Over 100 projects selected as CTBUH Award of Excellence winners for 2024

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH)’s 2024 Award of Excellence winners have been presented following a three-month juried selection process that awarded winners in 20 categories.

This year’s cohort is said to be evocative of the "paradigm shift in design and construction practices." CTBUH’s CEO Javier Quintana de Uña said the submissions "showcase the wide spectrum of architectural innovations, construction techniques and urban visions transforming tall-building design internationally, as well as the evolving role of livable density in shaping our cities and skylines."

"As someone who has been immersed in the field for a number of years, I was both astounded and heartened by the varied and groundbreaking ideas articulated in the evaluated projects," Julia Köhler, a structural engineer and member of the Innovation category jury, added candidly. 

Winners of the 21st edition of the Award of Excellence will next be vetted as part of the CTBUH 2024 International Conference, which takes place in London and Paris from September 23rd through 27th. There, an overall winner of each category will be crowned, along with the headlining Best Tall Building and the new Global Community Award, which was introduced this year.

Over 100 projects were selected in the 2024 cycle. Check out the full list:

BEST TALL BUILDING BY HEIGHT

Best Tall Building under 100 meters

• Aviv Limited Edition - Tel Aviv, Israel 
• Boston University Center for Computing & Data Sciences - Boston, MA 
• Kaktus Towers - Copenhagen, Denmark 
• Q Residences - Amsterdam, Netherlands
• T3 Collingwood - Melbourne, Australia
• The Canyon at Mission Rock - San Francisco, CA
• (W)rapper - Los Angeles, CA
• YOFC Headquarters - Wuhan, China

Best Tall Building 100-199 meters

• 8 Spadina at The Well - Toronto, Canada
• 88 Walker - Sydney, Australia 
• 443 Queen Street - Brisbane, Australia
• Alberni by Kengo Kuma - Vancouver, Canada 
• Alcove - Nashville, TN 
• HD Hyundai Global R&D Center - Seongnam, South Korea 
• Pan Pacific Orchard - Singapore
• Qianjiang Century City A-07 Plot - Hangzhou, China 
• Studio City Phase 2 - Macau, China
• Unipol Tower - Milan, Italy
• Upper House - Brisbane, Australia

Best Tall Building 200-299 meters

• 6 & 8 Parramatta Square - Parramatta, Australia 
• 8 Bishopsgate - London, UK
• Chongqing Gaoke Taiyangzuo - Chongqing, China
• Fubon Xinyi A25 Tower and Art Museum - Taipei, Taiwan
• Hangzhou Wangchao Center - Hangzhou, China
• M1 & M2 - Mississauga, Canada 
• Salesforce Tower - Chicago, IL
• Shenzhen Capital Plaza - Shenzhen, China
• The World Towers - Mumbai, India

Best Tall Building 300 meters and above

• Greenland Hangzhou Century Center - Hangzhou, China
• Mori JP Tower - Tokyo, Japan
• One Za'abeel - Dubai, UAE
• The Brooklyn Tower - Brooklyn, NY
• Uptown Tower - Dubai, UAE

BEST TALL BUILDING BY REGION

Best Tall Building Americas

• Barrio W - Monterrey, Mexico
• Boston University Center for Computing & Data Sciences - Boston, MA
• CIBC Square I - Toronto, Canada
• John A. Paulson Center - New York, NY 
• SickKids Patient Support Centre - Toronto, Canada
• The Brooklyn Tower - Brooklyn, NY
• The Canyon at Mission Rock - San Francisco, CA

Best Tall Building Asia

• Greenland Hangzhou Century Center - Hangzhou, China
• Hangzhou Wangchao Center - Hangzhou, China 
• HD Hyundai Global R&D Center - Seongnam, South Korea
• Mori JP Tower - Tokyo, Japan
• New Development Bank - Shanghai, China 
• Pan Pacific Orchard - Singapore 

Best Tall Building Europe

• 8 Bishopsgate - London, UK
• Caleido - Madrid, Spain 
• Kaktus Towers - Copenhagen, Denmark

