1 February 2018

Debating Tall: Tall Buildings as Severe-Weather Shelters?

In the CTBUH 2018 Journal Issue I, two experts debate on whether tall buildings would provide safe shelter during severe-weather.

13 October 2017

CTBUH-IIT Design Research Studio Midterm Fall Review

During a semester of intense work assisted by the CTBUH and supported by AECOM, IIT architecture students presented their design research studio projects in Crown Hall.

28 April 2017

AIA Orlando – CTBUH Panel Discussion

Several noteworthy CTBUH leaders and staff will present at the AIA 2017 Convention, using CTBUH research to guide a discussion on "Urban vs. Subruban: What's Truly Sustainable?"

28 April 2017

CTBUH Leads AIA Orlando Panel Discussion on Urban Sustainability

The CTBUH had a significant presence at this year's AIA Conference in Orlando, convening a panel discussion investigating the sustainability of urban and suburban living patterns.

30 August 2016

Research Kick-off Meeting: Rope-Less, Non-Vertical Elevators

The kick-off meeting for the CTBUH research project on rope-less, non-vertical elevators sponsored by thyssenkrupp AG was held on the campus of IIT.

9 August 2016

IIT Professor Wins Research Seed Funding

Brent Stephens, an associate professor of architectural engineering at the Illinois Institute of Technology, has been awarded the CTBUH’s 2016 Research Seed Funding.

3 October 2015

Crown Hall Roundtable – Research Chicago: Tall Buildings

IIT Architecture is hosting a series of four roundtables with CTBUH Executive Director Antony Wood joining other esteemed panelists for Roundtable #3.

18 September 2012

Sustainability Workshop, Shanghai

The CTBUH Tall Buildings and Sustainability Working Group convened the day before the start of the Shanghai Congress to review recent progress and focus on goals for the future.

26 February 2009

Tall Buildings and Sustainability Working Group - 3rd Meeting

The third meeting of the CTBUH Tall Buildings and Sustainability Working Group took place on February 26th 2009, at the Chicago office of Environmental Systems Design.

12 November 2008

Tall Buildings and Sustainability Working Group Update

Two meetings channeled the efforts of the Sustainability Working Group into an anticipated 80,000 word, 200-page, richly illustrated book.

2 October 2008

Tall Buildings and Sustainability Working Group Update

The Working Group have announced the chapter plan for a 200-page, richly illustrated book, entitled the ‘CTBUH Guide to Sustainabilty for Tall Buildings in Urban Environments’.

2 October 2008

Sustainability Working Group - 2nd Meeting

Discussions at this meeting centered on the creation of a significant new publication “The CTBUH Guide to Sustainability for Tall Buildings in Urban Environments.”

17 September 2014

Monthly Video: Five Minutes with Luke Leung

Wednesday 17th September 2014. Shanghai, China. Luke Leung of SOM is interviewed by Chris Bentley during the 2014 CTBUH Awards Symposium at the Illinois Institute...

17 September 2014

Interview: Luke Leung

Wednesday 17th September 2014. Shanghai, China. Luke Leung of SOM is interviewed by Chris Bentley during the 2014 CTBUH Awards Symposium at the Illinois Institute...

10 October 2011

Architecture Towards Net Zero and Beyond

This lecture focuses on building energy strategies as holistic systems. It explores natural and vernacular models to inform contemporary strategies.

03 March 2008

SkySourced Sustainability: How Supertall Buildings can Benefit from Height

Luke Leung & Peter Weismantle of SOM presented additional sources of sustainability to the existing source of energy-the earth and the near-grade environment at the...

17 October 2016

Transparency in Urban Environment

Luke Leung, Yue Zhu, Stephen Ray & Adri Jevtic, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP

A generation of tall buildings has been dominated by International Style with full height glazing that is often vision glass. Large glass was intended to...

16 September 2014

21st Century Metropolis and the System Thinker

Stephen D. Ray & Luke Leung, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

The world is accelerating into the 21st century and will continue to be stressed by population increase. The metropolis must be part of the solution...

14 September 2014

Towards Sustainable Vertical Urbanism

Daniel Safarik, CTBUH

The survival of humanity on this planet relies on a radical repositioning of our cities. In the face of unprecedented global population growth, urbanization, pollution...

01 June 2014

Case Study: Pearl River Tower, Guangzhou

Richard Tomlinson II, William Baker, Luke Leung, et al. Skidmore Owings & Merrill

SOM’s design for the 71-story Pearl River Tower in Guangzhou, China, was selected in a 2005 competition. The 309-meter-tall high-performance building was designed with energy...

01 December 2013

Low-energy Tall Buildings? Room for Improvement as Demonstrated by New York City Energy Benchmarking Data

Luke Leung & Stephen D. Ray, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

This paper proposes a framework for understanding the energy consumption differences between tall and low-rise buildings. Energy usage data from 706 office buildings in New...

21 September 2012

Considering Place in an Integrated Approach to Tall Building Design

Brian Lee, William Baker & Luke Leung, SOM

The rapid development of modern Chinese cities has provided designers and developers with unique opportunities to create architecture that either responds to its existing context...

03 March 2008

How Supertall Buildings Can Benefit From Height

Luke Leung & Peter Weismantle, SOM

Utilizing the earth and near-grade environment as a source of energy has historically been a common practice. Beyond solar and wind, designers do not usually...

01 November 2007

Burj Dubai Stack Effect - Passive Stack Effect Mitigation Measures in the Design of the World's Tallest Building

Peter A. Weismantle & Luke Leung, SOM

The purpose of this paper is to outline the challenges related to stack effect faced by the Burj Dubai design team and to describe the...