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De jury geeft toe dat het een moeilijke prijsvraag is, en wel om het volgende: “Hoe vergelijk je een gebouw als Bosco Verticale, dat verpakt is in bomen en iets over 100 meter hoog is, met One World Trade Center – strak, elegant en vijf keer hoger dan het andere gebouw?” <anchor>aldus</anchor> jurylid en co-oprichter van de prijs Mun Summ Wong.
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# CTBUH Names Bosco Verticale “Best Tall Building Worldwide” for 2015

November 13, 2015

CHICAGO – The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) Awards Jury selected [Bosco Verticale](http://skyscrapercenter.com/complex/399), Milan, as the overall “2015 Best Tall Building Worldwide” at the 14th Annual CTBUH International Best Tall Building Awards Symposium, Ceremony & Dinner, celebrated November 12 at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago.

![BoscoVerticale_PaoloRosselli](/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/BoscoVerticale_PaoloRosselli.jpg)

![Mun Summ Wong, WOHA Architects, was the Awards Jury Chair](/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/MunSumm-300x208.jpg)

Mun Summ Wong, WOHA Architects, was the Awards Jury Chair

The final decision was the culmination of a nearly year-long juried selection process considering 123 entries representing a total of 33 countries. In July, the CTBUH Awards Jury named a winner from each of the four competing regions in the world: Americas, Asia & Australasia, Europe, and Middle East & Africa. The Regional Winners were [One World Trade Center](http://skyscrapercenter.com/building/one-world-trade-center/98), New York City, United States; [CapitaGreen](http://skyscrapercenter.com/building/capitagreen/13978), Singapore; Bosco Verticale, Milan, Italy; [Burj Mohammed Bin Rashid Tower](http://skyscrapercenter.com/building/burj-mohammed-bin-rashid/259), Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Senior representatives of each of the winners gave presentations at the Awards Symposium at Hermann Hall, with the jury convening immediately afterwards to determine an overall winner. IIT Dean Wiel Arets then had the honor of awarding the title of overall “Best Tall Building Worldwide” to Bosco Verticale at an elegant Ceremony & Dinner held in Mies van der Rohe’s iconic masterpiece S.R. Crown Hall.

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Alida Forte Catella, COIMA (center) and Stefano Boeri, Boeri Studio (right) accept the overall Best Tall Building Worldwide award from Wiel Arets, IIT (left)

Although the CTBUH International Best Tall Building Awards program is ostensibly centered on a single building type, the diversity in this year’s winning submissions was remarkable. Awards Jury Chair, Mun Summ Wong, Co-Founder, WOHA Architects, shed light on the challenge of selecting this year’s winner, “How do you start to compare a building like Bosco Verticale, which has trees all over it and is just over 100 meters tall, with One World Trade Center – sleek, elegant, poised, and more than five times taller than the former? One is where people live, and the other where they work.”

The jury applauded Bosco Verticale, which translates to “Vertical Forest,” for its extraordinary implementation of vegetation at such scale and height. The building supplants traditional cladding materials with screens of greenery such that the plants act as an extension of the tower’s exterior envelope, creating a distinct microclimate. The building’s intensive “living façade,” incorporating numerous trees and 90+ species of vegetation, is an active interface to the surrounding environment. Along with creating a beautiful appearance, the living green façade concurrently stimulates interaction with the surrounding environment while also protecting against it, in fact enhancing the sustainability of the project. The jury called this exploration of the viability of greenery at such heights groundbreaking.

Bosco Verticale was also the focus of the [2013 International CTBUH Seed Funding Initiative](http://www.ctbuh.org/TallBuildings/ResearchDivision/ResearchSeedFunding/ResearchSeedFunding2013/tabid/4150/language/en-GB/Default.aspx), sponsored by [Arup](http://global.ctbuh.org/companies/567), in which Dr. [Elena Giacomello](http://global.ctbuh.org/people-profile/elena-giacomello) monitored the vegetation of the towers and built a database in support of a new framework for the green design of tall buildings. The findings were published by CTBUH in _[Vertical Greenery: Evaluating the High-Rise Vegetation of the Bosco Verticale, Milan](https://store.ctbuh.org/p-148-vertical-greenery-2015.aspx)._

![Dinner2015](/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Dinner2015.jpg)

More than 300 guests attended the 14th Annual CTBUH Dinner and Ceremony in Mies van der Rohe’s Crown Hall

Stefano Boeri, Founding Partner of Boeri Studio Architteti, graciously accepted the award at last night’s ceremony. He offered the audience an inspirational message, saying, “Yesterday I was giving a lecture here \[at IIT\], and it was very strange because the subject of the lecture was failures. I was trying to think about why architects are not used to talking about their failures – we prefer to hide, to remove our flubs, our fiascos, and our failures. Honestly, the reason we were able to do the Bosco Verticale was because we were able to learn from failures . . . and what I hope is that other attempts will learn from the mistakes we made with the Bosco Verticale.”

