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SESSION ONE
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Welcome: Professor Sang Dae Kim, Chairman, CTBUH
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Chair: Antony Wood, Executive Director, CTBUH
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Lynn S. Beedle Lifetime Achievement Award
From New York to Shanghai: A Lifetime of Tall
William Pedersen, Partner, Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates |
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Mr. Pedersen’s approach to design has been one that weds formal and technical originality with a modesty informed by a deep respect for spatial and historical context. Mr. Pedersen discussed his career and the development of the tall building typology including highlights such as: International Commerce Centre (2010), Shanghai World Financial Center (2008), 333 Wacker (1983) and more.
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Best Tall Building Americas
The Bank of America Tower at One Bryant Park: High Performance Design, Health & Productivity
Lisa Shpritz, Senior Vice President, Bank of America
Richard Cook, Partner, Cook + Fox Architects
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Bank of America Tower has produced a high level of sustainability within the commercial market place, creating a strong identity for itself and acting as an exemplary execution of sustainable technology integration into a tall building design on the most broad level with a strong focus around the end user.
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Best Tall Building Asia & Australasia
Pinnacle @ Duxton: Superdensity – Reimagining the high-rise housing typology
Lawrence Pak, Deputy Director, Singapore Housing and Development Board
Peng Beng Khoo, Lead Designer, ARC Studio Architecture + Urbanism
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Pinnacle @ Duxton has integrated public outdoor green spaces at height with the creation of two usable linear skyparks as well as a large park space on the podium. It creates a high level of density on site without sacrificing access to green space, an impressive fact as the project is essentially a public housing scheme.
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Session One - Panel Questions & Answers
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| SESSION TWO |
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Best Tall Building Europe
Broadcasting Place: Diversification of Tall Buildings for New Social Context
George Downing, Chairman, Downing
Alex Whitbread, Partner & Lead Architect, Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios |
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Creating a unique form on the Leeds skyline, the cor-ten clad Broadcasting Place has an iconic presence, but was not designed as a piece of sculpture. The building’s form and elevations were planned around the optimization of daylighting and the façade was specifically designed to reduce cooling loads/energy use.
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Best Tall Building Middle East & Africa
Burj Khalifa: A New Typology for Tall Buildings
George J. Efstathiou, Consulting Partner, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP
William Baker, Structural Engineering Partner, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP
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The Burj Khalifa’s unprecedented height required substantial innovation in design techniques, building systems, and construction processes. The building reaches its incredible height in a graceful and beautiful form, Y-shaped in plan and carefully engineered around the wind.
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Fazlur Khan Lifetime Achievement Medal
The Skyscraper and the Structural Process: 40 years of engineering the Supertall
Professor Ysrael Seinuk, Ysrael A. Seinuk, PC
Presentation by Professor Seinuk's Daughter Beatriz Seinuk-Ackerman
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Prof. Seinuk is known as a worldwide authority on the design and construction of high-rise concrete and steel buildings. A reflection of his life's work will include significant towers such as: O-14 (2010), 785 Eighth Avenue (2009),Trump World Tower (2001), and more. Due to his recent passing, Ysrael Seinuk's daughter presented her father's work on his behalf.
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| Session Two - Panel Questions & Answers |
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| CLOSING |
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David Scott, Vice Chair, CTBUH
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