One Madison Avenue, 64 University Place, Citymark Tower, Ping An Financial Center (Jinan), and Huamu Lot 10 – The Summit are all recognized in the 2025 program.
Whether through scale, materiality, or an innovative approach to adaptive reuse, each building represents KPF’s commitment to context, craft, and performance.
Two very different buildings are recognized in the Best Tall Building Americas category: One Madison Avenue and 64 University Place. At One Madison Avenue in New York, an updated mid-century building serves as the podium to an elegant new tower providing Class-A offices to the mixed-use Flatiron District. As part of the transformation, the new building incorporates over an acre of outside space for tenants. Also in New York, 64 University Place is a residential development that responds to the architectural language of Greenwich Village and celebrates craft in construction.
Ping An Financial Center is a mixed-use development in the heart of Jinan’s new CBD and sits at the epicentre of a network of connected spaces, streets, and transport links. The podium level integrates a diversity of experience for users and comfortable, human-scaled environments to embed the tower into the urban fabric and create a new neighborhood. Citymark Tower is a 64-story mixed-use office and residential building in Shenzhen, designed with elegant angles and cutback corners to create a striking expression on the city’s skyline. Both projects are recognized in the Best Tall Building Above 300 meters category.
Huamu Lot 10 – The Summit is an Award of Excellence winner in both the Best Tall Building 100–199 meters and Best Tall Building Asia categories. Conceived of as an integration of culture and commerce, the development re-activates an abandoned riverfront and reimagines the formula for a tower by incorporating dramatic mid-level cantilevers, as opposed to focusing on an iconic top.
The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitats Annual Awards program honors projects and individuals that have had substantial impacts on the community through their design and innovation. Each Award of Excellence winner will be included in the CTBUH annual skyscraper publication titled Tall Buildings + Urban Habitat. Category winners will be announced during the CTBUH 2025 International Conference in Toronto this October.
See the full list of winners here.