![Santiago Calatrava, Santiago Calatrava Architects & Engineers, presents on the 10 Year Award Winner, Turning Torso](/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Calatrava.jpg)

Santiago Calatrava, Santiago Calatrava Architects & Engineers, presents on the 10 Year Award Winner, Turning Torso

Beyond the grand announcement of the Best Tall Building Worldwide, The CTBUH Awards Jury also recognized numerous other impactful projects throughout the evening. Singapore hotel [PARKROYAL on Pickering](http://skyscrapercenter.com/building/parkroyal-on-pickering/14115), for the Urban Habitat Award, which WOHA Architects Co-Founder Richard Hassell accepted. To note, as Mun Summ Wong’s had team worked on the project, he recused himself from the Jury when they deliberated this award. Santiago Calatrava, accepted the 10 Year Award on behalf Santiago Calatrava Architects & Engineers for the [Turning Torso](http://skyscrapercenter.com/building/turning-torso/1979) in Malmö, Sweden. Sydney’s [Chifley Tower](http://skyscrapercenter.com/building/chifley-tower/938) won the Performance Award for its exceptional energy efficiency upgrades undertaken in 2008, 16 years after the building’s 1992 completion. Maria Ramirez and Alberto Alarcon accepted the Innovation Award for their company’s coffee concrete slab solution, [HOLEDECK®](/winners/2015-tall-building-innovation-award-winner/).

The CTBUH Board of Trustees also awarded two special Lifetime Achievement Awards that evening. Mrs. Mori accepted the Lynn S. Beedle Lifetime Achievement Award on behalf of the late [Minoru Mori](/winners/2015-lynn-s-beedle-award-winner/) for his transformative impact on the Tokyo skyline, and recited a beautiful acrostic poem. [Nicholas E. Billotti](/winners/2015-fazlur-r-khan-achievement-medal-winner/), Turner Construction accepted the Fazlur R. Khan Award on behalf of the work he’s done over his 39-year career at Turner Construction. The Board of Trustees also named three new [CTBUH Fellows](/media/board-of-trustees-name-three-fellows-for-2015/), celebrated for their contribution to the Council over a period of time, and in acknowledgment of their work and knowledge in the design and construction of tall buildings and the urban habitat: William Maibusch, Project Executive, Andersen Construction, Simon Lay, Global lead, Fire & Life Safety Consulting, AECOM and Robert Pratt, Managing Director, Co-Head of Global Design & Construction, Tishman Speyer.

The CTBUH Awards are an independent review of new projects, judged by a prestigious panel of experts. The Awards aspire to provide a more comprehensive and sophisticated view of these important structures, while advocating for improvements in every aspect of performance, including those that have the greatest positive effect on the people who use these buildings and the cities they inhabit.

See more complete details on **all 2015 CTBUH International Awards Winners and Finalists**.

[![](http://global.ctbuh.org/img/awards/2015/BTB_TBA.jpg)\
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**Best Tall Building Regional Winners**](/media/ctbuh-names-best-tall-buildings-for-2015/ "CTBUH Names Best Tall Buildings for 2015")

[![PARKROYALonPickering_thumb](/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/PARKROYALonPickering_thumb.jpg)\
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**Urban Habitat Award**](/media/ctbuh-announces-2015-urban-habitat-award-winner/ "CTBUH Announces 2015 Urban Habitat Award Winner")

[![TurningTorso](/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/TurningTorso.jpg)\
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**10 Year Award**](/media/ctbuh-announces-10-year-award-winner-for-2015/ "CTBUH Announces 10 Year Award Winner for 2015")

[![Perf-Inov_thumb](/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Perf-Inov_thumb.jpg)\
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**Performance and Innovation Awards**](/media/ctbuh-announces-2015-performance-and-innovation-award-winners/ "CTBUH Announces 2015 Performance and Innovation Award Winners")

[![Lifetime2015_thumb](/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Lifetime2015_thumb.jpg)\
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**Lifetime Awards**](/media/board-of-trustees-bestow-lifetime-awards-for-2015/ "CTBUH Names Best Tall Buildings for 2015")

[![Fellows_thumb](/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Fellows_thumb.jpg)\
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**CTBUH Fellows**](/media/board-of-trustees-name-three-fellows-for-2015/ "Board of Trustees Name Three Fellows for 2015")

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