26 projects from 17 countries were nominated for the International Highrise Award 2014/15. A jury of experts selected five buildings as finalists, and among them Bosco Verticale in Milan was chosen as the award winner.

Best High-Rises 2014/15

Bosco Verticale, Milan
Boeri Studio
Photo: Kirsten Bucher

#13 — Bosco Verticale, Milan
Boeri Studio
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#10 — Bosco Verticale, Milan
Boeri Studio
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#11 — Bosco Verticale, Milan
Boeri Studio
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#12 — Bosco Verticale, Milan
Boeri Studio
Photo: Kirsten Bucher

Award winner

Bosco Verticale residential towers in Milan win International Highrise Award 2014/15

“Bosco Verticale is a marvelous project! It’s an expression of the extensive human need for green. The ‘wooded high-rises’ are a striking example of a symbiosis of architecture and nature,” pronounced the jury of experts chaired by the last IHP prize winner Christoph Ingenhoven. The project, they continued, is a definitive role model for construction in densely populated zones in other European cities.

The two relatively small residential towers are part of the comprehensive development of the district in northern Milan. Alongside the emphatic sculptural quality and the innovative greening, the twin towers devised by Stefano Boeri Architetti are likewise attractive for their context: The lobbies offer inhabitants not only an entrance zone for shared uses, but the directly adjoining future park blends visually with them and is the continuation of the vertical greenery.

Got to Bosco Verticale

Bosco Verticale
Mailand, Italien

Architecture: Boeri Studio,
Mailand, Italien
Client: Hines Italia SFR S.p.A.
Function: Wohnen
Height: 112 m, 74 m
Completion: June 2014

Finalists

The finalists of the International Highrise Award 2014/15 consisted of five extraordinary projects, very different in function and design.

Nominations

26 outstanding projects from 17 countries were nominated for the International Highrise Award 2014/15.

Nominees

8 Chifley Square
Sydney, Australia

Architecture

Rogers Stirk
Harbour
& Partners,
London, UK
Nominees

Al Bahr Towers
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Architecture

Aedas,
Bejing, China
Nominees

Ardmore Residence
Singapore

Architecture

UN Studio,
Amsterdam,
Netherlands
PREISTRÄGER

Bosco Verticale
Mailand, Italien

Architecture

Boeri Studio,
Mailand, Italien
Nominees

Cayan Tower
Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Architecture

Skidmore, Owings
& Merrill,
Chicago IL,
USA
Nominees

CCTV Headquarters
Bejing, China

Architecture

OMA Office
for Metropolitan
Architecture; Rem Koolhaas
and Ole Scheeren,
Rotterdam, Netherlands
Nominees

DC Tower I
Vienna, Austria

Architecture

Dominique Perrault
Architecture,
Paris, France
Nominees

De Kroon
Den Haag, Netherlands

Architecture

Rapp und Rapp,
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Finalists

De Rotterdam
Rotterdam, Niederlande

Architecture

Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA),
Rotterdam, Niederlande
Nominees

Doha Tower
Doha, Qatar

Architecture

Ateliers Jean
Nouvel,
Paris,
France
Nominees

Dumankaya Ikon
Istanbul , Turkey

Architecture

Tago Architects,
Istanbul,
Turkey
Nominees

Ideo Morph 38
Bangkok, Thailand

Architecture

Somdoon Architects,
Bangkok, Thailand
Nominees

Mercedes House
New York, USA

Architecture

TEN Arquitectos,
New York NY, USA
Nominees

Mercury City Tower
Moscow, Russia

Architecture

Frank Williams & Partners,
New York NY, USA;
G.L. Sirota;
M.M.Posokhin,
Moscow, Russia
Nominees

One 57
New York City NY, USA

Architecture

Atelier Christian
de Portzamparc,
Paris, France
Finalists

One Central Park
Sydney, Australien

Architecture

Ateliers Jean Nouvel,
Paris, Frankreich
Nominees

Pearl River Tower
Guangzhou, China

Architecture

Skidmore, Owings
& Merrill.
Chicago IL, USA
Finalists

Renaissance Barcelona Fira Hotel
L’Hospitalet de Llobregat bei Barcelona, Spanien

Architecture

Ateliers Jean Nouvel,
Paris, Frankreich
Nominees

Sheraton Huzhou Hot Spring Resort
Huzhou, China

Architecture

MAD Architects
Co, Ltd.,
Bejing, China
Finalists

Sliced Porosity Block - Raffles City Chengdu
Chengdu, China

Architecture

Steven Holl Architects,
New York NY, USA
Nominees

Taunusturm
Frankfurt / Main, Germany

Architecture

Gruber
Kleine-Kraneburg
Architekten,
Frankfurt / Main,
Germany
Nominees

Tehe Leadenhill Building
London, UK

Architecture

Rogers Stirk
Harbour & Partners,
London, UK
Nominees

The Bow
Calgary , Canada

Architecture

Foster + Partners,
London, UK
Nominees

The Shard London Bridge Tower
London, UK

Architecture

Renzo Piano
Building
Workshop
Paris, France
Nominees

Torre Costanera
Santiago, Chile

Architecture

Pelli Clarke
Pelli Architects
New Haven CT, USA
Nominees

Zoofenster - Waldorf Astoria Berlin
Berlin, Germany

Architecture

Prof. Christoph
Mäckler
Architekten,
Frankfurt / Main, Germany

Jury

An international jury of experts consisting of architects, structural engineers, and real estate specialists headed by Christoph Ingenhoven (ingenhoven architects, Düsseldorf) selected the five finalists and the winner from the nominees.

IHP2014 Jurysitzung FotoOlafHermann 01 — Photo: Olaf Hermann

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IHP2014 Jurysitzung FotoOlafHermann 05 — Photo: Olaf Hermann

Christoph Ingenhoven

Architect
ingenhoven architects
Dusseldorf
Louisa Hutton

Architect
Sauerbruch Hutton
Berlin
Jan Knippers

Structural Egineer
Knippers Helbig Advanced Engineering
Stuttgart
Swantje Kühn

Architect
Becker Gewers Kühn
Berlin
Yew-Thong Leong

Professor of Engineering
and Architectural Science
Yeates School of Graduate
Studies der Ryerson University
Toronto
Neil Thomas

Founder and Director
of Atelier One
Manchester
Horst R. Muth

Head of Project Management Real Estate
DekaBank
Frankfurt / Main
Peter Cachola Schmal

Director
Deutsches Architekturmuseum
(DAM)
Frankfurt / Main

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