The Council of Vertical Urbanism has named six KPF projects as Award of Excellence winners, recognizing built work and future visions across Asia, the Americas, and Europe.
CPIC Xintiandi Commercial Center in Shanghai receives three honors, Best Tall Building Asia, Best Tall Building 200–299m, and the Façade Award, for a development that weaves high-rise towers with pedestrian-scaled retail streets, drawing on the memory and material expression of its historic neighbourhood. Guangzhou One Pengrui earns two awards, Best Tall Building Asia and Best Tall Building 100–199m, for a mixed-use riverside district defined by elliptical towers that step toward the Pearl River, embedding nature across the development.
One Bangkok Tower 4 is named in the Best Tall Building 200–299m category. One of four KPF-designed buildings within the landmark Bangkok mixed-use district, Tower 4’s structural façade references traditional Thai gabled rooflines while prioritising daylight and employee wellness.
1020 Spring Street in Atlanta wins an Award of Excellence in the Best Tall Building Americas category. Rising to the highest point in Midtown, the tower’s stepped balconies, green roof, and hospitality-forward amenities set a new benchmark for workplace design in the Americas.
Shenton House in Singapore and 70 Gracechurch Street in London are both awarded in the Future Project category. Shenton House proposes the transformation of a prime downtown site into a luxury hotel and Grade-A office tower, while 70 Gracechurch Street reuses an existing City of London block as a podium for a new tower, delivering a new public route, flexible market halls, and one of the City’s most energy-efficient office buildings.
The CVU Awards are the global benchmark for tall building excellence, recognizing projects and practices that contribute to the advancement of tall buildings and the urban environment, while achieving high standards of sustainability and human wellbeing.
