abstract that aligns with one of numerous pre-determined topics related to the conference theme.
The deadline to submit a proposal is 31 January 2020. Competition will be high, so be sure to submit your abstract today to be considered for a speaking role.
Submit an Abstract
See Conference Synopsis
Dec 5, 2019
CTBUH 2020 Awards Winners
CTBUH Announces Award of Excellence Winners for Annual Awards Program
CHICAGO – December 4th, 2019 – The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) is pleased to announce the Award of Excellence Winners for the CTBUH 2020 Awards Program. The winning projects represent the very best tall buildings, urban contributions, technologies, and innovations emerging recently in cities around the world.
Winners were selected across a variety of categories, with projects in the “Best Tall Building” track falling into five height thresholds (i.e., under 100 meters, 100–199 meters, 200–299 meters, 300–399 meters, and 400 meters and above). Additional categories include: Urban Habitat, Renovation, Interior Space, and Construction, alongside five categories focused specifically on Engineering achievements. Awards for Innovation, Lifetime Achievement, 2020 CTBUH Fellows and 10 Year Awards will be announced at a later date.
“This year’s Award of Excellence Winners communicate the diversity of interdisciplinary thought and innovation that will characterize both current and future generations of urban development around the world,” said Best Tall Building Jury Chair Karl Fender, Director at Fender Katsalidis Architects. “These recognitions, bestowed by the world’s premier authority on tall buildings, showcase these projects to a global audience and help drive a meaningful conversation about the quality of our urban environments.”
The Award of Excellence Winners will now move on to the next stage of the CTBUH Awards Program, sending the owner/developers and design/engineer teams for the projects to the CTBUH 2020 Tall + Urban Innovation Conference, where they will compete in front of an international audience and live juries for “Best in Category” distinctions. The event will conclude with the announcement of the “2020 Best Tall Building Worldwide.”
The 2020 Tall + Urban Innovation Conference will take place in Chicago from April 5–7, 2020. Hosted at the Radisson Blu Aqua Hotel, the conference will include not only an awards ceremony, but also a dinner, a VIP networking reception, and separate program tracks discussing hot topics in the urban development and tall building industry.
Registration for the 2020 Tall + Urban Innovation Conference is now open at tallinnovation.com, where additional details can be found.
See the Award of Excellence Winners in each awards category below.
Best Tall Building under 100 meters
– 25 King, Brisbane
25 King – photo © Tom Roe
– 271 Spring Street, Melbourne
– Arc by Crown Group, Sydney
– Gala Ave West Side, Shanghai
– River City 3, Toronto
– U.S. Embassy, London, London
– UTS Central, Sydney
– White Tree, Montpellier
Best Tall Building 100-199 meters
– Changsha Hua Center Phase II Project, Changsha
Changsha Hua Center Phase II Project – photo © Aedas
– EDEN, Singapore
– K11 ATELIER King’s Road, Hong Kong
– Museum Tower Kyobashi, Tokyo
– OMNITURM, Frankfurt am Main
– Robinson Tower, Singapore
– Rosewood Bangkok Hotel, Bangkok
– Sixty Martin Place, Sydney
Best Tall Building 200-299 meters
– ARO, New York City
– Leeza SOHO, Beijing
Leeza SOHO – photo © Cao Baiqiang
– Maike Centre, Xi’an
– NEMA Chicago, Chicago
– One Thousand Museum, Miami
Best Tall Building 300-399 meters
– 53 West 53, New York City
53 West 53 – photo © Hines Interests
– Comcast Technology Center, Philadelphia
– Poly Pazhou, Guangzhou
– Zhuhai Tower, Zhuhai
Best Tall Building 400 meters and above
– CITIC Tower, Beijing
CITIC Tower – photo © H G Esch
– Lakhta Center, St. Petersburg
– Suzhou IFS, Suzhou
– The Exchange 106, Kuala Lumpur
