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Tall buildings: design, construction and operation | 2008 Issue I

CTBUH 8th World Congress

The Race for the Sky: Unbuilt

The “International” Skyscraper

High-Rise Home Technology

Tallest 10 Completed in 2007

CTBUH

Welcome

Welcome to the CTBUH Journal , the publication for the Council on Tall

Buildings and Urban Habitat.

Our first issue of 2008 celebrates the tremendous success of the CTBUH

8th World Congress in Dubai. Our authors this quarter present papers on

several of the most daring unbuilt tall building projects of the 20th century,

trends and shifts relating to building use from North America to Asia, and

the evolution of new technologies in high-rise residential buildings in the

United States. We hope you enjoy the issue. Zak Kostura, Editor

Published by

the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat

Editor

Zak Kostura

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e: zak.kostura@arup.com

Technical Editor

Robert Lau

Design & Layout

Katharina Holzapfel

e: kholzapfel@ctbuh.org

Design Consultant

Thomas Graham

News and Events

High-Rise Home Technology

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CTBUH World Congress 2008

CTBUH Structure

CTBUH Chairman

David Scott

CTBUH Executive Director

Antony Wood

Secretariat

Geri Kery

Council on Tall Buildings

and Urban Habitat

Illinois Institute of Technology

3360 South State Street

Chicago, IL 60616-3793

t: +1 312 909 0253

f: +1 610 419 0014

e: gkery@ctbuh.org

www.ctbuh.org

The Race for the Sky: Unbuilt

CTBUH Members Listing

Tallest 10 Completed in 2007

36 Call for CTBUH Awards 2008

CTBUH Journal has endeavored to determine the

been sourced from listed authors or from within CTBUH.

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Front cover: Welcome Cocktail Reception, Jumierah Beach

Hotel, CTBUH 8th World Congress - Dubai, March 2008 ,

showing Burj Al Arab in the background.

Photo: MCI Dubai

The “International” Skyscraper

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CTBUH news and events

Council

It has been another momentous quarter for

the Council. The 8th World Congress in Dubai

in March, with 954 delegates from 43 countries

in attendance, was one of the most significant

gatherings in the 39-year history of the Council

(for more on this, see the Congress report on

pages 5-9). In addition the CTBUH Tall Building

Seismic Design working group has issued the

first draft of its report (see www.ctbuh.org ),

we are in the process of re-establishing a

significant tall building database on the

Council website, and the Tallest 10 Buildings

constructed during 2007 continue the

established trend for realizing super-tall

buildings in both the Middle East and Asia

(see page 33 and back cover).

CTBUH - New Staff Positions

In line with recent successes and growth, the Council is pleased to announce the creation of 3

new full-time staff positions: a Research Manager, a Communications Manager and a Production

Assistant. The deadline for receipt of applications is 30th June 2008. Interviews will take place in

late July and it is hoped that the new staff will take up their positions at CTBUH HQ in Chicago in

September.

Research Manager

The new Research Manager will initiate and

spearhead a new Research Division for the Council,

whose aim will be to generate and coordinate

much-needed research into multi-disciplinary and

cross-disciplinary aspects of tall buildings and the

urban habitat internationally. The initial tasks for the

new Research Manager will be to analyze areas for

research, identify funding opportunities, and to

prepare for submission to research funding bodies in

order to support funded research under the auspices

of CTBUH and IIT, in conjunction with relevant

industrial partners from within/without the CTBUH

network. Thereafter the Research Manager will be

responsible for coordinating the funded research

and ensuring the growth of the research division,

and the relevance of the research output to the

international community. It is anticipated that the

Research Manager will be heading a team of 3-4

researchers within 18 months - 2 years of his/her

appointment, as a result of the funded research

submissions.

Such are the challenges of this role that it is essential

that the candidate comes from a research

background, with prior experience of compiling and

submitting research funding bids, and undertaking

funded research. Whilst this candidate can be drawn

from any of the building professions – architecture,

engineering, construction, financial etc – a prior

experience with some aspect of tall buildings would

be considered an advantage. The hired candidate

would also be expected to contribute to the wider

initiatives of the Council beyond the new research

division.

This position could be filled through a fixed-term

assignment from industry. Salary & benefits would

be commensurate with background and experience.

Ideally candidates should hold a minimum of a PhD

qualification.

organizing conferences and events; and assisting

with the CTBUH Journal, annual awards etc. The

Council currently has plans for several new books /

publications and the ability to contribute to and

coordinate these efforts is key.

