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The Council on Vertical Urbanism (CVU), previously the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH). Shaping the vertical future of cities.

Sharing the knowledge to build it.

06/12/2026

We are pleased to share the recipients of the CVU 2026 Awards in the Best Tall Building, 200-299 Meters category:

▪️One Bangkok Tower 4, Bangkok, Thailand
▪️Pacific Xintiandi Commercial Central Tower 1, Shanghai, China
▪️Sany IROOTECH Headquarters, Guangzhou, China

Congrats to all the team members!

Award of Excellence winners will advance to the next phase of the competition during the 2026 VU Summit, taking place 26–29 October in London, where project teams will present their work live before juries. Final “best in category” distinctions and overall awards will be announced during the conference’s awards ceremony and dinner on 28 October.

Now in its 24th year, CVU’s annual Awards Program continues to serve as an international benchmark for excellence in vertical urbanism and city-making.

Images
2: One Bangkok Tower 4 © Sky Media courtesy of KPF
3. Pacific Xintiandi Commercial Central Tower 1 © Courtesy of Shui On Land
4: Sany IROOTECH Headquarters, image by Dave Burk © SOM

See the full list of winners: https://verticalurbanism.org/resources/award-recipients/

06/11/2026

Only one week remaining to lock in early-bird savings for the 2026 VU Summit, taking place 26–29 October in London.

Take your experience to the next level.

The VU Summit program brings together global voices, leading research, and real-world insight to explore how vertical urbanism can shape more resilient, livable, and culturally rich cities.

Register before 18 June to save and be part of this pinnacle event of 1000+ cohorts.

🔗https://vusummit.com/register/

06/10/2026

Meet the CVU Resilience Table panel meeting online on 23 June.

▪️Irina Waltz, Director, Strategy and Technology Group, Aon, providing insights into what insurance and reinsurance partners now require from project teams and how that bar is moving upstream.
▪️ Anastasia Herasimovich, Global Real Estate and Construction Practice Group Partner, Baker McKenzie, who will discuss how physical climate risk travels across the project lifecycle and where the legal architecture is shifting.
▪️ Mariana Silva, Senior Infrastructure Finance Specialist, Global Infrastructure Facility (World Bank), giving a multilateral capital lens on what gets financed and built to last.
▪️ Sanne van der Burgh, R&D and Climate Leader, MVRDV will discuss how design teams integrate climate risk into practice at the scale that vertical projects demand.

Moderated by Natalia Moudrak, lead author of the “Underwriting the Future of Resilience” white paper (World Bank, IFC, MIGA, G20, GIF, Aon).

Built around a simple idea: the best solutions happen when the right people get in the same room early enough to make a difference.

If you're interested in how cities and buildings can become more resilient in a rapidly changing world, this is a discussion worth joining.

📅 23 June
⏰ 10:00 AM CT / 5:00 PM CET
🎟️ Free webinar

Save your spot and register now:
https://verticalurbanism.org/news-events/

06/09/2026

✨ We are excited to share the recipients of the CVU 2026 Awards in the Best Tall Building, 100-199 Meters category:

▪️18T Mansion, Chongqing, China
▪️EZ Parque da Cidade, São Paulo, Brazil
▪️Guangzhou One Pengrui, Guangzhou, China
▪️Parkline Place, Sydney, Australia
▪️Shenzhen Building Craftsman Headquarters, Shenzhen, China
▪️SHIBUYA AXSH, Tokyo, Japan
▪️Xinhu Hangzhou Prism, Hangzhou, China

Congrats to all the team members!

Project teams will present their work live before juries at the 2026 VU Summit in London. Final “best in category” distinctions and overall awards will be announced during the conference’s awards ceremony and dinner on 28 October.

Images
2: 18T Mansion © Kris Provoost
3: EZ Parque da Cidade © Joana França
4: Guangzhou One Pengrui ©
5: Parkline Place © Rex Zou
6: Shenzhen Building Craftsman Headquarters © Aaron Hargreaves, Foster + Partners
7: SHIBUYA AXSH © Aedas
8: Xinhu Hangzhou Prism © Kawasumi Kobayashi Kenji Photograph Office

See the full list of winners: https://verticalurbanism.org/resources/award-recipients/AoE 100m-199m winners

06/06/2026

Offered jointly by the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) and the Council on Vertical Urbanism (CVU), the Masters of Tall Buildings and Vertical Urbanism (MTBVU) is a one-year graduate program focused on high-rise design, sustainable urbanism, emerging technologies, and the future of cities, where students benefit from:

🔸Research-driven studios addressing real urban challenges;
🔹Access to leading practitioners and global firms;
🔸International collaboration opportunities;
🔹A global professional network through CVU; and
🔸An accelerated curriculum designed to advance careers quickly.

