EW POY 2023 Winner Named World Building of the Year

Quay Quarter Tower; image © 3XN

The 206-m-tall Quay Quarter Tower, which has a completely redesigned and modernized elevator system by Schindler Lifts Australia that was awarded the 2023 ELEVATOR WORLD Project of the Year award for Elevators, Modernization, was recently named World Building of the Year at the World Architecture Festival (WAF) in Lisbon, Architects’ Journal reports. Close to Sydney Opera House is an adaptive reuse of an existing 1970s commercial high-rise. The “upcycled” office building, conceived by the Danish practice 3XN as five stacked “shifting volumes,” kept two-thirds of the earlier tower’s existing columns, beams and slabs and 95% of its internal walls. The WAF jury were impressed by how the “vertical village,” developed in collaboration with BVN, created a sense of community and by the series of stacked atriums that provided “exceptional views, while also allowing daylight deep into each floor.” Other winners at WAF included Future Project of the Year, which went to Dream Pathway – the connection between a sports recreation park and a cultural street – in Iran, designed by CAATStudio (Kamboozia Architecture and Design Studio).

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