– Tianjin CTF Finance Centre, Tianjin
Construction Award
– Collins House, Melbourne
– Lakhta Center, St. Petersburg
Lakhta Center – photo © Igor Butyrskii
– The Clement Canopy, Singapore
– Tianjin CTF Finance Centre, Tianjin
Façade Engineering Award
– Brunel Building, London
– Lakhta Center, St. Petersburg
– PIF Tower, Riyadh
– Sixty Martin Place, Sydney
Fire & Risk Engineering Award
– InterContinental Shanghai Wonderland Hotel, Shanghai
InterContinental Shanghai Wonderland Hotel – photo © Atkins
– Raffles City Chongqing, Chongqing
Geotechnical Engineering Award
– 500 Folsom, San Francisco
– Chapultepec Uno R-509, Mexico City
– Claridge’s Hotel, London
– Lakhta Center, St. Petersburg
Interior Space Award
– L’Oréal Headquarters Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf
– Leeza SOHO, Beijing
– One Excegroup Finance Center, Shenzhen
– Rosewood Bangkok Hotel, Bangkok
– Sixty Martin Place, Sydney
– UTS Central, Sydney
MEP Engineering Award
– Capitol Grand Tower, Melbourne
– Torre Glorieta Insurgentes, Mexico City
– Victoria Dockside, Hong Kong
Renovation Award
– Building Z – Polo DOT Office Park, Buenos Aires
– Hanwha Headquarters, Seoul
– Hudson Commons, New York City
– LondonHouse Chicago, (Chicago)
Structural Engineering Award
– DaiyaGate Ikebukuro, Tokyo
– Lakhta Center, St. Petersburg
– Mjøstårnet, Brumunddal
– One Thousand Museum, Miami
– Raffles City Chongqing, Chongqing
– Sumitomo Fudosan Roppongi Grand Tower, Tokyo
– Tianjin CTF Finance Centre, Tianjin
Urban Habitat Award – Single Site Scale
– AND Pastel, Istanbul
– Assuta, Tel Aviv
– DUO, Singapore
– Victoria Dockside, Hong Kong
Urban Habitat Award – District / Master Plan Scale
– Poly Greenland Plaza, Shanghai
– Pudong Financial Plaza Tower 1, Shanghai
Aug 16, 2019
CTBUH World Congress
10th World Congress Program Now Online
CTBUH is pleased to release the program and speaker list for the 10th World Congress, hosted in Chicago and themed “50 Forward | 50 Back.” The week-long event, taking place from 28 October to 2 November, will explore the most significant advancements in tall buildings and urban environments from the last 50 years, whilst inquiring into the future of our cities 50 years from now.
Register Now!
With the 21 August deadline for discounted registration approaching in just one week, there is no better time to secure your place at this seminal event.
Program Highlights include:
Tall Buildings of the Future as Seen from the Present
SawTeen See
President, See Robertson Structural Engineers
Landscape Architecture’s Impact on Vertical Urbanism
James Burnett
President, OJB Landscape Architecture
TAIPEI 101: From Record Height to Record High Performance
Angela Chang
President, Taipei Financial Center Corporation
Mjøstårnet in Norway: The World’s Tallest Timber Building
Rune Abrahamsen
CEO, Moelven
First Skyscrapers | Skyscraper Firsts Symposium
Reflections on Criteria for First Skyscrapers
Carol Willis
President, The Skyscraper Museum
Fire, Water, Cubes and Modernism: Creating a Futuristic Baku
Hi Sun Choi
Senior Principal, Thornton Tomasetti
View the Program & Build Your Schedule
Download the CTBUH Events App and get all the details about Congress workshops, presentations, and Off-Site Programs.
The app makes it easy to build your own schedule based around the sessions you don’t want to miss.
Previously on e-architect:
Jan 25, 2019
CTBUH 2019 Tall + Urban Innovation Conference
Initial Speakers, Sponsors, Off-Site Programs and Attendees Announced for 2019 Tall + Urban Innovation Conference
CTBUH is pleased to announce the 85 speakers confirmed so far for the 2019 Tall + Urban Innovation Conference. These distinguished speakers represent a wide array of subjects and disciplines related to the CTBUH Awards and ancillary on-site programming.
Five prestigious Off-Site Programs have also been confirmed, as well as numerous sponsors. See the owner/developers confirmed to attend below.