It is hoped that this person will join us from a

professional building background, preferably with

some prior experience of tall buildings, but with a

keen aptitude and track record for communications

and production.

A proven track record as an author with previously

published material would also be an advantage.

Salary & benefits would be commensurate with

background and experience. Ideally candidates

should hold a minimum of a Masters degree

qualification.

Production Assistant

The Production Assistant would assist across all

CTBUH initiatives, including but not limited to:

publications; website; events; communications;

membership etc. A recent graduate from one of the

building/design disciplines (architecture,

engineering etc) with strong graphic-design skills

would be a bonus. Salary & benefits would be

commensurate with background and experience.

Ideally candidates should hold a minimum of a

Masters degree qualification.

We are in what will no doubt be a seminal year

for this organization. The 2008 Congress

marked only the first of several anticipated

milestones for the Council this year. In the

coming months, we intend to appoint three

new full-time staff members

(see advertisement at right) and collaborate

with IABSE on their September conference in

Chicago. In addition, we are in the process of

creating several new publications on topics

that include Tall Buildings & Sustainability and

The History of the CTBUH, the latter of which

will mark the Council’s 40th anniversary in

2009. Keep an eye out for news on these and

other exciting activities in the CTBUH news

column in future issues of the Journal.

Further Information

The formal job submission procedure will be posted

on the CTBUH website (www.ctbuh.org) by end of

April. For further information or an informal

discussion on these opportunities in advance, please

contact CTBUH Executive Director, Antony Wood, at

the contact details below:

Communications Manager

The new Communications Manager will build upon

and drive recent initiatives in what and how we

communicate with our membership and beyond.

His / her tasks will include, but not be limited to:

writing, editing and coordinating books, publications

and newsletters; overseeing the CTBUH website;

coordinating with and soliciting membership;

soliciting sponsorship; coordinating working groups;

coordinating press releases and media relations;

Antony Wood

Executive Director, CTBUH (Council on Tall Buildings

and Urban Habitat)

Illinois Institute of Technology

S.R. Crown Hall

3360 South State Street

Chicago, IL 60616-3793

awood@ctbuh.org

www.ctbuh.org

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CTBUH 8th World Congress 2008

The 2008 CTBUH World Congress was a time

to explore the broad diversity inherent in

every aspect of the Building Industry.

Cruising the broad Sheikh Zayed strip in a

wood paneled Lexus taxi, the out-of-town

attendees of the Congress absorbed a visual

landscape marked by vast megaprojects and

impressively tall buildings with often non-

rectilinear geometry beset in an expansive

desert. For most, what they saw in Dubai was

a city unlike any they have seen before, but

one that increasingly impacts the nature of

their work back home.

Sunday

It is the day before the formal opening of the

2008 CTBUH World Congress. We left

Manama over the flat Bahrain desert toward

the southern tip of the island. Our destination

was the new resort project of Durrat Al

Bahrain (Figure 1). Our guide was Martin

Author

Robert Lau, Technical Editor

Roosevelt University

Evelyn T. Stone College of Professional Studies

430 S. Michigan Avenue

Chicago, IL 60605-1394, USA

e: laurobe@iit.edu

Robert M. Lau received his Bachelor of Architecture

degree from the Illinois Institute of Technology and

his Master of Business Administration at the

Chicago School of Real Estate at Roosevelt

University.

He has worked with Myron Goldsmith and Lucien

Lagrange at Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill and with

Helmut Jahn and Jim Goettsch at Murphy/Jahn in

Chicago. He is an advocate of the Chicago School of

Architecture, beginning with William LeBaron

Jenny, John Root, and Louis Sullivan and continuing

through Fazlur Khan and Myron Goldsmith.

He presented the paper ‘A Platonistic Program for

Block 37 in Chicago’s Loop’ at the December 2001

conference Building for the 21st Century in London

and the paper ‘Financial Aspects That Drive Design

Decisions’ at the October 2005 conference in New

York City. He was also a member of the NY

conference’s committee that reviewed the papers

to be presented.

In addition to practicing architecture in Chicago, he

is a Construction Committee member with the

Windy City Habitat for Humanity.

Foreword by Zak Kostura.

The themes and topics of the 2008 Congress

embraced these vibrant contrasts. The

seminars and workshops conveyed the

wealth of diverse approaches to the

technologies, techniques and philosophies

inherent in the realization of tall buildings

and mega projects around the world.

