Spectacular high-rise buildings are almost everywhere in the world. The finals of the International highrise award in 2018, it has managed, however, not a skyscraper from the US and Europe. A look at the five finalists.
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Maha Nakhon, Bangkok
The architecture büro Ole Scheeren has realized this spectacular design in the Thai capital, Bangkok. An eye-catcher from Far away and sophisticated architectural language which is, in its futuristic shape unique. Nominated for the International highrise award in 2018.
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Beirut Terraces, Beirut
In a war torn country like Lebanon, it is not easy to design a modern, futuristic building. The renowned Swiss architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron is known for swashbuckling, very idiosyncratic buildings, which remind of distance to works of art. This terrace house price in 2018, as a nominated design of the favorites on the International High.
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Torre Reforma, Mexico City
For eight years, from 2008 to 2016, was built on the Torre Reforma in Mexico city. With 57-storey high-rise is the highest in the whole country. The L. Benjamín Romano-designed building looks less spectacular, impressing the Jury but with a clever structural design concept in earthquake-prone Mexico.
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Chaoyang Park Plaza, Beijing
In the South of Beijing, the largest green area of the Chinese capital – the Park is Chaoyang. Is dominated by the Chaoyang Park Plaza, with its smooth and curvy surface. The Jury found the Chinese office MAD Architects-designed building “is just as unconventional as harmoniously”. The shape of the building is inspired by traditional Chinese landscape painting.
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Oasia Downtown, Singapore
The Oasia Downtown by WOHA is a green high-rise. The green giant has vertical gardens and is an eye-catcher in the concrete jungle of the Southeast Asian city-state. For the Jury of the International highrise award in 2018, a natural oasis, protected from the sun and the rain in the densely built-up Singapore.
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Price Suspicious: Spectacular High-Rise Buildings
Maha Nakhon, Bangkok
The architecture büro Ole Scheeren has realized this spectacular design in the Thai capital, Bangkok. An eye-catcher from Far away and sophisticated architectural language which is, in its futuristic shape unique. Nominated for the International highrise award in 2018.
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Price Suspicious: Spectacular High-Rise Buildings
Beirut Terraces, Beirut
In a war torn country like Lebanon, it is not easy to design a modern, futuristic building. The renowned Swiss architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron is known for swashbuckling, very idiosyncratic buildings, which remind of distance to works of art. This terrace house price in 2018, as a nominated design of the favorites on the International High.
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Price Suspicious: Spectacular High-Rise Buildings
Torre Reforma, Mexico City
For eight years, from 2008 to 2016, was built on the Torre Reforma in Mexico city. With 57-storey high-rise is the highest in the whole country. The L. Benjamín Romano-designed building looks less spectacular, impressing the Jury but with a clever structural design concept in earthquake-prone Mexico.
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Price Suspicious: Spectacular High-Rise Buildings
Chaoyang Park Plaza, Beijing
In the South of Beijing, the largest green area of the Chinese capital – the Park is Chaoyang. Is dominated by the Chaoyang Park Plaza, with its smooth and curvy surface. The Jury found the Chinese office MAD Architects-designed building “is just as unconventional as harmoniously”. The shape of the building is inspired by traditional Chinese landscape painting.
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Price Suspicious: Spectacular High-Rise Buildings
Oasia Downtown, Singapore
The Oasia Downtown by WOHA is a green high-rise. The green giant has vertical gardens and is an eye-catcher in the concrete jungle of the Southeast Asian city-state. For the Jury of the International highrise award in 2018, a natural oasis, protected from the sun and the rain in the densely built-up Singapore.
The international Prestige that is associated with the high house price, is high. More than 1000 construction projects, high-profile architecture offices were this time. 36 projects were at the end, in the final selection, and five of them in the final. The German architecture Museum in Frankfurt (DAM) announced this Thursday. The DAM gives the International highrise award since 2004, every two years, together with the city of Frankfurt and DekaBank.
High-Profile Invitation To Tender
The initiator, together, get only the Best. A specialized Team of the DAM is scoured prior to the application phase, the international architecture scene to the outstanding construction projects that will invite you to the invitation to tender.
Large architectural firms, city planners and on-the-go and global design and build, often do not have the time to take care of deadlines and conditions of tender single architecture prices. At this time nominees the selection of all at offices, and architects is, what has the world rank and name.
Ecological Models Of The Future
What is a high-rise building, defined as any municipal building code and national building code to the world in a different way. According to the tender of the DAM submitted to high-rise buildings at least 100 meters high, their use may, however, be variable: whether as a residence, library, office complex, Hotel, or mixed construction – everything is allowed. You may be only two years old, in order to meet the latest Standards of modern architecture.
And the high quality criteria of the award, must be met: in terms of sustainability, artistic Form and the boldness of the design, as well as the energy technical and creative formation of high-rise buildings. As it was, especially in Asia found that nine of the high-rise buildings from the preliminary round in China. From Europe, five projects were among the first nominees. None of them made it to the finals. Just as buildings of the United States.
Award-winning architecture: the winner of the International highrise award 2016
The winners of the last few years have set the quality level high. In 2016, the architecture firm BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group, with its innovative New York, won the high-rise project VIA 57 West. In 2014 the prize went to Milan, where one of the most innovative “green” high-rises in the world, the “Bosco Verticale” areas, with around 900 trees, on bold curved Balcony.
For the people build
In the meantime, especially those of ecological and social aspects play a decisive role in the nomination: For the people is to be built, not for the competition. The high-rise buildings of the future should also be something like a social or a green biotope in the midst of the brutal inhospitality of the megacities: as in the final standing, green Oasia Hotel Downtown in Singapore. In our gallery, you can find all the high-rise buildings in the final for the International highrise award in 2018.
The winning project will be on 1. November in the Frankfurt St. Paul’s Church will be announced and awarded. The prize is endowed with 50,000 euros. In addition, undoped honorary recognitions for five more, exceptionally innovative will be awarded the high-rise buildings.