OWNER/DEVELOPERS ATTENDING:
Amorepacific Corporation
Seoul
Aviva
London
Baidu
Beijing
Boston Properties, Inc.
Boston
Centralcon Group
Shenzhen
Chengdu Wide Horizon
Chengdu
China Jinmao Group
Hong Kong
China Resources
Hong Kong
CITIC Heye Investment CO., LTD.
Beijing
Country Garden
Foshan
Earnest Development & Construction Corp.
Taipei
European Patent Office (EPO)
Rijswijk
Frasers Property
Sydney
GuocoLand Limited
Singapore
Hanking Group
Shenzhen
Henderson Development
Hong Kong
Hexi New Town Planning Bureau
Nanjing
Horoy Holdings Limited
Shenzhen
Housing & Development Board
Singapore
Huma Desenvolvimento Imobiliário
São Paulo
Jay Paul Company
San Francisco
JQZ
Homebush
Lendlease Corporation
New York City
M+S Pte Ltd
Singapore
Manhattan Loft Corporation
London
Melco Resorts & Entertainment
Macau
Mirvac Group
Sydney
Modern Land (China) Co. Limited
Beijing
New World Development Company Limited
Hong Kong
Omniyat
Dubai
PACE Development Corporation
Bangkok
Ping An Real Estate
Shenzhen
PNB Merdeka Ventures SDN Berhad
Kuala Lumpur
QingDao Conson Hai Tian Center Co. LTD
Qingdao
Riverside Investment & Development
Chicago
Shenzhen Energy Group Co.
Shenzhen
Shenzhen Parkland Real Estate Development
Shenzhen
Sun Hung Kai Properties
Hong Kong
The Central Bank of Kuwait
Kuwait City
Tishman Speyer Design and Construction
Shanghai
Unite Group
London
V&A Waterfront
Cape Town
Victor Group
New York City
Yuan Lih
Taichung City
Previously on e-architect:
21 Jul 2018
CTBUH Middle East Conference
CTBUH 2018 Middle East Conference, Dubai & Abu Dhabi, UAE
21 – 25 Oct 2018
The CTBUH 2018 Middle East Conference, ‘Polycentric Cities: The Future of Vertical Urbanism’ embraces 43 sessions, 13 workshops, 15 off-site programs, 4 evenings of networking receptions, and programs in Abu Dhabi following the main program in Dubai.
Speakers represent a wide array of subjects and disciplines related to the conference theme and other hot topics in the industry, as well as numerous companies and cities from around the globe. Check out the full program here.
We hope this will encourage you to register for the event, if not already registered, as the deadline for discounted registration rates is fast approaching; 15 August. Don’t miss out on your opportunity to join this year’s premier gathering for influencing best-practice thinking in tall buildings and sustainable cities.
#CTBUH2018
Previously on e-architect:
28 Oct 2016
CTBUH Top Company Rankings: The World’s 100 Tallest Buildings
CTBUH Top Company Rankings: The World’s 100 Tallest Buildings
These rankings highlight the companies that have contributed to realizing the world’s tallest buildings, yielding some rather interesting findings:
CTBUH Releases Company Rankings for Projects Appearing in 100 of the World’s Tallest Buildings
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. This book is the latest edition in the CTBUH “100 Tallest” series, which represents a snapshot of the tallest buildings complete or under construction at the time of publication. We now recognize the achievements of the companies responsible for these buildings, ranking them by the number of published projects across multiple disciplines.
Jeddah Tower in Saudi Arabia Skyscraper
Location: Kingdom City, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia – KSA
Date built: 2013-19
Architect: Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture with SWA, landscape architecture
1,000+ meters
image from architect
CTBUH Top Company Rankings: The World’s 100 Tallest Buildings
Rank Name, City, Country – Height – Year
1 Jeddah Tower, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia – 1,000m – 2019
2 Burj Khalifa, Dubai, United Arab Emirates – 828m – 2010
Jan 16, 2014
CTBUH 2013 Tall Buildings Data Research Report
2013: Second-Busiest Skyscraper Year in History
The tallest 20 buildings completed in 2013
CHICAGO, JAN. 15 – The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) has
released its annual report, the 2013 Tall Building Data Research Report, part of the Tall
Buildings in Numbers data analysis series.