Honored guests spoke of varied approaches

to sustainable design that ranged from the

conventional to the cutting edge. Those

interested in the latter were treated with

renderings and visuals of dynamic, motor-

driven floor plates that rotate about a central

core to optimize daylighting and passive heat

gain. Still more experts discussed ways of

increasing the effectiveness of age-old

phenomena such as internal convection and

the stack effect, the very techniques that

helped keep the Bedouin cool during the

steamy summer nights in the Arabian desert.

Figure 1. Durrat Al Bahrain, www.durratbahrain.com

Knights, Marketing Analyst of Atkins Northern

Gulf Region. Peter Land, Marilyn Denzer and I

have been looking forward to this site tour of

the island nation of Bahrain for some time.

The Durrat project entails a necklace of

islands connected to the mainland for a new

resort community. Dredging is creating these

islands where there had been only desert

sand.

The scale and magnitude of the project is

astounding. Not just homes are being built

but an entire community for 30,000 people.

Besides the resort element, the project also

includes schools, retail, and office towers. The

dredging of the islands and the construction

of the towers will continue until 2025. This is

an example of the ‘typical’ Mideast mega-

project in the 21st Century!

Far-reaching tours of other Gulf region cities

served as bookends to the Congress.

Robert Lau, CTBUH Coordination Committee

Member and Technical Editor of the Journal,

was in attendance for the tours, the Congress,

and numerous networking events. His

experiences, logged in daily chronicles and

presented below, reflect the wealth of

insights and experiences offered to those

who participated.

Upon our return to Manama we saw our best

views of the Bahrain World Trade Center.

Prominent as a focal point to the city’s skyline,

the twin towers are unique in their shape.

They are designed to funnel and force the

gulf breezes through their gap to power the

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triple horizontal wind turbines suspended

between them (Figure 2). Innovative in

approach, this project will begin producing

electricity from wind power. Not only is it a

first for large—scale wind power, it will also

provide performance data in the coming

years for the wind industry regarding building

-induced wind velocities (Figures 3 and 4).

This is an example of the progressive thinking

of the gulf region’s projects. What others do

not even consider at the design stage the

gulf region’s leadership not only proposes but

also provides the resources to make it

happen in ‘fast track’ time.

Figure 3. Wind Turbine and Bridge between towers

We left Manama on an evening Emirates Air

flight for the Dubai Congress. We arrived in

Dubai refreshed and anticipating the events

of the next few days.

Figure 2. North elevation of Bahrain World Trade Center

Figure 4. Viewing Wind Turbine from exterior balcony

Monday

development of his city. The occasionally

contrasting philosophies conveyed by these

speakers set the stage for the diverse and

progressive discourse that unfolded in each

session of the 2008 Congress.

Weismantle of SOM (Figure 6) took an

alternative approach to forward thinking

design by studying the past, and presented

on naturally-occurring environmental

phenomena that are intensified by the height

of modern tall buildings. Leung and

Weismantle discussed the great potential for

utilizing these phenomena to either generate

energy or reduce the demand of the

building’s systems.

We awoke to fog that had engulfed the

Grand Hyatt Hotel, the venue for the Council’s

banner event. Chairman David Scott opened

the Congress of over 900 international

delegates by introducing Sadhu

Johnston, Chief Environmental Officer for the

City of Chicago; Peter Rees, City Planning

Officer for the Corporation of London, and

our host HE Hussain Nasser Lootah of Dubai

Municipality (Figure 5). Each of the

prominent panelists spoke of a starkly

different urban context; yet each underscored

the importance of promoting environmental

sustainability through management and

The speakers that participated in the day’s

sessions painted a vivid portrait of the tall

buildings of the future; one that embraces

technologies and design techniques that run

the gamut from the conventional to the far

fetched. David Fischer of Dynamic

Architecture Group set a futuristic precedent

early in the day with an introduction to high-

rise buildings with independently rotating

floor plates. Luke Leung and Peter

It is clear that there is much to be learned

from the projects currently under

development around the world. Roy Denoon

of CPP Wind Engineering and Air Quality

Consultants discussed essential 

Figure 5. From left to right: David Scott, CTBUH Chairman; HE Hussain Nasser Lootah, Dubai Municipality; Sadhu Johnston,

Chief Environmental Officer for the City of Chicago; Peter Rees, Chief Planning Officer for the Corporation of London

Figure 6. Luke Leung and Peter Weismantle, Skidmore

Owings & Merrill LLP

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