The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) have announced the Award of Excellence Winners for the CTBUH 2020 Awards Program. The winning projects, representing the world's best tall buildings, urban contributions, technologies and innovations, will compete in their respective "Best in Category" distinctions at the CTBUH 2020 Tall + Urban Innovation Conference in Chicago next year.

The "Best Tall Building" category has been split into five thresholds organized by height. A number of other categories recognize aspects of the development life cycle, including construction and renovation. Other awards for innovation, lifetime achievement and 10-year distinctions will be announced in the future.

"This year's Award of Excellence Winners communicate the diversity of interdisciplinary thought and innovation that will characterize both current and future generations of urban development around the world," said Best Tall Building Jury Chair Karl Fender, Director at Fender Katsalidis Architects. "These recognitions, bestowed by the world’s premier authority on tall buildings, showcase these projects to a global audience and help drive a meaningful conversation about the quality of our urban environments."

The full list of Award of Excellence Winners:

Best Tall Building under 100 metres

Arc in Sydney, image by Tom Ferguson via CTBUH

Best Tall Building under 100-199 metres

Robinson Tower, image by Tim Griffith via CTBUH

Best Tall Building 200-299 metres

One Thousand Museum, image by Forum contributor PhillipPessar

Best Tall Building 300-399 metres

53 West 53, image by Hines via CTBUH

Best Tall Building 400 metres and above

Tianjin CTF Finance Centre, image by New World China via CTBUH

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

Lakhta Center, image by Viktor Sukharukov via CTBUH

Geotechnical Engineering Award

Interior Space Award

  • L'Oreal Headquarters, Dusseldorf
  • 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

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

DUO in Singapore, image by Buro Ole Scheeren via CTBUH

Urban Habitat Award - Single Site Scale

Urban Habitat Award - District/Master Plan Scale

  • Poly Greenland Plaza, Shanghai
  • Pudong Financial Plaza Tower 1, Shanghai

The 2020 Tall + Urban Innovation Conference will take place in Chicago from April 5-7 2020 at the Radisson Blu Aqua Hotel.

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