Highrise Award Winner to Be Announced
Highrise Award Winner
Hearst Tower, New York City, by Foster and Partners/London.
Photo © Nigel Young, Foster + Partners
Highrise Award Winner
Peking, by Office for Metropolitan Architecture Rotterdam/Beijing.
Photo © Iwan Baan and Office for Metropolitan Architecture
Highrise Award Winner
New York Times Building, New York City, by Renzo Piano Building Workshop Architects/Paris, with FXFowle/New York.
Photo © Michael Denance
Highrise Award Winner
Newton Suites, Singapore, by WOHA.
Photo © Albert Lim
Highrise Award Winner
Missing Matrix Building (Boutique Monaco), Seoul, by Mass Studies.
Photo © Yong-Kwan Kim
Architects & Firms
The prize of 50,000 euros and a sculpture by artist Thomas Demand are awarded every two years to a project completed within that period. For 2008, 26 projects were nominated from 11 different countries. A jury of architects, engineers and critics, including Alejandro Zaera Polo (jury chair) of Foreign Office Architects, and RECORD’s Suzanne Stephens, selected the finalists and the winner.
The five finalists are:
- Hearst Tower, New York City, Foster and Partners
- TVCC, Beijing, Office for Metropolitan Architecture
- New York Times Building, New York City, Renzo Piano Building Workshop with FXFOWLE
- Newton Suites, Singapore, WOHA
- Missing Matrix Building, Seoul, Korea, Mass Studies
Which high-rise do you think should win this year? Enter your vote in the comment box below.
