CTBUH - Events


		The Unseen City: Design for A Future Chicago Chicago Architecture Foundation, until May, 2013 Four Chicago academic institutions present visions for the future of city life in the Chicago Architecture Foundation’s upcoming exhibition Unseen City: Designs for a Future Chicago.

		SOMA in the 21st Century: Densifying the Neighborhood Gensler, San Francisco, May 14 Please join CTBUH for this San Francisco inaugural event featuring a panel of guests speaking on SOMA in the 21st Century.

		CTBUH YPC Hosts Shanghai Tower Presentation Chicago Architecture Foundation, May 22 CTBUH Young Professionals Committee presents multidisciplinary presentation of the design and construction process of the Shanghai Tower.

		Re-skin or Rebuild: Options for the Aging Curtain Wall The Mohawk Group, 71 West 23rd Street, New York, May 23 Join Urban Green Council in welcoming leaders who work in the high performance building industry as they talk about building resiliency in first generation curtain wall buildings from two standpoints: Re-skin or Rebuild.

		Sixth Skyscraper Festival Frankfurt 2013 Frankfurt, May 25-26, 2013 Frankfurt will be welcoming back an event of the very special variety, one that pays tribute to the city's reputation as a skyscraping metropolis. Frankfurt's high-rises will be opening their doors for the Sixth Skyscraper Festival.

		ENR Global Construction Summit 2013 The McGraw-Hill Companies Corporate Headquarters, New York, June 6-7 The ENR Global Construction Summit will present the Global Best Projects Awards, a new annual awards program dedicated to honoring the best global construction projects and the companies that designed and built them.

		SEAOI Excellence in Structural Engineering Awards 2013 Harold Washington Library, Chicago, June 8 A dinner meeting featuring presentations by the 34th SEAOI Excellence in Structural Engineering Awards project finalists. Announcement of the Awards winners will be made.

		CTBUH London 2013 International Conference The Brewery, London, June 11-13, 2013 In the midst of two decades of unprecedented tall building development globally, Europe has increasingly embraced the skyscraper, even in cities traditionally seen as “anti-tall.” The CTBUH brings its 2013 conference to London to address these issues, share information and create a dialogue for advancing future projects.

		CCHRB 2013 Seminar: The Chicago Energy Challenge Harris Bank Building, 115 South LaSalle Street, Chicago, June 13 The Chicago Committee on High Rise Buildings is organizing this series of presentations to help update industry professionals as to what exactly the Commercial Buildings Initiative entails.

		BOLLINGER + GROHMANN – Behind the Scenes Deutsches Architekturmuseum Frankfurt A.M., June 14 - September 1 Klaus Bollinger and Manfred Grohmann are two structural engineers who set up their own company in Frankfurt 30 years ago. The exhibition reveals the construction processes that ordinarily take place behind building site fences.

		Creative Construction Conference 2013 Hilton Budapest Hotel, Hungary, July 6-9, 2013 The Creative Construction Conference invites all creators to explore the known and unknown boundaries of construction together.

		The Woolworth Building @100 The Skyscraper Museum, New York, until July 14, 2013 Protected as a New York City landmark since 1983, The Skyscraper Museum celebrates in the Woolworth Building's centennial year with an exhibition that honors its ambitions and architectural artistry.

		Innovation Conference 2013 McGraw-Hill Companies Headquarters, New York, October 3 Innovation Conference highlights the profession's top innovators, most influential new projects, and groundbreaking achievements in super-tall, super-efficient and super-smart buildings.

		World Architecture Day 2013 Center for Architecture, New York, October 6-8 Following on from the success of WAN’s inaugural World Architecture Day event in London last year, the World Architecture Day 2013 will be looking at the past, present and future of international architecture.

		World Architecture Festival 2013 Marina Bay Sands, Singapore, October 2-4 This year's theme for the World Architecture Festival is value and values. This subject will inform a talks series that will take place throughout the Festival.

		CTBUH 12th Annual Awards Symposium, Ceremony & Dinner Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, November 7 The CTBUH 12th Annual Awards, Symposium, Ceremony & Dinner will recognized the four regional best tall building winners. The new "10 Year Award" winner will also be chosen and announced.

