CEFC congratulates Quay Quarter Tower on being named Best Tall Building Worldwide

The CEFC congratulates Quay Quarter Tower on accruing six awards including Best Tall Building Worldwide at the 2023 Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat Awards. Quay Quarter Tower is one of the assets in the Mirvac Wholesale Office Fund to which the CEFC has a $100 million commitment to help set a new benchmark in commercial property in Australia.

CTBUH media release

3 November 2023

CTBUH Names 2023 Best Tall Building Worldwide

CTBUH announced the winner of its annual award for the 2023 best tall building worldwide as Quay Quarter Tower, in Sydney. Winners were also announced in five regional categories, five height categories and a dozen other functional categories (a complete list of categories and winners appears below) at the organization’s annual international conference, themed Humanizing High Density, in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur.

“The global construction industry confronts an emerging dilemma: should we build new structures, or should we renew existing ones to accommodate the anticipated growth in urban density?” explained CTBUH CEO Javier Quintana de Uña. “The pursued remedies can impact not only individual structures but also entire cities and the built environment in general and must take into account environmental, economic and social sustainability. Sydney’s Quay Quarter Tower exemplifies the forward-looking strategies and solutions that address this density dilemma head on, significantly reducing carbon emissions and helping to mitigate the impact of climate change while meeting the needs of its occupants and the surrounding community.”

Quay Quarter Tower, owned by Dexus Wholesale Property Fund (DWPF), Mirvac Wholesale Office Fund (MWOF) and Rest Super, repositioned an existing underused building, the 1976 AMP Center, retaining a significant portion of its beams, columns and slabs, as well as over 95 percent of its existing core, an approach that resulted in an embodied carbon savings of 12,000 metric tons in structure. Additionally, a self-shading façade reduces solar radiation, minimizing mechanical loads on the building, and strategically positioned atria enable natural daylight to permeate the 2,000-square-meter floor plates, improving energy efficiency in the interior. And an innovative removable floor system in the atria allows occupants to remove and replace floor sections, affording flexibility that can accommodate a wide range of uses as businesses grow and work practices evolve, extending the life cycle of the building. As a result of these carbon-reducing features and others, the building exceeds the operational performance of many newly constructed buildings and has achieved a 6-Star Green Star rating.  

2023 CTBUH Award of Excellence Category Winners:

Best Tall Building Worldwide: Quay Quarter Tower, Sydney, Australia
Best Tall Building, Special Commendation: DJI Sky City, Shenzhen, China
Best Tall Building, Americas: Engineering laboratories | Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogota, Columbia
Best Tall Building, Asia: CapitaSpring, Singapore
Best Tall Building, Oceania: Quay Quarter Tower, Sydney, Australia
Best Tall Building, Europe: Sara Kulturhus, Skellefteå, Sweden
Best Tall Building, Middle East and Africa: Atlantis The Royal Resort, Dubai, UAE
Best Tall Building Under 100 Meters: Valley, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Best Tall Building 100–199 Meters: Lighthouse 2.0, Aarhus, Denmark
Best Tall Building 200–299 Meters: CapitaSpring, Singapore
Best Tall Building 300–399 Meters: The Spiral, New York City, United States
Best Tall Building 400 Meters and Above: Guangxi China Resources Tower, Nanning, China
Best Tall Non-Building: Lotus Tower, Colombo, Sri Lanka
Urban Habitat Award: Quay Quarter Lanes, Sydney, Australia
Future Project Award: Atlassian Central, Sydney, Australia
10-Year Award: The Interlace, Singapore
Construction Award: Quay Quarter Tower, Sydney, Australia
Repositioning Award: Quay Quarter Tower, Sydney, Australia
Innovation Award: Urban Sequoia NOW
Structure Award: Quay Quarter Tower, Sydney, Australia
Systems Award: Ping An Property & Casualty Insurance Tower, Shenzhen, China
Space Within Award: Quay Quarter Tower, Sydney
Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) Award: Turner Construction 2030