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CTBUH Tall Building Newsletter October 2013
Top CTBUH News CTBUH 2014 Conference: Get Involved! Call for Papers, Sponsors & Committee Members for Shanghai 2014, Sept. 16-19. Awards Dinner: Only a Few Tables Left We expect a full house – reserve today! Free Symposium attendance is still available. Global Tall Building News Follow Us: Cheongna City Tower Infinity Receives Approval GDS Architects has achieved planning approval for its "invisible" Cheongna City Tower Infinity at Incheon, just outside of Seoul, South Korea. GDS collaborated with Samoo Architects and A&U Engineering. The group's proposal was awarded first prize in a national design competition held by Korea Land Housing in April 2011. Norway's Future Tallest to Boast Cradle-to-Cradle Principles The Urban Mountain team has won the Nordic Built Challenge in Norway with a proposal that includes the refurbishment and extension of Biskop Gunnerus Gate 14 in central Oslo, creating Norway's tallest building. The design team will employ Cradle-to-Cradle principles as well as other sustainable strategies. Plans Unveiled for UN Office Tower Plans have been unveiled for a United Nations skyscraper designed by Pritzker Prize-winner Fumihiko Maki. The tower was designed to consolidate the UN's scattered operations into a single structure on First Avenue, containing office space for as many as 2,700 UN employees on the upper floors. London's Newest Tower Proposal Already Has Its Nickname Henderson Global Investors has revealed plans to build an 84,500-square meter office tower at 40 Leadenhall Street in the City of London. Plans for the 170-meter building dubbed "The Toast Rack" also include 1,900 square meters of space for shops, cafés and restaurants on the ground floor. Anonymous Buyer Nabs David Stott Building for a Low Price The 19,500-square meter David Stott Building in downtown Detroit has been sold at auction for US$8.95 million. The reddish-brown, art-deco skyscraper had a starting bid of US$3.5 million and was part of an online sell-off at Auction.com, along with the former Detroit Free Press Building which sold for US$4 million. SOM Designs Bank HQ in Dubai Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has won the commission to design the Mashreq Bank Headquarters in Dubai. The 32-story office building features a cantilevered volume at the top, creating a shape that optimizes sun-lighting in the office units in the tower. News from the Council Leader’s Message: Dennis Poon Instead of worrying about individual projects’ “success,” the tall building industry should be thinking of how modular can benefit us from multiple angles. Vanity Heights Report Gets Media Blitz The CTBUH Tall Buildings in Numbers report on Vanity Height has been taken up extensively by global media outlets. YPC Tours New Medical Tower in Chicago The CTBUH Young Professionals Committee toured the under-construction Northwestern Medicine Outpatient Care Pavilion, a 25-story new-build facility. CTBUH Qatar: Technology and Tall Buildings Ahmad Abdelrazaq of Samsung C&T Corp. will present Technological Advances in Tall and Complex Building Design and Construction: Case Studies & Best Practices on Oct. 2. CTBUH Canada Hosts Talk On Toronto’s Transition Around 50 people attended the CTBUH Canada’s breakfast meeting, The GTA, a Region in Transition, featuring analyst Iain Dobson. CTBUH Increases WAD Role CTBUH increases involvement at World Architecture Day to include a panel discussion hosted by Executive Director Antony Wood. CTBUH members are eligible for a 15% discount. Other Industry News RSS News Feed City Provides Major Funding for Northwestern Mutual Tower...more Video: Chronicling the Creation of 432 Park...more Timber Tower Gets Times Treatment...more Millennium Tower Boston Breaks Ground...more Classic Brutalist London Tower Set for Major Transformation...more Soon-to-be-Launched Dallas Arts District Tower is First of Three...more Adrian Smith for Design Intelligence...more Helsinki Plans Major Skyscraper Hub Competition...more Kansas City to Get Tall Residential Infusion...more More Than Supertall, We're Talking Galactic Heights...more Parisian Skyscraper Pair May Move Forward...more Detroit Sees First Glimmer of Office Development in Years...more McCormick Place Marriott Hotly Contested...more Chinese Curtain Wall Company to Join One the Elephant Project...more Proposed Skyscraper to Grow in LA's Historic Core...more CTBUH Credited with Coining New Term...more Developer Plans North Dakota's Tallest...more Harbin's Twin Towers to Serve as Northern Gateway...more Yansong Continues Mountain Tower Theme...more Forbes Launches Global Media Tower Initiative...more Newcastle Hastens Gold Coast Tower...more Tribune Features CTBUH Reports, Leaders on One WTC, Vanity Height...more Winnipeg's Tallest Gets Taller...more Falling Iron Halts Work in Calgary...more Latest SkyHouse Project Launched in Dallas...more “Living Building” Attracts Tenants with Zero Net-Energy Goals...more JDS Plans Another Skinny Tower on West 57th Street...more Zigzagging Tower “Twilts” to Optimize Solar Energy...more Video: Shanghai Tower in the Cloud...more Windy Leeds Tower Solution Delayed...more Designer Imagines the Toronto of the Next Decade...more 200 N. Michigan Nods to Art-Deco Neighbor...more Walkie Talkie Glare May be Melting Neighboring Vehicles...more New York Should Continue Its Tall-Building Tradition, Times Op-Ed Argues...more Obituary: Lake Point Tower's George Schipporeit Dies...more Lawsuit Attacks Millennium Towers' Integrity...more Demolition to Clear the Way for 181 Fremont...more MAD in Europe...more Farrells Master-Plans Pair of Major Developments in Shanghai...more Tema to Build Helical Hermann Place Tower...more		New Members Supporting Contributor National Engineering Bureau Upgraded Patron ThyssenKrupp AG Donor Nobutaka Ashihara Architect PC Contributor PT. Ciputra Property, Tbk Hill International Omrania & Associates Participant Ivanhoe Cambridge Renaissance Construction Search Members by Expertise Features Building Case Study Devon Energy Center Oklahoma City Research Paper Asia Agenda Olé Scheeren Video Shanghai Tower: Re-thinking the Vertical City Jianping Gu 2013 Shanghai World Congress Upcoming Events CTBUH Qatar: Technology and Tall Buildings Mövenpick Tower & Suites, Doha - October 2 World Architecture Day Center for Architecture, New York City - October 6-8 Richard Rogers: Inside Out The Royal Academy Burlington Gardens, London - until October 13 Facades+ Performance Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago - October 24–25 CTBUH Awards Symposium, Ceremony & Dinner S.R. Crown Hall, IIT, Chicago – Nov 7 Media Partner: CTBUH in the Media Aspiring to the Highest Heights Blair Kamin discusses the One WTC’s ultimate height, drawing on the recent CTBUH’s Vanity Heights study. Chicago Tribune, September 10 United Arab Emirates has “Vainest” Skyscrapers in the World CTBUH Trustee Steve Watts explains latest study on vanity heights. NBC World News, September 5 Chicago's Next Supertall Building? CTBUH’s Antony Wood was interviewed on the future of supertall construction in the city of Chicago. WBEZ, August 26
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