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Session Chairs:
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Mayor Richard M. Daley
Mayor’s Office, City of Chicago, Chicago
“Chicago; 125 years of Tall – reflections”
In the city where tall buildings began, this presentation highlights the historical trends, drivers and challenges behind tall buildings and sustainable urban development...more
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His Excellency Mohamed Ali Alabbar
Chairman, Emaar Properties PJSC, Dubai
“The World’s Tallest as Economic Stimulus”
As the Burj Dubai nears completion in 2009, the Burj has been well documented in both design and technical terms. Envisaged as the ‘jewel in the crown’ of a much larger urban development...more
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Stuart Allen & Frank Zabel (CICO Consultants) – Tornado Tower, Doha
Steven Holl (Steven Holl Architects) – Linked Hybrid Building, Beijing
Bruce Kuwabara (KPMB Architects) – Manitoba Place, Winnipeg
Timothy Poell (SOM) – Broadgate Tower, London
“CTBUH 2009 Best Tall Building Award Winners”
Each year the CTBUH recognizes excellence in tall building design...more |
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Charles DeBenedittis, Gilberto do Valle, Ron Klemencic, Shankar Nair, Les Robertson & David Scott
“40 Years of the CTBUH: Reflections”
As the Council on Tall Buildings celebrates its 40th Anniversary, we hear some lighter reflections on the Council’s history from colleagues who have been involved in the steering of the organization over the years...more
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Sandy Diehl, Richard Hanson, Vickie Tillman & Ray Torto
“The Future of Urban Tall in a world of uncertain economics”
The current financial crisis started in the US sub-prime housing market, and quickly exposed the economic Emporer’s clothes across virtually the entire globe. This special panel session, involving four of the pre-eminent thinkers in the field, will debate the future of cities and tall buildings...more
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Shri Ratnaker Gaikwad
Metropolitan Commissioner, Mumbai Metropolitan Redevelopment Agency
“The Remaking of Mumbai in the Sustainable Age”
India is widely recognized as one of the largest two emerging / developing markets in the world. As a precursor to our February 2010 CTBUH Mumbai Conference, we hear from the Metropolitan Commissioner of the MMRDA on plans for Mumbai, including the announcement of a 101-storey tower...more
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Arthur Gensler
Chairman, Gensler, San Francisco
“Shanghai Tower: Completing a Super-Tall Trio”
Located in the Lujiazui Finance and Trade Zone in the heart of Shanghai, Shanghai Tower rises to complete a trio of towers including the adjacent Jin Mao Tower and Shanghai World Financial Center...more
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Russell Gilchrist
Practice Leader, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP, Chicago
“Towards Zero Energy in China - Pearl River Tower”
The Pearl River Tower was conceived as a ‘net zero energy’ operating skyscraper. In this presentation we hear about some of the opportunities and challenges of building both tall and sustainably in China...more
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Russ Huffer
Chairman and CEO of Viracon's parent company, Apogee Enterprises
“Envelope as Environmental Filter”
Many believe that the envelope of a tall building has a significant role to play in responding to climate change. In this presentation we hear from the CEO of Viracon on what strategies they are developing...more
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Tony Kettle
International Group Design Director, RMJM, UK
“Gazprom Tower: The politics of High Rise”
The subject of debate when proposed in the historic city of St. Petersburg, this HQ for the Russian energy giant Gazprom seems to be successfully chartering a difficult political and economic path towards fruition...more
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Eric Kuhne
Founding Principal, Eric Kuhne Associates, London
“Starcatchers versus Skyscrapers: Building skylines of the future”
Tall Buildings seem to have taken on an additional agenda in recent years. Whereas throughout history they have been used to project the vitality of corporations, skylines are now used to project the vitality of cities...more
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Clark Manus
FAIA, CEO, Heller Manus Architects, San Francisco
AIA Vice-President / 2011 President
“East Coast / West Coast Tall – commonalities and differences”
There is a healthy rivalry between the different regions of the US. In this presentation we hear the commonalities and differences in construction and urban planning across different US cities...more |
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Garrett Miller
President, Hill International Real Estate Partners LP, Philadelphia
“American Commerce Center and other projects”
US cities such as Chicago, New York and San Francisco have attracted much of the US attention for skyscrapers in the boom. As proposals in many of these cities become stalled, however, Hill International announced...more
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Mark Mitcheson-Low
Managing Director, Woods Bagot Middle East, Dubai
“Kilometer-High Tower: Fact or Fiction?”
The Nakheel Harbor and Tower project was officially launched in October 2008 – as the world’s economy went into meltdown. Several years of significant work by both the developer and the consultant team...more
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John Portman
Founding Principal, John Portman & Associates, Atlanta
“A lifetime of tall, from an architect-developer’s perspective”
John Portman is the recipient of the CTBUH 2009 Lynn S. Beedle lifetime achievement award. We hear the unique perspective of both an architect and a developer on building tall over the last 40 years...more |
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Dan Probst
Chairman Energy and Sustainability, Jones Lang La Salle, Chicago
“What Every Tenant Wants”
In parts of the world, higher levels of sustainable building performance is being driven by legislation. In other parts, including the US, it is primarily being driven by tenant and market demand. One of the world’s largest real estate services firms on what agendas are being driven by tenants...more
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Adrian Smith
Partner, Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture, Chicago
“Re-energizing existing high rise; Sears, Jin Mao and others”
Much of the consideration of sustainable design is being focused on new and future buildings. Arguably, the greatest difference to cutting energy and carbon expenditure would be had in the upgrade of existing buildings...more |
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William Testa
Vice President, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
“Density, Height and Global Cities”
This presentation from the Vice President of one of the major funding sources in the city, will help to put the economic issues of desnity, height and cities in context...more
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Richard Tomasetti
Founding Principal, Thornton Tomasetti, Inc., New York
“Chicago Spire: Technical Twisting and Turning”
For the best part of a decade, Asia eclipsed the U.S. as the leader in the world’s tallest buildings. In the mid-2000s, a number of U.S. cities once again proposed supertall buildings in a bid to rebrand U.S. skylines...more |
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Eric Trump Executive Vice President, Development & Acquisitions, The Trump Organization, NY
Andrew Weiss Executive Vice President, The Trump Organization, NY
“Skyscrapers as Business Strategy: An international portfolio”
The Trump International Hotel and Tower Chicago completed this year is the tallest building in the US built in 35 years, since Sears Tower...more
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Guy Turner
Director, Intelligent Engineering/SPS Floors, London
“Evolving Structural Solutions : A third way”
This presentation will review the opportunities and challenges SPS (and other similar innovations) present to skyscraper construction as well as describing case studies of various projects...more
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Steve Watts
Partner / Tall Buildings Leader, Davis Langdon, London
“The Economics of Sustainability & Mixed-Use”
Davis Langdon’s cost model for tall buildings is a seminal reference tool in the industry. Steve updates us on both these initiatives, in the context of projects such as the mixed-use London Bridge Tower...more
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Carol Willis
Director, Skyscraper Museum, New York
“Skyscraper Cities: The Logic of Vertical Density”
The world’s future is clearly cities. Urbanization and modernization seem inevitably to result in high-rises. This presentation explores how vertical density is an expression of a city’s affluence and the implication...more
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Mun Summ Wong
Founding Partner, WOHA, Singapore
“Newton Suites and other endeavors: High Rise and the Organic Realm”
The Newton Suites project demonstrates how a small number of buildings are pushing the boundaries of organic possibility far beyond the norm...more |
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