CTBUH Announces 2022 Best Tall Buildings

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) announced on March 17 the first tall buildings of "excellence" of 2022. Tall buildings constructed anywhere in the world that meet the requirements of excellence established by the CTBUH. Selected by a special jury as winners of the "Best Tall Building Award of Excellence" title, they compete as finalists in the relative categories of the award. The selected tall buildings, in fact, are divided into categories and related sub-categories and a specific building can classify as "excellent" in multiple areas.
In this first phase, the excellent buildings were announced only for a few of the main categories including height (subcategories: under 100 metres, 100-199 metres, 200-299 metres, 300-399 metres and over 400 metres) and function (subcategories: office, mixed-use and residential ). Subsequently, the finalists for the engineering, construction, interior design and urban habitat categories will also be announced.

The selected works therefore represent the excellence, innovation and creativity achieved in the sector of tall building construction and, as underlined by Karl Fender, Chair of the Best Tall Building jury and founding partner of Fender Katsalidis Architects, these projects are virtuous examples of those concepts of "sustainable vertical urbanism" promoted by the CTBUH. And it is precisely to the search and definition of the "ideal in vertical urbanism" that the 2022 edition of the annual international conference promoted by the CTBUH will be dedicated, entitled "Tall Excellence: Seeking the Ideal in Vertical Urbanism". The winners of each category and of the most important title, the Overall Best Tall Building Worldwide, will also be announced during the conference, set to take place in Chicago from November 9 to 12, 2022.

This year’s selected excellences include two tall buildings which we recently looked at in the pages of Floornature: in the "Best Tall Building under 100 metres" category, the Museum of The Future in Dubai, designed by the Killa Design studio, and in the "Best Tall Office Building" category, Tour Trinity, built in the La Défense district in western Paris and designed by the Cro&Co Architecture studio.

(Agnese Bifulco)

“Tall Excellence: Seeking the Ideal in Vertical Urbanism,” 2022 CTBUH International Conference, 9-12 November 2022 in Chicago https://ctbuhconference.com/

Images courtesy of Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH)


CAPTIONS
An asterisk (*) indicates a project recognized in more than one category and the (number) indicates the project photo.

HEIGHT SUB-CATEGORIES

Best Tall Building under 100 meters
(03) 7272 Wisconsin Avenue, Bethesda, USA | ©️ Maxwell MacKenzie
(02) Museum of The Future, Dubai, UAE | © Copyright 2021 Killa Design
(01) The David Rubenstein Forum, Chicago, USA | ©️ Photo by Brett Beyer, Courtesy of Diller Scofidio + Renfro  

Best Tall Building 100-199 meters
(04) 101 George Street, London, UK (*) | ©️ Tide Construction
(05) Azrieli Town Tower, Tel Aviv, Israel | ©️ Moshe Zur Architects and Town Planners
(06) Kanda Square, Tokyo, Japan | ©️ Harunori Noda [Gankohsha]
(07) Olderfleet, Melbourne, Australia (*) | ©️ Tim Griffith

  Best Tall Building 200-299 meters
(08) 22 Bishopsgate, London, UK | ©️ Nathaniel Moore / PLP Architecture
(09) Acro Seoul Forest, Seoul, South Korea | ©️ Shalom Baranes Associates
(10) Four Seasons Hotel and Private Residences, One Dalton Street, Boston, USA | ©️ Albert Vecerka/ESTO - Cambridge Seven Associates; Pei Cobb Freed & Partners Architects LLP
(11) Shenzhen Gemdale Viseen Tower, Shenzhen, China | ©️ CallisonRTKL
(12) Tokyo Torch Tokiwabashi Tower, Tokyo, Japan (*) | ©️ Mitsubishi Jisho Sekkei Inc. 

  Best Tall Building 300-399 meters
(13) Qingdao Hai Tian Center, Qingdao, China | ©️ Qingdao Conson Hai Tian Center Construction Co., Ltd.
(14) The St. Regis Chicago, Chicago, USA (*) | ©️ Tom Harris
(15) YunDing Tower, Jinan, China  | ©️ CCDI

  Best Tall Building 400 meters and above
(16) 111 West 57th Street, New York City, USA (*) | ©️ David Sundberg/ESTO
(17) One Vanderbilt Avenue, New York City, USA (*) | ©️ Raimund Koch

FUNCTION SUB-CATEGORIES

Best Tall Office Building
(18) Baoshang Bank Commerce Mansion, Baotou, China | ©️ Beijing Institute of Architectural Design
(19) Brookfield Place Sydney, Sydney Australia | ©️ Brett Boardman (20) King Portland Centre, Toronto, Canada | ©️ Hariri Pontarini Architects
(07) Olderfleet, Melbourne, Australia (*) | ©️ Tim Griffith
(17) One Vanderbilt Avenue, New York City, USA (*) | ©️ Raimund Koch
(21) Sequis Tower, Jakarta, Indonesia | ©️ Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (International) PA
(22) Tokyo Torch Tokiwabashi Tower, Tokyo, Japan (*) | ©️ Mitsubishi Jisho Sekkei Inc.
(23) Trinity, Paris La Défense (France), Puteaux, France | ©️ CRO&CO ARCHITECTURE

Best Tall Mixed-Use Building
(24) Chapultepec Uno R-509, Mexico City, Mexico | ️ ©️ TALLER G Taller Global S.C.
(25) City Gate Shoppes and Residences, Singapore | ©️ Aaron Pocock Photography
(26) Humaniti Montréal, Montreal, Canada | ©️ Adrien Williams
(27) Rainier Square, Seattle, USA | ©️ Moris Moreno
(14) The St. Regis Chicago, Chicago, USA (*) | ©️ Tom Harris  

Best Tall Residential/Hotel Building
(04) 101 George Street, London, UK (*) | ©️ Tide Construction
(16) 111 West 57th Street, New York City, USA (*) | ©️ David Sundberg/ESTO
(28) Aro, New York City, USA | ©️ CetraRuddy Architecture
(29) The Independent, Austin, USA | ©️ Rhode Partners
(30) The Proscenium - Lincoln Tower, Makati, Philippines | ©️ Rockwell Land Corporation
(31) TrIIIple Tower 2, Vienna, Austria | ©️ KS Ingenieure ZT GmbH

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