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UPCOMING EVENTS |
| H&V News’ annual conference on Building Services for Tall Buildings |
| 12 February, 2009, Barbican Centre, London, UK |
 Tall buildings present a host of unique challenges, not least for the building services industry, with the design and construction of these modern day skyscrapers pushing boundaries and breaking new heights...more |
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| 2nd Annual High-Rise Buildings Conference |
| 12-13 Feb 2009, London, UK |
 Attend the 2nd annual edition of this pan-European case study driven comprehensive forum for all the construction, architecture and property development experts...more |
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| Super Slender Midtown Towers |
| 19 Feb 2009, New York, USA |
 The Skyscraper Museum presents: "Hong Kong slender" describes a type of pencil-thin tower common in "Asia's Manhattan" and recently returned to the New York scene. The Skyscraper Museum presents a program architects, engineers, and developers explaining the equation of aesthetics,...more |
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| 2009 Khan Lecture Series |
| 20 Feb 2009, Lehigh University |
 The 2009 Kahn Lecture series presents three distinguished presenters;
1st Lecture: LESLIE E. ROBERTSON “The Architect and the Structural Engineer – Partners in Design” - Friday, February 20, 2009 – 4:10 pm…more
2nd Lecture: WILLIAM F. BAKER “Engineering the World’s Tallest: Burj Dubai” - Friday, March 20, 2009 – 4:10 pm…more
3rd Lecture: BRUCE R. ELLINGWOOD “Abnormal Loads & Progressive Collapse – Assessment & Mitigation of Risk” - Friday, April 17, 2009 – 4:10 pm…more |
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| Eweek Expo |
| 21 Feb 2009, IIT, Chicago, USA |
 This program includes activities that are free and open to the public. You are invited to explore engineering with members of the Chicagoland engineering community. This event promises to be something very special as this year marks the 25th anniversary of the program...more |
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| Vertical Cities: Hong Kong & New York |
| Ongoing through Feb 2009, Skyscraper Museum, New York |
 Vertical Cities will examine the parallels during two major development booms and defining moments in the vertical identity of each city: New York in the 1920s and 1960s and Hong Kong in the mid-1980s-1990s and today For more information visit here |
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| RETECH Renewable Energy Technology Conference |
| 25-27 Feb 2009, Las Vegas |
 This three-day technology conference and exhibition features a trade show with 250+ exhibitors and six tracks of top CEO-led business conference sessions by technology, as well as multiple business-to-business side events. For more information visit here |
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| SEI/ASCE Structures Congress |
| 30 Apr - 2 May 2009, Austin, TX |
This congress will include a CTBUH session which will focus on the latest advances in the field of the seismic design of tall buildings, presenting and illustrating the design recommendations from the CTBUH Seismic Design Working group, which are intended for application around the globe across all levels of seismic hazard.....more |
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For a full list of upcoming and recent events, click here |
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CTBUH IN THE MEDIA |
Europe's Height-Record Buster Is on Russia's Cutting Edge
December 15, ENR |
Bahrain World Trade Center wins Best Tall Building in MENA region
November 27, AME Info |
Chicago group names Shanghai World Financial Center the world's top tall building for 2008
November 22, Chicago Tribune |
| To see more CTBUH in the Media articles, click here. |
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NEW MEMBERS |
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Faithful + Gould |
Bouygues Construction |
PPG Industries |
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UPGRADED MEMBERS |
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| Blume Foundation |
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Weidlinger Associates, Inc. |
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TOP NEWS |
| Second Annual Edition of CTBUH / John Wiley & Sons Journal released |
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CTBUH 2008 Report / 2009 Membership Brochure Released |
 The papers contained in this year’s CTBUH 2nd Annual Special Edition of the The Structural Design of Tall and Special Buildings continue the theme and dialogue started at the CTBUH 8th World Congress in Dubai ...more |
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 In 2008 the CTBUH organizational member network included 387,584 individuals working in 3,209 offices around the world: architects, engineers, developers, building owners, urban planners, etc. To view the full report and see more on CTBUH membership clickhere. |
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INTERNATIONAL TALL BUILDING NEWS |
MVRDV wins Seoul new town competition
MVRDV, which produced the design with British engineer Arup, said each floor of the buildings would have a terrace planted with box hedges, creating a recognisable park feature. This vertical park is designed to improve the climate and ventilation as well as reduce energy and water usage...link |
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Mixed use tower set to reinvent Philadelphia skyline
