CTBUH Best Tall Building MEA 2025 Is Dubai’s Ciel Tower

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH), since re-branded the Council on Vertical Urbanism, announced the Best Tall Buildings Worldwide in October during the CTBUH International Conference in Toronto, Canada. The annual program recognizes projects that have made extraordinary contributions to the advancement of tall buildings and the urban environment. Awards of Excellence were bestowed across many categories and regions, including the Middle East and Africa (MEA). In this region, the overall winner was Ciel Tower in Dubai Marina, a 365-m-tall, 82-story tower designed by NORR Group with vertical-transportation by TK Elevator that became the tallest hotel tower in the world. Finalists for the Best Tall Building MEA were Act One Act Two, a two-tower residential and retail development in Dubai’s Opera District; Azrieli Center Modi, three office towers in Modi’in-Maccabim-Re’ut, Israel; Landmark TLV Tower A, an office tower in Tel Aviv, Israel; and Sabah Al Salem University City — Kuwait University, in Kuwait City.