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CTBUH Tall Building Newsletter August 2013
Top CTBUH News Book Now for Awards Events Book now for the November 7 event honoring Best Tall Buildings, Innovation, 10-Year and Lifetime Achievement recipients. Thailand & Indonesia Chapters Launch CTBUH global outreach campaign grows with chapter launch events on site at Thailand’s and Indonesia’s future tallest buildings. Global Tall Building News Follow Us:    China Broad Breaks Ground on Sky City – Or Does It? The company hoping to build the world's tallest skyscraper in record time held a groundbreaking ceremony on Saturday, July 20, in Changsha, China. But since then, media reports have circulated claiming that Broad Sustainable Building has failed to obtain government approval for the project. TELUS Launches Sky Tower by BIG TELUS, one of Canada's largest telecommunications companies, is set to begin construction on a 58-story tower in Calgary's downtown core. The TELUS Sky tower, designed by Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), will incorporate office space, retail stores and 341 residential rental suites. 50 United Nations Tops Out Manhattan's Foster + Partners-designed tower at 50 United Nations Plaza has topped out, reaching its full 44-story height in less than eight months. The building will feature 88 residences ranging from one-bedrooms to a duplex penthouse measuring nearly 10,000 square feet (929 square meters). Dubai Creek Harbor Is Happening Emaar Properties and Dubai Holdings have begun construction of their new central business district project, the Dubai Creek Harbor. The companies created the venture to develop the project in early July, and have since engaged in serious construction efforts on the site of the recession-halted Dubai Lagoons, Gulf News reports. Struggling City Pride Proposal Clears Major Hurdle The 239-meter (784-foot) tower in London's Docklands has been approved after a planning decision was unexpectedly deferred. The City Pride Tower on Westferry Road, planned by Chalegrove Properties, is expected to be the tallest residential building in the UK, and the nation's second tallest overall. Two Supertalls Squashed in Melbourne Plans to build what may have been the southern hemisphere's tallest skyscraper in Melbourne have been abandoned. Fender Katsalidis Architects has confirmed it is redesigning plans for Australia 108 after a series of code requirements rendered the proposal "impossible." News from the Council Leader’s Message: Cathy Yang Alongside the CTBUH Awards recipients, Council members’, researchers’ and staff’s persistent support of innovation also deserves recognition. Shanghai 2012 Interview Videos Now Available All 35 interview videos taken at the 2012 CTBUH World Congress in Shanghai join the full session coverage available online, displaying a wide range of expertise and insight. CTBUH Supporting World Architecture Day CTBUH is participating in World Architecture Day in New York, October 6-8, 2013. Members receive a 15% discount on admission. Canada Chapter to Visit Hullmark Centre Aug 13 Building on the inaugural Canada chapter event’s success, the chapter’s first tour will begin at the Hullmark Centre on August 13. CTBUH - IIT Panel Accepted by AAAS The CTBUH-IIT symposium "The Future of Cities: Dense or Dispersed?" will convene at the AAAS Annual Meeting, Chicago, February 2014. Research Team Tours Lifecycle Sites The CTBUH Research Team, sponsored by ArcelorMittal, visited numerous sites for recycling building materials as part of its research mission. Other Industry News RSS News Feed Opponents of Hollywood Towers Concerned Over Geologic Conditions...more Thames Tower Marked for Refurbishment...more Sheraton Huzhou to Open Its Doors...more Piling Work Underway on SOHO Tower...more Ambitious Post Office Redesign Gets Green Light from Planners...more French Urban Renewal Project Features Tower Community...more Aedas Tower to Grace Xuhui Binjian Media City...more Murdoch Company to Move to Shard's Smaller Cousin...more Peter Wynne Rees Discusses His Skyscraper Legacy...more Five-Tower UNStudio Design Wins Wenzhou CBD Competition...more Boston Developer Proposes Trinity Tower...more Google Street View Goes to Paris...more 20 Fenchurch Half-Let...more Sydney Plans New Harbor Community...more Howard Hughes Goes High in Hawaii...more The WSJ on the Global Love Affair with Tall Buildings...more Turkey Lashes Out at Tall Buildings...more Indiana Building Rouses Citywide Excitement...more Boston Redevelopment Authority Approves Hundreds of New Homes...more Jean Nouvel & Friends Win EPO Competition...more Banks to Fund Completion of Burj Al Salam Towers...more Developers Grant Sneak Peek of Energy Tower...more Jakartans Appreciate High-Rise Living...more Redesigning Sydney's Rail Yards...more Cardin Venice Project Quashed...more KPF Looks to Stretch Landmark Tower by 30 Percent...more Greenpeace Makes an Icy Statement on The Shard...more Hines Expands Houston High-Rise...more Site Chosen for World's Next Tallest Commercial Tower...more New Images of Foster + Partners' Faena House...more Major Tenant for 3WTC Means Construction Can Continue...more A Second Penthouse Appears in 432 Park...more ZHA Releases 1000 Museum Details...more Q22 Tower in Poland Inspired by Quartz Crystals...more The Stage Approved in Shoreditch...more JMB Realty Committed to Building 'LA's Greenest High Rise'...more Chevron to Build New Tower...more		New Members Upgraded Supporting Contributor Otis Elevator Company Upgraded Contributor Ronald Lu & Partners Participant Meinhardt (Thailand) Ltd. ECSD S.R.L MKPL Architects Pte Ltd Search Members by Expertise Features Building Case Study Al Hamra Firdous Tower Kuwait City Design Research Meeting • J. Esquembre Technical Paper Office vs. Residential: The Economics of Building Tall J. Barton / S. Watts Video City Planning and Tall Buildings: Custodian to 4000 Years of History P. Wynne Rees 2013 London Conference Upcoming Events Seoul City Vertical Farm and Botanical Gardens Skyscraper Online Competition - closes August 16 Bollinger + Grohmann – Behind the Scenes Deutsches Architekturmuseum, Frankfurt - until September 1 Charles Correa: India's Greatest Architect RIBA, 66 Portland Place, London - until September 4 World Architecture Day Center for Architecture, New York City - October 6-8 CTBUH Awards Symposium, Ceremony and Dinner S.R. Crown Hall, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago – November 7 CTBUH in the Media Skyscraper Builders Reach for the Stars Once Again The WSJ quotes CTBUH statistics and interviews Phillip Oldfield. Wall Street Journal, July 16 CTBUH Selects the Four Best Tall Buildings for 2013 Archinect profiles the CTBUH 2013 Best Tall Buildings award winners. Archinect, July 9 Pioneering Spirit David Scott discusses innovation in tall building engineering. New Civil Engineer, July 4
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