What has been a parking lot for over 20 years between 18th and Arch in the centre of Philly might soon become the location of the tallest skyscraper in the city and the third tallest in the USA. Developer Hill International Real Estate Partners has chosen architects Kohn Pedersen Fox to design the 460 meter-tall American Commerce Center...link |
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Eco home projects get the green light
Sustainability is an important selling feature for some residential projects now going on sale in Dubai. Take the Atrium, a 68-storey skyscraper which will produce 1.725m kWh of renewable energy each year from solar hot water and photo-voltaic panels and wind turbines. There will also be a centralised recycling system, car pooling and specially designated parking slots for hybrids...link |
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City approves Foggo's can of ham
Foggo Associates' 90m-tall commercial building in the City of London has won planning approval, despite objections from Cabe and the City Heritage Society. The building, nicknamed the “can of ham”, will replace two existing buildings on St Mary Axe in the east of the city...link |
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Daniel Libeskind's 54-story condos are more like a 54-story garden
In a city full of steel and glass, a green tower like the 54-story skyscraper proposed by architect Daniel Libeskind would certainly shake things up. His proposed condominium, standing over 900 feet tall, would make use of sky gardens on many of the floors, with a glass-tube-enclosed vertical garden running up the center of the skyscraper..link |
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China Express
Despite the downturn, China is still the place to be for Western architects seeking large-scale work and a meaningful role in the global architectural dialogue. Check in with California firms doing business in this complex, frenetic market, and find that technology helps them thrive, yet also opens the door to new challenges amid Asia's fast-forward culture of building...link |
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Click here to go to the CTBUH news archive for more current international tall buildings news coverage |
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NEWS FROM THE COUNCIL |
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Chairman's Message
CTBUH Chairman David Scott is pleased to wish all Members of the Council, newsletter readers and visitors to the CTBUH website a Happy and Prosperous New Year for 2009 and discusses the Council's plans for the upcoming year...more
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CTBUH Tour the Aqua Tower, Chicago
The Aqua Tower will be one of the most striking architectural designs in Chicago with its one-of-a-kind form measuring 874 feet in height. Although it is listed as an 82-story structure, it will actually rise 88 stories from ground level...more
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Antony Wood Presentation at the 'Chicago Humanities Festival'
As part of the 'Chicago Humanities Festival' held in Chicago on the 2nd of November 2008, Antony Wood, CTBUH Executive Director, gave the presentation 'Tall, Taller, Tallest!'...watch the video
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Chris Karidis Design Research Studio on the CTBUH website
Professor Karidis’ studio focuses on tall building function, space, form, structure and envelope confronted as architectural problems. Emphasis is on the integration of all building systems and the consideration of their effect on architectural form...more
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Latest CTBUH Journal Issue 3, 2008 Released
The final issue of 2008 includes a number of new items such as a letters to the editor page, an extended global news section, reports from the CTBUH Awards Dinner and reports from other recent conferences and events...more
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Best Tall Buildings 2008 Book
To celebrate this year’s CTBUH Award winners, the Council has published this 128 page book in conjunction with publisher Elsevier / Architectural Press...more
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OTHER INDUSTRY NEWS |
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UNL architectural students give West Haymarket area a futuristic makeover...more |
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Burj Dubai is now over 780 Metres and Climbing...more |
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Experts Propose Green Building Code (Doha)...more |
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Proposed 25-story luxury condo tower bites dust (Houston)...more |
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Chicago's architectural worsts of 2008...more |
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Meeras Tower Rounds Off Sextuplet Of Megatalls (Dubai)...more |
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FARO design for sustainable community (Almere)...more |
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Downturn Ends Building Boom in New York...more |
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Climb your Dormitory (Netherlands)...more |
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Skyscraper on schedule (Calgary)...more |
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Cardiff’s Bay Point skyscraper plans bite the dust...more |
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High-rise buildings report sent to CS (Lahore)...more |
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Battersea tower cutback a 'diversion': campaigners (London)...more |
