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Award winners and nominees are recognized at the CTBUH Annual Awards Ceremony & Dinner, celebrating the remarkable achievements of the distinguished individuals and project teams. Typically held in November each year within the historic setting of Mies van der Rohe’s iconic Crown Hall at the Illinois Institute of Technology, cocktails and a formal dinner are served as Awards are presented between courses.
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11th Annual Awards, 2012
The CTBUH announced Doha Tower (Doha, Qatar) by Ateliers Jean Nouvel as the 2012 Best Tall Building Worldwide at its 11th Annual Awards Ceremony & Dinner. The first Innovation Award was given to Al Bahar Towers. The other regional winners were also recognized (Absolute Towers, 1 Bligh Street, and Palazzo Lombardia), along with the Lifetime Achievement award winners: Helmut Jahn and jointly Charles Thornton & Richard Tomasetti.
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10th Annual Awards, 2011
The CTBUH announced KfW Westarkade (Frankfurt, Germany) by Sauerbruch Hutton architects as the 2011 Best Tall Building Worldwide at its 10th Annual Awards Ceremony & Dinner. The other regional winners were also recognized (Eight Spruce Street, Guangzhou IFC, and The Index), along with the two Lifetime Achievement award winners: Adrian Smith and Dr. Akira Wada.
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9th Annual Awards, 2010
The 9th Annual Awards Dinner and Ceremony was held in conjunction with a free afternoon’s Symposium for the first time. During the Awards Symposium, the 2010 Best Tall Building award winning projects from the four global regions were introduced by representatives from both the building owners and architects. Reflective presentations were also made upon the careers of the CTBUH 2010 Lifetime Achievement award winners.
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8th Annual Awards, 2009
The 8th Annual Awards Dinner and Ceremony was held in conjunction with the CTBUH 2009 Chicago Conference, and took place on the first evening of the conference, October 22nd at the Illinois Institute of Technology campus in Chicago, USA. The event honors the individual lifetime achievement winners and recognizes the team effort of the companies involved in each of the winning tall building project.
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7th Annual Awards, 2008
The CTBUH named the Shanghai World Financial Center as the 2008 Best Tall Building Overall at the 7th Annual Awards Dinner, held at Crown Hall in Chicago, on the 20th November 2008. The building has become an icon of Shanghai and China, with its clear and elegant form dramatic at all scales through a connection metaphorically of the earth and sky, whilst its structural design is revolutionary.
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6th Annual Awards, 2007
Now in its sixth year, the CTBUH Annual Awards Dinner took a major step up in its scope and format this year – expanding in both the number of awards recognized and the number of people in attendance. Set within the atmospheric setting of Mies van der Rohe’s iconic Crown Hall at the Illinois Institute of Technology, over 200 people joined us to celebrate the remarkable achievements of a number of distinguished individuals and project teams.
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5th Annual Awards, 2006
In 2006 the Awards Dinner was held at the Illinois Institute of Technology in conjunction with a CTBUH conference on “Thinking Outside the Box – Tapered, Tilted, Twisted Tower”. The Lynn S. Beedle Achievement Award was presented to Dr. Ken Yeang, principal of Llewelyn Davies Yeang (UK) and its sister firm, Hamzah & Yeang (Malaysia). Dr. Yeang was recognized for his work in designing signature green high-performance buildings and master plans.
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4th Annual Awards, 2005
The Council’s 7th World Congress, held at New York City’s Marriott Marquis, was the setting for the Fourth Annual Awards Dinner. Dr. Alan G. Davenport, founder and director of the Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel Laboratory at the University of Western Ontario, received the Lynn S. Beedle Achievement Award for pioneering the application of boundary layer wind tunnels to the design of wind sensitive structures and the description of urban wind climates.
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3rd Annual Awards, 2004
The Third Annual Awards Dinner once again returned to the Illinois Institute of Technology’s S. R. Crown Hall where, again, a full house of building professionals came to pay tribute to the 2004 honorees. The Lynn S. Beedle Achievement Award was presented to Mr. Gerald D. Hines, founder and chairman of Hines, for his extraordinary contributions to the development of tall buildings and to the improvement of the urban environment.
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2nd Annual Awards, 2003
The Council’s move to the Illinois Institute of Technology’s College of Architecture in 2003 was celebrated by holding the Second Annual Awards Dinner in IIT’s S. R. Crown Hall. With a full house of more than 200 distinguished guests from around the world, the dinner honored Mr. Charles A. DeBenedittis, director of Tishman Speyer Properties, as the second recipient of the Lynn S. Beedle Achievement Award.
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1st Annual Awards, 2002
A dinner to honor CTBUH’s first and only director, Dr. Lynn S. Beedle, became the Council’s First Annual Awards Dinner. Thought of by then chairman Ron Klemencic, the dinner was held on September 26, 2002 at New York’s Marriott Marquis hotel. Attended by many friends, colleagues, and the whole Beedle family, the program began with remarks by former chairman R. Shankar Nair; Charles A. DeBenedittis; George Tamaro who, along with his son, was a former student of Dr. Beedle’s.
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