Tag Skyscraper

25-03-2022

CTBUH Announces 2022 Best Tall Buildings

The "Best Tall Building Awards of Excellence" are given out to the best tall building projects built anywhere in the world and selected by the CTBUH jury. Among these outstanding "excellences" in design and innovation in vertical construction, the winners of each category will be selected, together with the most prestigious title, the Overall Best Tall Building Worldwide, which will be announced in November during the CTBUH international conference.

01-02-2022

Stefano Boeri Architetti designs Easyhome Huanggang Vertical Forest City Complex

The Easyhome Huanggang Vertical Forest City Complex is the first Vertical Forest designed by Stefano Boeri Architetti in China and built in the city of Huanggang, in Hubei province. The two residential towers have been completed and the first tenants have already taken possession of the new flats, which allow them to experience the city's urban space with an unusual proximity to nature.

11-10-2021

Snøhetta designs Duett Düsseldorf, a new cultural hub for Düsseldorf

Duett Düsseldorf, the project for the city of Düsseldorf's new cultural hub designed by the Snøhetta architecture studio, was unveiled recently. The chosen site is in the city centre, close to the Hofgarten park, the river Rhine and the famous and vital Königsallee street. The two iconic towers of Duett Düsseldorf will rise here, seemingly dancing together. The project will also incorporate a large roof garden open to the public, and an opera house of international standing.

18-06-2021

The carbon-absorbing vertical forest by Vincent Callebaut

Vincent Callebaut’s vertical forest in Taipei is an anti-global warming ecosystem

07-06-2021

Büro Ole Scheeren’s DUO in Singapore, a sustainable tower awarded the CTBUH Award

The DUO complex in Singapore, designed by Büro Ole Scheeren, has been presented with the Council of Tall Buildings’ Urban Habitat Award 2021 in the Single Site category. Every year, the prestigious award is given in recognition of a vertical urban habitat that fits well into its environmental and cultural surroundings, where public space is an important element of the project itself.

31-05-2021

Vancouver House designed by BIG studio named Best Tall Building Worldwide 2021

On the occasion of the 2021 Tall + Urban Innovation conference organised by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH), the winners of the 18th edition of the CTBUH Awards were announced. The jury selected the winners of the 29 categories into which the rich programme of prizes is divided, as well as naming the overall winner. For the 2021 edition of the prestigious Awards, the Best Tall Building Worldwide is the Vancouver House: a residential skyscraper designed in the Canadian city with the same name by the BIG studio, founded by Danish architect Bjarke Ingels.

18-05-2021

Königsberger Vannucchi Arquitetura MN15 Ibirapuera San Paolo

MN15 Ibirapuera is a residential skyscraper recently designed and completed by the studio of architects Gianfranco Vannucchi and Jorge Königsberger and named after nearby Ibirapuera park, one of the biggest public parks in San Paolo, Brazil, which played an important role in the design of the development.

13-05-2021

Farewell to Helmut Jahn

German architect Helmut Jahn was killed in a car accident on May 8 in Campton Hills, 100 km from Chicago, the city where he had studied and lived since the late sixties and which his architecture helped transform. Helmut Jahn designed projects all over the world; his better-known, most iconic constructions include the Sony Centre on Berlin’s Postdamer Platz and the Frankfurt Messeturm in Germany, One Liberty Place in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Suvarnabhumi International Airport in Bangkok, Thailand.