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Sheraton Dallas hotel undergoing $90 million renovation...more |
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Chilling developments in Dubai...more |
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Dial M For Moscow...more |
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Chengdu rebuilds under new guise...more |
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Hyderabad may have the first iconic superstructure...more |
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ECO•LABORATORY: Seattle’s Exemplary Eco Community...more |
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World-class hotel in heart of New Town...more |
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Devon Energy Skyscraper Improves Downtown (Oklahoma City)...more |
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MVVA Designs Hudson Park and Boulevard (New York)...more |
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"America's Greenest" Residential High-Rise Unveiled in New York...more |
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Renzo Piano: the top of his game (London)...more |
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Denton Corker Marshall receive just deserts (Birmingham)...more |
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Liverpool Plans New Tall Buildings Policy...more |
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A-cero's Interior Design for Cesar Pelli's New Skyscraper in Madrid...more |
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Fatal reflections (Boston)...more |
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HOK announce major new development to regenerate historic city (St. Petersburg)...more |
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High-rise headache (Chicago)...more |
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Council fights high-rise plan (Manama)...more |
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The Trump Tower spire: An in-depth look at design, fabrication and structural support (Chicago)...more |
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Nothing Kinky About Shenzens Kingkey Tower...more |
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Super Tall Burj Dubai Is Nor Shaharom's Pride...more |
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Citi Doesn’t Live Here Anymore as Name Comes Off NYC Skyscraper...more |
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Libeskind Towers Set To Rise In Busan...more |
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Abu Dhabi Offers New Oasis for U.K. Engineers as Dubai Dries Up...more |
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Skyscraper ruling set to force planning re-think (London)...more |
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Strike Out: MLB's 125th Street Tower Project Canceled (New York)...more |
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Fosters Abu Dhabi WTC Gets Underway...more |
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VAN DER RYN: Being green is not just stuff of dreams (USA)...more |
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Middle East special: The rise and rise of Persian Gulf architecture (Dubai)...more |
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After the World comes the Universe (Dubai)...more |
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Modern skyscraper gets award (Salt Lake City)...more |
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Green Guide ‘flawed’, says lobby group (Philadelphia)...more |
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Waterfront city underway in Abu Dhabi...more |
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Burj Dubai to stand tallest for at least a decade...more |
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Who'd be a tenant in new skyscraper? (Philadelphia)...more |
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Exclusive: David Cook — No, Not the American Idol — Explains What Green Architecture Really Means...more |
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Signature Tower won't be 70 stories (Nashville)...more |
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HKS take 'hospitality' literally (Abu Dhabi)...more |
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Stockholm’s Revitalized Green City Center...more |
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Here Today Gan Tomorrow (Paris)...more |
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Foster and Hadid to redesign Mecca...more |
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New skyscraper part of downtown Dallas project...more |
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Bulging Shenzen Supertall Approved...more |
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Herzog & de Meuron's TriBeca High-Rise Promo Art-Film by Tronic Studio (New York)...more |
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Is a little history worse than none? (Toronto)...more |
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UAE will hit new heights...more |
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Tower power! Local panel is high on Greenpoint skyscraper (New York)...more |
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Green building founder in UAE venture...more |
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The Return of the Skyscraper Index...more |
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Fewer but better high rises recommended (Malta)...more |
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