CTBUH announces record-breaking round of 2023 Award of Excellence winners

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) has announced a record-breaking number of winning projects as part of their 2023 Award of Excellence program.

Featuring over 100 total built and yet-to-be-realized designs that span the global landscape of architecture across a wide gamut of typologies, clientele, and social intentions, the list looks annually to celebrate projects that “adopt the most innovative approaches and solutions to some of the most pressing challenges.”

CTBUH’s CEO Javier Quintana de Uña commented: “All of this year’s Award of Excellence winners demonstrate that it is possible to consider state-of-the-art technical solutions, transportation, public and cultural institutions, green spaces, commercial enterprises and other crucial infrastructure holistically and adapt them broadly and equitably for positive, sustainable outcomes.”

Each winner will now go on to compete for “best in category” distinctions at the CTBUH 2023 International Conference, held from October 16th to the 21st in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur. 

“The most successful cities in the future will intrinsically weave the natural world into the urban fabric to not only address climate change but also support ecological biodiversity,” HKS Principal and Future Project category juror Julie Hiromoto commented finally. 

Here are the projects in their selected categories.

BEST TALL BUILDING BY HEIGHT

Best Tall Building under 100 meters

• 800 Fulton Market - Skidmore, Owings & Merrill 
• Easyhome Huanggang Vertical Forest City
• Proud Kanda Surugadai - Takenaka Corporation
• Sara Kulturhus - White Arkitekter

Best Tall Building 100-199 meters

Best Tall Building 100-199 meters

• 80 Ann Street - Woods Bagot
• Atlantis The Royal Resort - Kohn Pedersen Fox
• DC Tower III - KS Ingenieure
• Éclat Resort - Beijing Institute of Architectural Design (BIAD)
• REN - Glotman Simpson Consulting Engineers
• Toranomon Hills Residential Tower - Ingenhoven Architects
• Valley - MVRDV

Best Tall Building 200-299 meters

• 425 Park Avenue - Foster + Partners
• BBCC Lucentia Residential Towers
• CapitaSpring - Carlo Ratti with Bjarke Ingels Group
• DJI Sky City - Foster + Partners
• Premier Tower - Elenberg Fraser
• Quay Quarter Tower - 3XN
• Shandong Port Tower - von Gerkan, Marg and Partners Architects (GMP)
• The Spiral - Bjarke Ingels Group 

Best Tall Building 300-399 meters

• Shenzhen Bay Innovation and Technology Centre - RMJM
• Shenzhen Center, Dabaihui Plaza -  Kohn Pedersen Fox
• SLS Dubai - Aedas

Best Tall Building 400 meters and above

Guangxi China Resources Tower - Goettsch Partners

BEST TALL BUILDING BY REGION

Best Tall Building Americas

• 2050 M Street - REX
• 425 Park Avenue - Foster + Partners
• Block 185 - Pelli Clarke & Partners
• Engineering Laboratories | Pontificia Universidad Javeriana - Juan Pablo Ortiz Arquitectos and TALLER Architects
• One Willoughby Square - FXCollaborative
• REN
• The Spiral - Bjarke Ingels Group 
• Torre Mitikah - Pelli Clarke & Partners

Best Tall Building Asia

• 1 Corporate Avenue - Pelli Clarke & Partners
• CapitaSpring - Bjarke Ingels Group and Carlo Ratti 
• DJI Sky City - Foster + Partners
• Ping An Asset Tower - AI PlanetWorks
• Proud Kanda Surugadai - Takenaka Corporation
• Shenzhen Center, Dabaihui Plaza - Kohn Pedersen Fox
• Shimao Hangzhou Wisdom Towers - Atelier Ping Jiang I EID Arch
• SkyParc @ Dawson - Design Link Architects

Best Tall Building Europe

• Sara Kulturhus - White Arkitekter
• Tour Aurore Renovation
• Valley - MVRDV

Best Tall Building Middle East & Africa

• Atlantis The Royal Resort - Kohn Pedersen Fox
• ICD Brookfield Place - Foster + Partners
• Tadawul Tower - Nikken Sekkei

Best Tall Building Oceania

• 405 Bourke Street - Woods Bagot
• A by Adina - Matthew Morel
• Poly Centre - Grimshaw Architects
• Premier Centre - Elenberg Fraser
• Quay Quarter Tower - 3XN
• Te Toki i te Rangi, Commercial Bay - Warren and Mahoney
• The One, Brisbane Quarter - Kurokawa Kisho

Best Tall Non-Building

• Kuantan 188 - Meinhardt
• Lotus Tower - Civil and Structural Engineering Consultants (Pvt.) Ltd

Urban Habitat Award

• Art Village and Mall in Shapu 
• Asian Games 2022 Masterplan 
• Chang’An Mills 
• China Resources Qianhai Center
• Midtown Tel Aviv 
• Nanjing Jiangbei Wondercity
• SMU Connexion 
• Te Toki i te Rangi, Commercial Bay

Future Project Award

• Shenton Way Redevelopment - Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
• 307 Lake Shore Boulevard East - BDP Quadrangle
• 4th & Harrison - HOK, Inc.
• 50 Fenchurch Street - Eric Parry Architects
• Absorbent Sand Storm Skyscraper - Kalbod Design Studio
• C6 Perth - Elenberg Fraser 
• China Overseas Suzhou Supertall Project - Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
• Fifteen Fifteen - Buro Ole Scheeren
• STH BNK by Beulah - UNStudio with Cox Architecture
• Taikoo Green Ribbon - Arup

10 Year Award

• Marina Bay Suites - Kohn Pedersen Fox
• Pearl River Tower - Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
• The Interlace - RSP Architects Planners & Engineers
• Tour Carpe Diem - Robert A.M. Stern Architects

Construction Award

• CITYMARK CENTRE - Kohn Pedersen Fox
• Quay Quarter Tower - 3XN
• Riviere Condo 
• Robotic Elevator Installation in Uptown Tower - Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture
• Ziraat Towers, Istanbul International Finance Center - Kohn Pedersen Fox

Repositioning Award

• 99 Gerrard
• Blue at Lavender Bay
• Quay Quarter Tower - 3XN
• Tour Aurore Renovation - Setec TPI

Innovation Award

• CELIA: IOT-enabled framework
• China Overseas Headquarters
• Cold Fusion Cement
• MetaCore
• Urban Sequoia NOW
• Use of Robotics in Construction of Mass-Engineered Timber Buildings

Structure Award

• 8 Willis Street - Architecture Plus
• Ascent - Korb + Associates Architects (with Thornton Tomasetti)
• Quay Quarter Tower - 3XN
• Silex² - Terrell Group
• Umeda Garden - Hiroshi Hara

Systems Award

• 11 Skies - Lead8
• 50 Hudson Yards - Foster + Partners
• CapitaSpring (Façade System) - Arup
• CapitaSpring (MEP System) - Arup
• Ping An Asset Tower - AI PlanetWorks
• Xinhu Hangzhou Prism - VS-A Group
• Okinawa Cellular Forest Building - Nikken Sekkei
• Quay Quarter Tower - 3XN

Space Within Award

• CME Center, 10 South Wacker - Krueck + Sexton Architects
• Quay Quarter Tower - 3XN

Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Award

• Covenant House New York
• Mary's Place Family Shelter
• Neurodiverse Work Experience Programme - Build Your Own House