The tallest 20 buildings completed in 2013:
By all indications, the small increase in the total number of tall-building completions
from 2012 into 2013 is indicative of a return to the prevalent trend of increasing
completions each year over the past decade.
Pearl River Tower, China:
CTBUH 2013 Tall Buildings Data Research Report Key Findings
• 2013 was the second-most successful year on record for completion of
buildings 200 meters or greater in height. In 2013, 73 such buildings were
completed, second only to the 81 completions of 2011. In 2012, the number
had dropped slightly to 69.
• For the fourth year running, nine “supertall” buildings of 300 meters or greater
were again completed in 2013. These 36 supertalls, built over the last four
years, comprise nearly half the total number of supertalls that now exist (77).
• Of the 73 buildings completed in 2013, 12 buildings – or 16 percent – entered
the list of 100 Tallest Buildings in the World.
• For the sixth year running, China had the most 200-meter-plus completions of
any nation, at 37 – located across 22 cities.
• The tallest building to complete in 2013 was the 355-meter JW Marriott
Marquis Hotel Dubai Tower 2 in Dubai, UAE.
• Three of the five tallest buildings completed are in the United Arab Emirates,
for the second year in a row.
• Europe has two of the 10 tallest buildings completed in any given year for the
first time since 1953.
• Of the 73 buildings over 200 meters completed in 2013, only one, 1717
Broadway in New York, was in the United States.
Tall buildings 200 meters or taller completed each year from 1970 to 2014.
Insert: Total Number of 200m+ Buildings in Existence:
The Tall Buildings in Numbers data analysis series takes a statistical and graphical look at various topics related to tall buildings, such as height, function, geographical location, energy requirements, structure and others.
In addition, at the close of each year, the CTBUH produces a study which provides a written and graphical synopsis of tall buildings completed during the subject year, with a focus on buildings over 200 meters in height.
The tallest buildings completed each year, 2000-2013:
This synopsis is published annually in the first issue of the CTBUH Journal.
For more Tall Building information and statistics, please visit The Skyscraper Center.
Location: Chicago, IL, USA
CTBUH Height Ratification News
One World Trade Center’s Height Ratified at 1,776 Feet
Nov 13, 2013 – The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat convened its Height Committee on November 8th in Chicago to evaluate its criteria for determining the official height of buildings, and to rule on the official height of One World Trade Center in New York.
The Height Committee has reached a consensus that One World Trade Center’s height to its architectural top is 1,776 feet (541.3 meters).
Height of One World Trade Center compared to other skyscrapers in the world
Aug 21, 2013
CTBUH 2013 Awards Symposium
CTBUH Event
CTBUH 2013 Awards Symposium Speakers
• Rem Koolhaas, OMA: architect of CCTV, Beijing
• Henry Cobb, Pei Cobb Freed: lifetime achievement award
• Clyde Baker, AECOM: lifetime achievement award
• Zhang Yue, China BROAD Group: Innovation award
Eight Spruce Street
CTBUH Best Tall Building Americas – 2011 : Eight Spruce Street
KfW Westarkade
CTBUH Best Tall Building Europe – 2011 : KfW Westarkade Building
The Index
CTBUH Best Tall Building Middle East & Africa – 2011 : The Index
CTBUH Best Tall Building Overall – 2010 : Burj Khalifa
World Skyscrapers – Selection
Burj Dubai, Dubai
Guangzhou TV Tower, China
Empire State Building, New York
Absolute Tower, Canada
About the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat
Founded in 1969, the Council’s mission is to disseminate multi-disciplinary information on tall buildings and sustainable urban environments, to maximize the international interaction of professionals involved in creating the built environment, and to make the latest knowledge available to professionals in a useful form.
The Council is an international not-for-profit organization supported by architecture, engineering, planning, development and construction professionals. The CTBUH is the world’s leading body in the field of tall buildings and the recognized source of information on tall buildings internationally. It is the arbiter of the criteria upon which tall building height is measured, and thus the title of “The World’s Tallest Building” determined.
CTBUH Best Tall Building Overall 2010 : Burj Khalifa Dubai
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