Applications are now being accepted for the 2026 fall semester—through 15 June for international students, 15 August for domestic students.

To explore the curriculum, admissions requirements, and additional program information, or share this with someone who you think would be interested: https://verticalurbanism.org/get-involved/education/mtbvu/

06/05/2026

Just two weeks remain to lock in early-bird savings for the 2026 VU Summit, taking place 26–29 October in London.

Set in one of the world’s most complex urban laboratories, this year's summit will investigate how cities can evolve upward without losing what makes them work at street level. Through a solutions-oriented agenda of stimulating keynotes, workshops, presentations, and off-site tours, you'll engage in candid discussions designed to tackle what works, what doesn’t, and why.

Register before 18 June to save and be among a global cohort of 1,000+ multidisciplinary leaders and decision-makers in vertical urbanism.

🔗https://vusummit.com/register/

06/04/2026

We are pleased to share the recipients of the CVU 2026 Awards in the Best Tall Building, Under 100 Meters category:

▪️Midea Global Innovation Park, Shanghai, China
▪️Punggol Digital District, Singapore
▪️Trellis, South Brisbane, Australia

Congrats to all the team members!

Award of Excellence winners will advance to the next phase of the competition during the 2026 VU Summit, taking place 26–29 October in London, where project teams will present their work live before juries. Final “best in category” distinctions and overall awards will be announced during the conference’s awards ceremony and dinner on 28 October.

Now in its 24th year, CVU’s annual Awards Program continues to serve as an international benchmark for excellence in vertical urbanism and city-making.

Images
2: Midea Global Innovation Park © Midea Group
3: Punggol Digital District © Darren Soh
4: Trellis © Mark Nilon

See the full list of winners: https://verticalurbanism.org/resources/award-recipients/

05/27/2026

We are excited to announce the recipients of the CVU 2026 Award of Excellence honors, recognizing 73 projects, concepts and initiatives that exemplify new directions in vertical urbanism across the globe.

Awardees representing work from 20 countries across 20 categories and subcategories reflect a growing emphasis on adaptability, interdisciplinary thinking and long-term urban value.

💫 See the full list of winners: https://verticalurbanism.org/resources/award-recipients/

The 2026 competition brought together submissions from architects, engineers, developers, planners, contractors, manufacturers and researchers working at multiple scales, from individual buildings and structural systems to district-scale infrastructure and urban regeneration strategies. Winning entries were selected by multidisciplinary juries composed of experts from across the built environment industry.

Award of Excellence winners will advance to the next phase of the competition during the 2026 VU Summit, taking place 26–29 October in London, where project teams will present their work live before juries to compete for the honor of “best in category” distinction.

05/21/2026

🎟️Registration is now open for the Council on Vertical Urbanism's 2026 VU Summit, taking place 26–29 October in London. 💂‍♂️💂‍♀️

This year's theme, "Density and Identity: Shaping Skylines, Elevating Culture" will explore the tension between global prototypes and place-specific design, examining how tall buildings and high-density urbanism can respond to climate, mobility, and housing pressures while strengthening identity.

Sign up now to be among a global cohort of 1,000+ multidisciplinary leaders and decision-makers, including architects, engineers, developers, investors, urban planners, and policy makers, among other disciplines, to examine and address the myriad forces redefining tall buildings and the cities they create.

Prices will go up after 18 June. Register now to save!

Stay tuned for more updates!

Learn more: https://vusummit.com/

05/19/2026

We are pleased to announce our continuing collaboration with MVRDV NEXT as a 2026 Sustainability Executive Program Partner, reinforcing a shared commitment to transforming how embodied carbon is understood and addressed in the design of tall buildings and dense urban districts.

Through this partnership, MVRDV NEXT brings a research-driven, data-informed approach to the program, demonstrating how early-stage carbon intelligence can shape more effective and measurable sustainability outcomes.

Central to this effort is CarbonSpace, an open-access platform that enables transparent assessment of upfront embodied carbon at the earliest stages of design, when decisions have the greatest impact.

By integrating CarbonSpace insights with CVU’s global network and building a database, the collaboration aims to establish clearer benchmarks for embodied carbon across regions and typologies. This evidence-based approach supports more informed decision-making by designers, developers, investors, and policymakers, helping the industry move beyond aspiration toward measurable progress.

Together, CVU and MVRDV NEXT are advancing a new model of performance-validated sustainability, one rooted not only in materials and systems, but in the intelligence that informs them.

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