The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat celebrated a crop of new buildings and urban developments around the world at its 17th Annual CTBUH Awards Program in Shenzhen. The CTBUH Awards Jury has now announced the winners across 20 award categories, including the top-billed “Best Tall Building Worldwide” distinction, which was given to San Francisco‘s Salesforce Tower.

Best Tall Building Jury Chair Karl Fender, Founding Partner of Fender Katsalidis Architects, described the Salesforce Tower as a “building that gives back.” The supertall structure’s heightened focus on occupant health, sustainability, structural efficiency, and overall integration with the surrounding urban environment earned points with the jury. The building stands within a mixed-use, transit-oriented neighbourhood on a site formerly occupied by a dated transit centre.

Category winners were selected from a group of 65 Award of Excellence Winners representing 20 countries and 33 cities around the world. The list of winners is highlighted below. A complete list of winners, including Award of Excellence winners, can be found here.

Humanity has become obsessed with breaking its limits, creating new records only to break them again and again. In fact, our cities’ skylines have always been defined by those in power during every period in history. At one point churches left their mark, followed by public institutions and in the last few decades, it’s commercial skyscrapers that continue to stretch taller and taller.

But when it comes to defining which buildings are the tallest it can get complicated. Do antennas and other gadgets on top of the building count as extra meters? What happens if the last floor is uninhabitable? The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) has developed their own system for classifying tall buildings, measuring from the “level of the lowest, significant, open-air, pedestrian entrance to the architectural top of the building, including spires, but not including antennae, signage, flag poles or other functional-technical equipment.” Using this system more than 3,400 buildings have been categorized as over 150 meters tall.

We take a look at world’s 25 tallest buildings, according to the CTBUH. List updated on January 2019.

Op de hoogbouwkavel in Leidsche Rijn Centrum Noord komt het plan MARK. Een verticaal dorp van 140 meter hoog met ongeveer 1.100 huur- en koopwoningen. MARK bestaat uit 3 hoge torens van 80, 100 en 140 meter, afgewisseld met laagbouw van maximaal 25 meter hoog. Er komen ongeveer 1.100 huur- en koopwoningen met groene binnentuinen. Op verschillende niveaus in de torens kunnen bewoners elkaar ontmoeten en ontspannen. In de hoogste toren komt een rooftopbar met uitkijkpunt op een glazen balkon, voor iedereen toegankelijk. Op de begane grond komen ook werkplekken. Tussen de gebouwen in komt geen park of plein maar een nieuw type buitenruimte: een openbaar klein bos (stadswildernis). Er komt ook een ruime fietsenstalling met 3.500 parkeerplekken, deelfietsen en e-bikes.
Voor de bewoners zijn er 100 deelauto’s beschikbaar. De 3 torens krijgen een verlichte ‘kroon’ die refereert aan de geschiedenis van Leidsche Rijn als tuinbouwgebied. In deze kronen worden tuinbouwkassen geplaatst, waarin op grote schaal stadslandbouw wordt toegepast voor de bewoners en omwonenden.

Rising high above the ground, towers are the most prominent structures of modern cities. extending life from the urban streets into the sky, they reveal creative ways to solve space problems that arise in crowded urban areas. In 2018, several towers were proposed and completed by award-winning architects that reveal innovative and creative approaches to verticality. A proposal by foster + partners caused a lot of discussion, while a competition to determine who would build australia’s tallest building generated a host of potential schemes. Completed projects by BIG and zaha hadid architects also made the headlines. As we move into december, we continue our annual TOP 10 round up of the year’s most talked about projects with a look at ten proposed and completed towers featured on designboom over the past 12 months.