The “Best Tall Building” winners are:
- Europe: 51 Lime Street, London
- Americas: The New York Times Building, New York
- Asia/Australasia: Shanghai World Financial Centre, Shanghai
- Middle East/Africa: Bahrain World Trade Center, Manama
“Beyond their functional purposes, the ‘green’ aspects of these tall buildings indicate a new emerging aesthetic for the skyscraper, an aesthetic based on sustainability”, praised Antony Wood, CTBUH Executive Director.
The Shanghai World Financial Centre was chosen as the overall winner – the “Best Tall Building Overall” - for its revolutionary structural design. At 101 stories, the centre is the world’s tallest building in “height to top of roof” and “highest occupied floor”; its visitors’ square and observation deck is the highest publicly accessible built space in the world.
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