CTBUH Featured Video Archive 2008

Click a link below to view a previously featured CTBUH video. The date denotes when the video was featured via the CTBUH homepage or Newsletter.
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ACTBUH Video      Urban Futures: Green or Grey? The Aesthetics of Tall Building Sustainability
Presentation to ACTBUH, Brisbane, November 11, 2008
A. Wood, posted December 2008


This presentation outlines the viability of the tall building as a sustainable element in our future urban centres and examines several tall building case studies that have embraced environmental approaches to a lesser or greater degree.

  The Tall Building, Reconsidered...
CTBUH 8th World Congress, Dubai, March 4, 2008
S. Allford & P. Monaghan, posted December 2008


This presentation examines the revival of tall buildings in the UK since the late 1990s, through the work of one architectural firm who are active participants in it, AHMM.

Andrew Whittaker   The Seismic Design of High-Rise Buildings
ACTBUH Breakfast Seminar, Brisbane, August 1, 2008
A. Whittaker, posted November 2008


As part of the CTBUH Seismic Design Working Group World Tour, Andrew Whittaker, co-author of the ‘CTBUH Recommendations for the Seismic Design of High-Rise Buildings’ presents the working group’s findings to the Brisbane building community.

Jeanne Gang   Wanted: Tall Buildings Less Iconic, More Specific
CTBUH 8th World Congress, Dubai, March 4, 2008
J. Gang, posted November 2008


This presentation attempts to point out a few strategies for breaking out of purely image-driven high-rise design and the importance of doing so.



Mohamed Ali Alabbar   A Vision for the World’s Tallest
CTBUH 8th World Congress, Dubai, March 3, 2008
HE M. A. Alabbar, posted October 2008


HE Mohamad Ali Alabbar discusses the many planning phases which took place in order to see the Burj Dubai realized.



Sadhu Johnston   Chicago: Building a Green City
CTBUH 8th World Congress, Dubai, March 3, 2008
S. Johnson, posted October 2008


This presentation examines how Chicago is leading by example and encouraging businesses, organizations and residents in the city to embrace green building in many forms including new construction, renovations, site planning and more.


Lee Morris   Towards a 21st Century Post Carbon Urbanised Society
CTBUH 8th World Congress, Dubai, March 3, 2008
L.Morris, WS Atkins, posted September 2008


This presentation looked at the current situation of mankind as the planet faces climate change, emissions targets and the search for new energy alternatives. Also it  attempts to hypothesize about what the future may look like.

Daniel Libeskind   Breaking Ground, Daniel Libeskind
CTBUH Conference, Chicago, October 26, 2006
D. Libeskind, posted September 2008


This presentation covers many of the tall building projects being undertaken by Studio Daniel Libeskind, including the Orco Tower, Warsaw, Fiera Milano, Milan and the World Trade Center Masterplan, New York.