CTBUH Announces 2025 Award Winners for Vertical Urbanism

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) has announced the winners of its 2025 Award of Excellence competition, a robust slate of built and unbuilt projects from around the world that respond to current global challenges and demonstrate the vital role of tall buildings in the 21st century. (View the full list of winning projects […] <p>The post CTBUH Announces 2025 Award Winners for Vertical Urbanism first appeared on CCR-Mag.com.</p>

New or renew? The global debate on building reuse

Last month, the global construction community gathered at The Barbican Centre in London for the 2024 Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) International Conference to address a key question – should we continue to build new buildings, or should we focus on renewing… The post New or renew? The global debate on building reuse appeared first on Construction News.

World’s best tall building: BIG’s unique biophilic New York skyscraper

The Spiral, a 66-story commercial high-rise designed by Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), was crowned the world’s best tall building by The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH). The ziggurat-inspired building features a unique facade featuring green cascading terraces on its exterior. The post World’s best tall building: BIG’s unique biophilic New York skyscraper appeared first on Construction Specifier.

Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat Reveals Exemplary Projects

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) announced today its 2023 Award of Excellence winners, with over 100 of the year’s most exemplary projects in sustainable vertical urbanism. Projects from across the globe were recognized in more than 20 categories and subcategories, including Best Tall Building, Best Tall Non-building, Innovation, Urban Habitat, Repositioning […]

CTBUH names top architecture company of 2022

In Dec. 2022, the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) named Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) the number one architecture company for 2022. The post CTBUH names top architecture company of 2022 appeared first on Construction Specifier.

CTBUH - The State of Tall Timber: A Global Audit, February 2022

A PDF copy of CTBUH's study of Tall Timber buildings is attached below. It provides a complete list of mass timber buildings worldwide, that are eight stories and higher. These buildings are completed or 'under-construction' as of February 2022 The buildings are also shown under the following classifications: - All timber - Concrete-Steel-Timber Hybrid - Concrete-Timber Hybrid - Steel-Timber Hybrid

CTBUH - Santiago Calatrava “A Monument to the World: Dubai Creek Tower” 21102018

Santiago Calatrava speaks at the 2018 CTBUH International Conference in Dubai about the challenging ideas for the Dubai Creek Tower and some of the architectural and artistic thought for some of his previous projects (such as the Turning Torzo, Montjuic tower, Valencia Ciudad de las artes, Chicago Spire, Oculus)

CTBUH - Philadelphia Webinar: Uber Sky Tower - The Future of Urban Space, 23072020

On Thursday 23 July 2020, the CTBUH Philadelphia Chapter hosted an in-depth discussion about Uber’s vision for a next-generation urban aviation transport system. "Sky Tower," a collaboration between CTBUH members Pickard Chilton and Arup, is intended to facilitate at least 1,000 air vehicle arrivals and 1,000 departures per hour, with each vehicle accommodating up to five passengers. The provision of Sky Ports with two landing ports, mobile (EV) charging platforms, and waiting lounges

CTBUH - Tall Timber and the Future City 01042021

Antony Wood, CEO of the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, delivers the keynote presentation, 1 April 2021, at the International Mass Timber Conference (IMTC)

CTBUH 2020, Digital Series - (1) Adapting Urban Density in the Age of Pandemics 06052020

On Wednesday 6 May 2020, CTBUH hosted its first virtual lead-up event to the 2020 Singapore & Kuala Lumpur Conference. During this panel discussion, top experts investigated how the city-building industry is addressing the unprecedented challenge of COVID-19, and the concern of dense cities responsiveness to future crises.