The top new skyscrapers, engineering feats, and urban habitats recognized with CTBUH's 2020 Awards of Excellence

A wide selection of new tall build buildings, urban planning schemes, and engineering innovations has been unveiled as Award of Excellence Winners in the annual Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat awards program. 

Projects in the "Best Tall Building" track were recognized in the five height thresholds: under 100 meters, 100–199 meters, 200–299 meters, 300–399 meters, and 400 meters and above. The "Best in Category" winners will be chosen next April at CTBUH's 2020 Tall + Urban Innovation Conference in Chicago.

Gaining recognition in more than one category were Miami's One Thousand Museum and the recently opened Beijing Leeza SOHO tower with its record-setting tall atrium, both designed by Zaha Hadid Architects, Raffles City Chongqing by Moshe Safdie's firm, Lakhta Center by RMJM, and the SOM-designed 1,740 ft/530.4 m tall Tianjin CTF Finance Centre among others.

Read on for the complete list of award winners.

Best Tall Building under 100 meters

• 25 King, Brisbane
• 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
• 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
• Maike Centre, Xi’an
• NEMA Chicago, Chicago
• One Thousand Museum, Miami

Best Tall Building 300-399 meters

• 53 West 53, New York City
• Comcast Technology Center, Philadelphia
• Poly Pazhou, Guangzhou
• Zhuhai Tower, Zhuhai

Best Tall Building 400 meters and above

• CITIC Tower, Beijing
• 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
• The Clement Canopy, Singapore
• Tianjin CTF Finance Centre, Tianjin

Facade 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
• 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

To learn more about each winning project, click here.