CTBUH Award of Excellence 2024
We're excited to announce that CIBC SQUARE, Battersea Power Station, 8 Bishopsgate and 21 Moorfields are CTBUH Award of Excellence Winners.
CIBC SQUARE: Best Tall Building Award, Americas Region
CIBC SQUARE is a major mixed-use development and transport hub at the heart of Toronto’s financial district.
The masterplan provides twin 250m-high towers positioned on opposite sides of the rail corridor and linked at a high level by a sky park. The overall development integrates with Toronto’s public transport system providing a new bus terminal for Metrolinx, as well as new connections to Union Station, the subway and light rail (LRT) systems.
The construction of 81 Bay Street began in June 2017 and was completed in 2021. The overall development, with CIBC as the anchor tenant, is due for completion by 2025.
Battersea Power Station: Urban Habitat Award
The regeneration of Battersea Power Station, a Grade II* listed landmark, has created a vibrant new mixed-use development with the magnificently restored Turbine Halls forming the main public areas.
The architectural interventions respect the integrity of the historic landmark while creating new events spaces, shops, restaurants and cafés, large open-plan office spaces and a series of sky villas positioned around rooftop garden squares above the Boiler House and Turbine Halls.
8 Bishopsgate: Best Tall Building Award, by Region (Europe) and Height (200-299 metres)
8 Bishopsgate contributes to the City of London’s cluster of tall buildings, providing a 50-storey, office-led, mixed-use asset for Mitsubishi Estate London. The scheme provides flexible retail space at the lower levels, extensive amenities for tenants throughout the building and a public viewing gallery, The Lookout, at level 50.
The building includes high sustainability/low energy initiatives in its construction and operation and has achieved a BREEAM ‘Outstanding’ rating. 8 Bishopsgate is understood to be the most sustainable speculative tall commercial scheme in the UK.
21 Moorfields: Structural Award
WilkinsonEyre designed 21 Moorfields as the new headquarters for Deutsche Bank in the City of London. Originally commissioned by Landsec in 2012 and following three successful planning applications and five years on-site, the development sits proudly above a new ticket hall for the Elizabeth Line.
Incorporating new pedestrianised streets, squares, walkways and an extended bridge to the Barbican; the development is suspended over a complex train interchange using a steel bridge structure. The building more than doubles the previous capacity of this key site, providing exemplary workspace for the additional 1.5 million people that, thanks to the new Elizabeth Line, are now within 50 minutes of central London.
