Gensler's Shanghai Tower has won the 2015 Emporis Skyscraper Award. Selected from over 300 buildings of over 100 meters in height completed in 2015, the Emporis jury was impressed by the Shanghai Tower's "elegant spiraling cylindrical shape," and the "extraordinary energy efficiency" provided, in part, by the building's double-skin facade.
Currently the world's second tallest building at 632 meters, the Shanghai Tower becomes the second Chinese building to win the Emporis award, after Zaha Hadid Architects' Wangjing SOHO took the prize last year. In addition to Gensler's first-place project, Emporis also recognized 9 runners-up including Rafael Viñoly Architects' 432 Park Avenue, Arquitectonica's Icon Bay in Miami, and the Evolution Tower in Moscow by Kettle Collective and RMJM Edinburgh. Read on to see all ten awarded projects.
1. Shanghai Tower (Shanghai, China, 632 meters) / Gensler Architects, 2Define Architecture
2. Evolution Tower (Moscow, Russia, 246 meters) / Kettle Collective, RMJM Edinburgh
3. Il Dritto (Milan, Italy 210 meters) / Arata Isozaki & Andrea Maffei Associati
4. Jiangxi Nanchang Greenland Central Plaza (Nanchang, China 303 meters) / Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP
5. Abode318 (Melbourne, Australia 187 meters) / Elenberg Fraser, Disegno Australia
6. Icon Bay (Miami, USA 139 meters) / Arquitectonica
7. D1 Tower (Dubai, United Arab Emirates 284 meters) / Holfords & Associates
8. 432 Park Avenue (New York City, USA 426 meters) / Rafael Viñoly Architects, Schuman, Lichtenstein, Claman & Efron
9. Citygate Tower (Vienna, Austria 110 meters) / Querkraft Architekten
10. ÏCE II (Toronto, Canada 234 meters) / architectsAlliance