Recent Events


		IIT College of Architecture Open House 2013 Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, USA, May 10 The Illinois Institute of Technology College of Architecture Open House event is free and open to the public. The open house will showcase and celebrate the best and most innovative work of IIT Architecture students from the 2012-13 academic year.

		2013 Structures Congress Westin Convention Center, Pittsburgh, May 2-4 The Structural Engineering Institute (SEI) of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) launch its annual congress which includes 11 technical tracks that will demonstrate processes and present projects that redefines structural engineering.

		Canada and the Global Movements in Tall: Trends, Drivers, Challenges University of Toronto Faculty Club, May 2 First regional Meeting of the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, Toronto Chapter. CTBUH Executive Director Antony Wood will deliver a presentation.

		Tall Buildings Fire Safety Network Conference Counter Terrorism Expo, Olympia, London, April 24-25, 2013 Tall buildings dominate the skyline of all the major cities in the world and present their own unique security risks. The Tall Buildings Group to discuss fire safety and design security within tall buildings.

		The Woolworth Building: The Making of New York Landmark Center for Architecture, New York, April 22, 2013 Professor and author Gail Fenske will present a history of Cass Gilbert's 1913 Woolworth Building. Critics hailed his design as a spectacular feat of engineering and wondrous Gothic tower.

		2013 Fazlur R. Khan Distinguished Lecture Series Alfredo H-S. Ang, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, April 19, 2013 As part of the Khan Lecture Series, honoring Dr. Fazlur Rahman Khan’s legacy of excellence in structural engineering and architecture, Alfredo H-S. Ang will present the topic of “Minimizing the Effects of Uncertainties in Developing Reliability-Based Design Criteria.”

		2013 NASCC The Steel Conference America's Center Convention Complex, St. Louis, April 17-19 The Steel Conference offers more than 100 technical sessions for structural engineers and fabricators. CTBUH Trustee William Baker will deliver a keynote presentation.

		Are Tall Buildings Blighting our Skyline? RIBA, 66 Portland Place London, April 16, 2013 London is in the grip of a tall building frenzy. Driven by foreign money, ego and the pressure to build homes and offices, towers are being approved and constructed at a staggering rate. Are we boosting or blighting our capital?

		Competition: Arcology SkyScraper - Hong Kong Closing submission April 15, 2013 The program challenges participants to design a NEW Arcology Skyscraper in Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong, China. The design should create a new iconic Arcology skyscraper in the city.

		FACADES + INNOVATION 2013 McGraw Hill Conference Center, New York, April 11-12 The FACADES + INNOVATION Symposium and Workshop 2013 will analyze, discuss, and dispute the development, implementation, and maintenance of high-performance building enclosures.

		Christoph Ingenhoven Lecture: WHY I LOVE SKYSCRAPERS National Museum of the American Indian, New York, April 10, 2013 Christoph Ingenhoven is the founding principal of ingenhoven architects, in 2012, his sleek, sustainable, and elegant design for 1 Bligh Street in Sydney won the CTBUH Best Tall Building in Asia & Australasia Award.

		14th Annual Structural Engineering Conference I Hotel & Conference Center, Champaign, IL, April 4, 2013 The primary objective of the conference is to educate professionals with regard to new developments in the field of structural engineering, gain timely job-related information, and network with colleagues.

		Designing Tomorrow: America's World's Fairs of the 1930s Museum of the City of New York, until March 31, 2013 Designing Tomorrow: America's World's Fairs of the 1930s showcases six depression-era expositions that brought visions of a brighter future to tens of millions of Americans.

		From Ville Radieuse to London Wall: Visions of Cities in the Sky RIBA, 66 Portland Place London, March 26, 2013 Le Corbusier’s la Ville Radieuse was a grandiose plan for the future city. It brought high-rise buildings, open spaces and motorways into one harmonious blueprint. It was never realised, but left a legacy in cities all over the world.

		2013 Fazlur R. Khan Distinguished Lecture Series John M. Kulicki, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, March 22, 2013 As part of the Khan Lecture Series, honoring Dr. Fazlur Rahman Khan’s legacy of excellence in structural engineering and architecture, John M. Kulicki will present the topic of “Observations on AASHTO Bridge Design.”

