Nine high-rise projects from around the world received awards from the
Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) at the 2018
Tall + Urban Innovation Conference in Chicago. The winners were selected from more than 40 global nominees across nine categories.
Among this year’s winners were two adaptive reuse projects, both of which repurposed former silos. The first—The Silo in Copenhagen, Denmark, which received the award for Best Tall Building Europe—preserved as much of its original structure as possible and was redesigned by Danish architecture firm
COBE as a residential high-rise in a formerly industrial area.
The other adapted silo, Zeitz MOCAA in Cape Town, South Africa, took the top honor in the category of Best Tall Building Middle East & Africa. Designed by
Heatherwick Studio, with architects of record
Jacobs Parker Architects,
Rick Brown Associates, and
Van Der Merwe Miszewski Architects, the repurposed building features a luxury hotel on its upper floors and an international museum dedicated to contemporary African art on the bottom.
This year’s top honor for the Americas went to American Copper Buildings in New York City. Designed by
SHoP Architects, the dual residential buildings are connected with a skybridge, 91 m (300 ft) in the air. The bridge features a pool, which allows residents to swim between the two sites.
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