CTBUH Awards: Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat

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The CTBUH Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat based in Chicago, is a nonprofit Organism that handles currently studying Tall buildings around the world —from 10 to 12 plants—. This important Organism offers annual awards in 8 different categories: 6 reward excellence in design and construction and the other 2 to the entire career of an architect or engineer, however, the first 4 prizes listed represent Best Tall Building the Four Continents. In 2012 they created the category "Innovation Award".

CTBUH Global Icon Award, which so far only received the Burj Khalifa in Dubai in 2010, aims to reward high buildings "only" that caused a great impact on society at large, not only regionally but throughout the world, in which, apart from its great architecture, are valued as other important aspects of innovation in the planning, design, implementation and Urbanism, this award will be given only every 10 or 15 years and is only granted by the Board Members of the Council, there is no project submission in this case, and will only be given when he deserves an exceptional building.

CTBUH Awards are:

Best Tall Building Award — Americas
Best Tall Building Award — Asia and Australasia
Best Tall Building Award — Europe
Best Tall Building Award — Middle East and Africa
Best Tall Building Award — World (selected from the four regional winners)
Tall Building Award — Most Innovative Year
Lynn S. Beedle Achievement Award (no presentation)
Fazlur R. Khan Medal Award (no presentation)

Important note: This directory contains links important both to works that have been published in this blog, and link directly to the page of the CTBUH own, all with the aim of helping readers to learn first hand information high value on tall buildings which have been awarded by the CTBUH, the underlined blue text are the external links to the page itself Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat.

Website Official CTBUH (Link external)

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CTBUH Awards 2012

Doha Tower
Best Tall Building Worldwide
and Middle East & Africa
Doha, Qatar
Ateliers Jean Nouvel

Absolute Towers
Best Tall Building Americas
Mississauga, Canadá
MAD Architects

1 Bligh Street
Best Tall Building
Asia & Australasia
Sydney, Australia
ingenhoven architects;
architectus

Palazzo Lombardia
Best Tall Building
Europe
Milan, Italy
Pei Cobb Freed & Partners

Al Bahar Towers
Tall Building
Innovation Award
Abu Dhabi, UAE
Aedas





Lynn S. Beedle Achievement Award 2012
Helmut Jahn
Murphy/Jahn, Chicago, USA


Fazlur R. Khan Medal Award 2012
Charles Thornton & Richard Tomasetti
Thornton Tomasetti, New York City, USA

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CTBUH Awards 2011

KfW Westarkade
Best Tall Building
Overall & Europe
Frankfurt, Germany
Sauerbruch Hutton Architekten

Eight Spruce Street
Best Tall Building Americas
New York City, USA
Gehry Partners LLP

Guangzhou International Finance Centre
Best Tall Building Asia & Australasia
Guangzhou, China
Wilkinson Eyre Architects

The Index
Best Tall Building
Middle East & Africa
Dubai, UAE
Foster + Partners





Lynn S. Beedle Achievement Award 2011
Adrian Smith
Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture, Chicago, USA


Fazlur R. Khan Medal Award 2011
Dr. Akira Wada
Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan

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CTBUH Awards 2010

Burj Khalifa
CTBUH 2010 Global Icon Award
and Best Tall Building
Middle East & Africa
Dubai, UAE
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, SOM

Bank of America Tower
Best Tall Building Americas
New York City, USA
Cook+Fox Architecs LLP

Broadcasting Place
Best Tall Building Overall
& Europe
Leeds, England, UK
Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios

Pinnacle @ Duxton
Best Tall Building Asia
& Australasia
Singapore
ARC Studio Architecture + Urbanism






Lynn S. Beedle Achievement Award 2010
William Pedersen
Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, New York, USA


Fazlur R. Khan Medal Award 2010
Ysrael Seinuk
Ysrael A. Seinuk, PC, New York, USA

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CTBUH Awards 2009

Linked Hybrid
Best Tall Building Overall
and Asia & Australasia
Beijing, China
Steven Holl Architects

Manitoba Hydro Place
Best Tall Building Americas
Winnipeg, Canada
Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects / Smith Carter Architects and Engineers Incorporated

Tornado Tower
Best Tall Building Middle East
& Africa
Doha, Qatar
CICO Consulting Architects & Engineers / SIAT Architekten + Ingenieure München GmbH

The Broadgate Tower
Best Tall Building Europe
London, England, UK
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP






Lynn S. Beedle Achievement Award 2009
John C. Portman Jr.
John Portman & Associates, Atlanta, USA


Fazlur R. Khan Medal Award 2009
Dr. Prabodh V. Banavalkar
Ingenium, Inc., Houston, USA

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CTBUH Awards 2008

Shanghai World Financial Center
Best Tall Building Overall
and Asia & Australasia
Shanghai, China
Kohn Pedersen Fox & Associates

The New York Times Building
Best Tall Building Americas
New York City, USA
Renzo Piano Building Workshop

51 Lime Street
Best Tall Building Europe
London, England, UK
Foster + Partners

Bahrain World Trade Center
Best Tall Building Middle East
& Africa
Manama, Bahrain
WS Atkins & Partners





Lynn S. Beedle Achievement Award 2008
Cesar Pelli
Pelli Clarke Pelli, New Haven, USA


Fazlur R. Khan Medal Award 2008
William F. Baker
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP, Chicago, USA

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CTBUH Awards 2007

The Beetham Hilton Tower
Best Tall Building
Manchester, England, UK
Ian Simpson Architects

Hearst Tower
Best Tall Sustainable Building
New York City, USA
Foster + Partners






Lynn S. Beedle Achievement Award 2007
Lord Norman Foster
Foster + Partners, London, UK


Fazlur R. Khan Medal Award 2007
Dr. Farzad Naeim
John A. Martin & Associates, Los Angeles, USA

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CTBUH Awards 2006

Lynn S. Beedle Achievement Award 2006
Dr. Ken Yeang
Llewelyn Davies Yeang, UK


Fazlur R. Khan Medal Award 2006
Srinivasa "Hal" Iyengar
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP, Chicago, USA

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CTBUH Awards 2005

Lynn S. Beedle Achievement Award 2005
Dr. Alan G. Davenport
BTWL, Canada


Fazlur R. Khan Medal Award 2005
Dr. Werner Sobek
Werner Sobek Ingenieure, Germany

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CTBUH Awards 2004

Lynn S. Beedle Achievement Award 2004
Gerald D. Hines
Hines, USA


Fazlur R. Khan Medal Award 2004
Leslie E. Robertson
LERA, New York, USA

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CTBUH Awards 2003

Lynn S. Beedle Achievement Award 2003
Charles A. DeBenedittis
Tishman Speyer, New York, USA

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CTBUH Awards 2002

Lynn S. Beedle Achievement Award 2002
Lynn S. Beedle
CTBUH, Bethlehem, USA

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