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The Council on Tall Buildings and
Urban Habitat (CTBUH) has announced
the recipients of its two Lifetime
Achievement Awards for 2020 as well as
the winners of the 10 Year Award
of Excellence.
The CTBUH Board of Trustees will
award the Lynn S. Beedle Lifetime
Achievement Award to Moshe Safdie,
founder of Safdie Architects, whose
“contributions to international architecture
and design make him a clear choice for
the honour,” said the council. The Fazlur R.
Khan Lifetime Achievement Award will
be awarded to Wuren Wang, vice
chairman and general manager of CITIC
Heye Investment.
Moshe Safdie is an architect, urban
planner, educator, theorist, and author.
Over a celebrated 50-year career, he has
“explored the essential principles of socially
responsible design with a distinct visual
language,” said CTBUH. “He has been
recognised as an individual who has made
an extraordinary contributions to the
advancement of tall buildings and the build
environment,” it added.
Wuren Wang is responsible for the
development, construction and operation ofChina Zun, the tallest building in Beijing.
“He has been recognised for his
demonstrated excellence in technical design
and/or research that has made a significant
contribution to the design of tall buildings.”
CTBUH will also recognise five projects
in the 10-Year Award of Excellence, which
will be featured in the 2020 Tall + Urban
Innovation Conference in Chicago in April,
where an overall winner will be chosen.
“This award gives an opportunity to reflect
back on buildings that have been completed
and operational for a decade, and
acknowledge those projects that have
performed successfully long after the
ribbon-cutting ceremonies have passed,”
said CTBUH. The winners include the Burj
Khalifa in Dubai, Guangzhou International
Finance Center, the International Commerce
Centre in Hong Kong, Marina Bay Sands in
Singapore, and the O-14 in Dubai.
The CTBUH also announced that Javier
Quintana de Una, principal at IDOM UK,
has become a fellow of the organisation,
which commented: “He has actively
contributed to the success of the CTBUH
United Kingdom Chapter, serving as
Chapter Board Member since 2015 and
Chapter Chair since 2017.Tall buildings designers
given lifetime awards
AWARDSThe chairman of Grimshaw, Andrew
Whalley, recently laid out an
ambitious approach to the firm’s
environmental strategy in his opening
keynote at the World Architecture
Festival in Amsterdam. His lecture,
titled ‘Zero,’ outlined Grimshaw’s
commitment to an ambitious start to
the new decade in which all of
Grimshaw’s international operations
and studios will try to operate on a
net zero carbon basis, as well as a goal
for all of its design work to be net
zero carbon ready within the decade.
In order to accomplish these goals,
Grimshaw have appointed a global
practice leader of sustainability –Dr.
Paul Toyne.
The appointment of Toyne will
“help build the capacity and skills
needed to fully understand the
challenges humanity faces in
mitigating and adapting to climate
change,” said the firm. He will oversee
Grimshaw’s transition to operational
carbon neutrality as well
as advise and lead on best practices
for each studio. Examples of
operational objectives include
offsetting business travel and energy
use associated with each studio, as
well as setting reduction targets for
the future.
Grimshaw’s new environmental
strategies will meet the target for
carbon neutral operations by the end
of 2020 – 10 years ahead of schedule,
according to the firm.Grimshaw sets
out ‘ambitious’
environmental
strategies
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