Best Tall Building Middle East & Africa

• Da Vinci - Tel Aviv, Israel
• Discount Group Campus - Rishon Leziyyon, Israel 
• One Tower - Ramat Gan, Israel 
• One Za'abeel - Dubai, UAE
• Uptown Tower - Dubai, UAE

Best Tall Building Oceania 

• 6 & 8 Parramatta Square - Parramatta, Australia
• 88 Walker - Sydney, Australia
• 443 Queen Street - Brisbane, Australia 
• T3 Collingwood - Melbourne, Australia

Urban Habitat Award

• 9th Hangzhou Asian Games Athletes Village Waterfront - Hangzhou, China 
• Al Wasl Plaza - Dubai, UAE
• Aleste - Curridabat, Costa Rica
• Battersea Power Station Phase Two - London, UK 
• Caleido - Madrid, Spain 
• Concord CityPlace - Toronto, Canada
• Greenford Quay - London, UK

Future Project Award

• 55 Bishopsgate - London, UK
• 175 Park Avenue - New York, NY
• Centre Block Rehabilitation - Ottawa, Canada
• Dubai Art Museum - Dubai, UAE
• Hunter Pitt Hybrid Timber Tower - Sydney, Australia 
• North Bund Tower - Shanghai, China
• Treehouse - Hong Kong, China

10 Year Award

• Bosco Verticale - Milan, Italy
• One Central Park - Sydney, Australia 
• One World Trade Center - New York, NY
• The Leadenhall Building - London, UK
• The Point - Guayaquil, Ecuador

Construction Award

• Avenue South Residence - Singapore
• Battersea Power Station Phase Two - London, UK
• College Road (Enclave: Croydon) - London, UK
• LIFTbuild (eXchange) - Detroit, MI
• Uptown Tower - Dubai, UAE

Repositioning Award

• B201 (Social Sciences Building) - Auckland, New Zealand
• Book Tower - Detroit, MI
• Hylo - London, UK
• One Wall Street - New York, NY
• Torre Glorieta Cibeles - Mexico City, Mexico
• Tour Ariane - Puteaux, France

Innovation Award

• Avenue South Residence - Singapore
• Energy-generating Façade with Integrated Solar Panels - Seoul, South Korea
• KONE SiteFlow
• Limberlost Place – Mass Timber Structure and Prefab Envelope System for Tall Institutional Building - Toronto, Canada
• Marunouchi Tokio Marine - Tokyo, Japan
• Thought leadership: A Model for a Sustainable and Regenerative Tower
• Voided Post-Tensioned Slabs
• WSP’s Steel-Timber (CLT) Hybrid Composite Floor System

Structure Award

• 21 Moorfields - London, UK
• China Enterprise Future Century Towers - Shanghai, China
• Hylo - London, UK
• Limberlost Place - Toronto, Canada
• Merdeka 118 - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 
• Salesforce Tower - Sydney, Australia 
• Seascape - Auckland, New Zealand

Façade Award

• Discount Group Campus - Rishon Leziyyon, Israel
• Lusail Plaza Towers - Doha, Qatar
• One Tower - Ramat Gan, Israel
• Paddington Square - London, UK
• Piraeus Tower - Piraeus, Greece
• Shard Place - London, UK

Systems Award

• AIRSIDE at Kai Tak - Hong Kong, China
• B201 (Social Sciences Building) - Auckland, New Zealand
• Greenland Hangzhou Century Center - Hangzhou,  China
• HD Hyundai Global R&D Center - Seongnam, South Korea
• Lusail Plaza Towers - Doha, Qatar

Space Within Award

• 2100 Pennsylvania Avenue - Washington, D.C. 
• JR Kumamoto Station Building - Kumamoto, Japan
• Pan Pacific Orchard - Singapore
• Upper House - Brisbane, Australia

Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Award

• Diversifying the Talent Pipeline (Turner Construction Company)
• Empowering People (KONE)
• Equitable Transit Oriented Development Strategy Study (Perkins & Will)
• La Central (FXCollaborative Architects)
• The Williams & Russell Project (Adre)