High-Rise And Urban Innovations Awarded By CTBUH

At its 17th annual awards program, the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat named Salesforce Tower in San Francisco "Best Tall Building Worldwide", plus winners across 20 award categories.

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) announced the winners of the 17th Annual CTBUH Awards Program. These winning projects — comprising tall buildings, urban developments, and technical innovations — competed for winning distinctions at the 2019 Tall + Urban Innovation Conference from April 8-10, 2019 in Shenzhen.tall buildings

The CTBUH Awards Jury has named Salesforce Tower in San Francisco the “Best Tall Building Worldwide”, in addition to naming Category Winners across 20 award categories.

Described by Best Tall Building Jury Chair Karl Fender, Founding Partner, Fender Katsalidis Architects, as a “building that gives back,” Salesforce Tower was recognized for its multipronged focus on occupant health, sustainability, structural efficiency, and a significant level of integration with the surrounding urban habitat. The result is not just a contribution to the city skyline, but a highly successful exercise in human-centric and resilient design for tall buildings

Salesforce Tower was selected from the “Best Tall Building” track, which falls into five height thresholds: under 100 meters, 100–199 meters, 200–299 meters, 300–399 meters, and 400 meters and above. Additional categories include: Urban Habitat, Innovation, Renovation, Interior Space, and Construction, alongside five categories focused specifically on Engineering achievements.

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The Salesforce Tower project team pictured with their CTBUH Best Tall Building Worldwide trophy. From left to right: John Jacobs, CTBUH; Edward Dionne, Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects; Paul Paradis, Hines Interests LP; Ron Klemencic, Magnusson Klemencic Associates; and Best Tall Building Jury Chair Karl Fender, Fender Katsalidis Architects.

The CTBUH Annual Awards program recognizes projects and individuals that have made extraordinary contributions to the advancement of tall buildings and the urban environment, and that achieve sustainability at the highest and broadest level. The objective is to deliver a comprehensive and sophisticated view of these important buildings, spaces, and technologies, while advocating for improvements in every aspect of their performance, especially those that have the greatest effect on the people who use them each day.

17th Annual CTBUH Awards Program Winners

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Salesforce Tower, San Francisco, CA (Photo: Jason O’Rear)

Best Tall Building
Worldwide 
Winner:
Salesforce Tower, San Francisco

Best Tall Building <100 Meters
Category Winner:
Forma Itaim, São Paulo

Award of Excellence Winners 

Emblem, Sydney
Kampung Admiralty, Singapore
Lè Architecture, Taipei
The Opus, Dubai

Best Tall Building 100–199 Meters

Category Winner: Amorepacific Headquarters, Seoul

Award of Excellence Winners 

Baidu Headquarters, Shenzhen
Crystal Laputa Towers, Chengdu
DUO, Singapore
European Patent Office, Rijswijk
Manhattan Loft Gardens, London
Morpheus, Macau
One Park Taipei, Taipei

Best Tall Building 200–299 Meters

Category Winner: Shenzhen Energy Headquarters, Shenzhen

Award of Excellence Winners 

181 Fremont, San Francisco
277 Fifth Avenue, New York City

Best Tall Building 300–399 Meters 

Category Winner: Salesforce Tower, San Francisco

Award of Excellence Winners
China Resources Tower, Shenzhen
Jumeirah Nanjing Hotel & International Youth Cultural Centre, Nanjing
King Power MahaNakhon, Bangkok

Best Tall Building ≥400 Meters

Category Winner: Ping An Finance Center, Shenzhen

Award of Excellence Winner
CITIC Tower, Beijing

Best Tall Office Building 

Category Winner: European Patent Office, Rijswijk

Best Tall Residential or Hotel Building 

Category Winner: 277 Fifth Avenue, New York City

Best Tall Mixed-Use Building 

Category Winner: Kampung Admiralty, Singapore

Urban Habitat: Single-Site Scale

Category Winner: Kampung Admiralty, Singapore

Award of Excellence Winners 

150 North Riverside, Chicago
Tanjong Pagar Centre, Singapore

District/Master Plan Scale
Category Winner: Central Park, Sydney

Award of Excellence Winners 

Changsha Jinmao Meixi International Plaza, Changsha
One Shenzhen Bay, Shenzhen
UNI-Center, Shenzhen

Innovation Award 

Category Winner: Viscoelastic Coupling Damper (VCD)

Award of Excellence Winners 

Building Maintenance Unit and Vertical Delivery Planning at H Queen’s
Parametric Digital Strategy for Morpheus
Robotic Installation System for Elevators
Self-Climbing Kokoon®
The Development of EFFECT

Renovation Award 

Category Winner: CHAO Hotel, Beijing

Award of Excellence Winners 

Five Manhattan West, New York City
Torre Europa, Madrid

Interior Space Award

Category Winner: Amorepacific Headquarters, Seoul

Award of Excellence Winners 

Jumeirah Nanjing Hotel & International Youth Cultural Centre, Nanjing
The Central Bank of Kuwait New Headquarters Building, Kuwait City

Construction Award 

Category Winner: Atira La Trobe Street, Melbourne

Award of Excellence Winners
Hanking Center Tower, Shenzhen
Jumeirah Nanjing Hotel & International Youth Cultural Centre, Nanjing

Structural Engineering 

Category Winner: 181 Fremont, San Francisco

Award of Excellence Winners 

CITIC Tower, Beijing
Manhattan Loft Gardens, London
Wilshire Grand Center, Los Angeles
YC Condominiums, Toronto

MEP Engineering 

Category Winner: Britam Tower, Nairobi

Award of Excellence Winners 

181 Fremont, San Francisco
Amorepacific Headquarters, Seoul
Raffles City Hangzhou, Hangzhou
Salesforce Tower, San Francisco

Geotechnical Engineering 

Category Winner: 181 Fremont, San Francisco

Award of Excellence Winners
Avalon Brooklyn Bay, New York City
Panorama Tower, Miami

Façade Engineering

Category Winner: Azrieli Sarona Tower, Tel Aviv

Award of Excellence Winners 

10 Hudson Yards, New York City
Gaia Building, Quito 
Vanke Jierong Tower, Shenzhen

Fire & Risk Engineering
Category Winner: Morpheus Hotel & Resort at City of Dreams, Macau

Award of Excellence Winners
181 Fremont Tower, San Francisco
Ping An Finance Center, Shenzhen

10-Year Award 

Category Winner: The Pinnacle@Duxton, Singapore

Award of Excellence Winners 

Broadcasting Place, Leeds
Linked Hybrid, Beijing