page_title: Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat
section_title: Awards
hierarchical_section_title: Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat / Awards
caption_attribution_description: Central Park Sydney. The mirrors reflect light into the mall below.
context_page_description: The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat is an international body in the field of tall buildings and sustainable urban design. A non-profit organization based at the Monroe Building in the city of Chicago, Illinois, United States, the CTBUH announces the title of "The World's Tallest Building" and is widely considered to be an authority on the official height of tall buildings. Its stated mission is to study and report "on all aspects of the planning, design, and construction of tall buildings." The Council was founded at Lehigh University in 1969 by Lynn S. Beedle, where its office remained until October 2003 when it moved to the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago.
context_section_description: The CTBUH grants several awards every year.
  Best Tall Building Overall Award
  2007: Beetham Tower, Manchester, UK
  2008: Shanghai World Financial Center, Shanghai, China
  2009: Linked Hybrid, Beijing, China
  2010: Broadcasting Place, Leeds, UK.
  2010: Global Icon award, Burj Khalifa is the first recipient of this award announced on 25 October 2010., Dubai, UAE.
  2011: KfW Westarkade, Frankfurt, Germany.
  2012: Doha Tower, Doha, Qatar.
  2013: CCTV Headquarters, Beijing, China.
  2014: One Central Park, Sydney, Australia.
  2015: Bosco Verticale, Milan, Italy.
  2016: Shanghai Tower, Shanghai, China
  2018: Oasia Hotel Downtown, Singapore
caption: The 2014 winner of the CTBUH Skyscraper Award, One Central Park in Sydney, Australia
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