		Mies' Birthday Party: Making Metropolis S. R. Crown Hall, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, March 13, 2013 Celebrate Mies' 127th birthday and his influence on Chicago. The IIT Dean of Architecture, Wiel Arets, will present his direction for the College at the Mies' 127th Birthday Party. CTBUH.

		Porous City - Open the Tower Palais des festivals, Cannes, France, March 12-15, 2013 An exhibition as part of the 2013 MIPIM Innovation Forum featuring Lego-made skyscrapers to explore futuristic concepts of urban design imagined by the Winy Maas (MVRDV & The Why Factory director).

		Wiel Arets: A Wonderful World Unity Temple, Oak Park, March 11, 2013 Wiel Arets, new Dean of Architecture at IIT, presents his vision for "A Wonderful World." Arets will discuss his new book, Autobiographical References, and how we need to change the way that we look at our world.

		Ma Yansong: Between Modernity (Global) and Tradition (Local) Museo ICO, Madrid, until March 3, 2013 Ma Yansong of MAD Architects will exhibit a diverse collection of his work. The pieces on show will showcase projects such as the City & Art Museum in Ordos, and the Absolute World Towers in Mississauga, Canada

		Historic Districts Council’s 19th Annual Preservation Conference New York Law School, Manhattan - March 1-3, 2013 Preservation Now! Today’s Victories, Losses and Ongoing Battles! The 2013 Conference takes its inspiration from recent trends in preservation and the relationship between development and preservation in New York City.

		2013 Mock Firms International Skyscraper Challenge Closing date for Registration, March 1, 2013 The 2013 installment of the Mock Firms Competitions hopes to establish a platform for aspiring young professionals to “re-discover” the ideas, designs and technologies which helped to introduce past communities to their “future” work, leisure and domestic environments. REGISTRATION NOW OPEN!

		Building: Inside Studio Gang Architects Art Institute Chicago, until February 24, 2013 A custom-made installation designed by SGA in collaboration with curators from the museum’s Department of Architecture and Design allows visitors to see material samples, full-scale project mock-ups, research materials, digital media, and films.

		London Charity Premiere: 16 Acre RIBA, 66 Portland Place London, February 19, 2013 London premiere of an acclaimed documentary telling the dramatic inside story of the collision of interests in rebuilding at Ground Zero in the decade after 9/11. The film follows the creative, commercial and political conflicts surrounding the project.

		2013 Fazlur R. Khan Distinguished Lecture Series R. Shankar Nair, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, February 15, 2013 As part of the Khan Lecture Series, honoring Dr. Fazlur Rahman Khan’s legacy of excellence in structural engineering and architecture, R. Shankar Nair will present the topic of "The Evolution of the Skyscraper."

		CTBUH Young Profesionals Commitee - Student Workshop S. R. Crown Hall, IIT, Chicago, February 4, 2013 Students from the Chicago area will have an opportunity to interact with representatives of top architecture, engineering, and construction firms in an informal workshop hosted by the CTBUH Young Professionals Committee.

		URBAN FABRIC: Building New York's Garment District The Skyscraper Museum, until January 20, 2013 New York's Garment District, the largest concentration of skyscraper factories in the world, once supported more than 100,000 manufacturing jobs and produced nearly 3/4 of all women's and children's apparel in the United States.

		2013 Evolo Skyscraper Competition Closing date for submission, January 22, 2013 eVolo Magazine is pleased to invite students, architects, engineers, and designers from around the globe to take part in the 2013 Skyscraper Competition. There are no restrictions in regards to site, program or size.

		Best High-rises 2012/13 – The International High-rise Award 2012 Deutsches Architekturmuseum Frankfurt, until January 13, 2013 In November 15, 2012 the International High-rise Award will be bestowed by the City of Frankfurt\Main in cooperation with DAM and DekaBank for the fifth time in the Paulskirche in Frankfurt.

		DRUOT, LACATON & VASSAL – Transformation of a 1960s Residential High-rise Deutsches Architekturmuseum Frankfurt, until January 13, 2013 The exhibition in the context of the ECB’s EUROPE AN CULTURAL DAYS documents the conversion of a typical first-generation residential highrise in the ‘banlieues’ of Paris as a field of experimentation for new forms of living.

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