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San Francisco – Winning the 2019 CTBUH Best Tall Building Worldwide Award, this tapering building minimizes shadows and uses many techniques to improve environmental sustainability.
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Riyadh – The CMA Tower is the tallest of the five structures that make up the plaza of the King Abdullah Financial District.
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Beijing – The recently completed new headquarters of China Central Television contains the entire television-making process within a single building.
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Front Inc.
CTBUH Member Level: Donor
Member Since: 2019
Member Office:- Hong Kong, China
- London, United Kingdom
Field of Expertise:- Façade Design / Engineering
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Working well above the plane of purely sculptural architecture, the project embodies, on an urbanistic scale, where the future of tall buildings and urban cities is heading.
The recently completed new headquarters of China Central Television contains the entire television-making process within a single building.
A crystalline architectural beacon along the shore of the Hudson River, 100 11th Avenue utilizes a multi-pane panelized façade system to impart its signature shimmer on Manhattan.
The building addresses the adjacent High Line in a very successful way, rising from its ultra-compact site to create a very positive relationship with the elevated linear park.
Cooper Square Hotel, New York City
Located in the heart of the East Village, this high-rise luxury hotel, offering 145 rooms and suites, opened to guests in 2008.
Capital Market Authority Tower, Riyadh
The CMA Tower is the tallest of the five structures that make up the plaza of the King Abdullah Financial District.
MahaNakhon is optimized for the tropical climate of Bangkok with a “pixelated” design concept that affords highly valuable outdoor space to tenants.
Shinsegae International, Seoul
Shinsegae International tactfully merges formal restraint reminiscent of High Modernism with symbolic gestures that align the tower with its function.
Winner of the 2019 CTBUH Fire & Risk Engineering Award, this building has an atrium spanning the full height of the building with the exterior composed of a freeform exoskeleton.
Brookfield Place Tower, Calgary
At the time of completion, this building was the tallest in Alberta, and part of a larger development plan that included a large public plaza.
10 Hudson Yards, New York City
This building uses four glazing systems to make up the façades; a cable wall, and three types of shingled curtain walls, composed of energy-efficient glass.
Five Manhattan West, New York City
Winner of a CTBUH 2019 Renovation Award of Excellence, this building had once been a warehouse, and has been redeveloped as office and retail space.
Salesforce Tower, San Francisco
Winning the 2019 CTBUH Best Tall Building Worldwide Award, this tapering building minimizes shadows and uses many techniques to improve environmental sustainability.
About Front Inc.
Established in 2002, Front is a specialist façade consulting and engineering practice with offices in New York, San Francisco, Seattle, London and Hong Kong. We are a cross-disciplinary group of creative individuals with professional backgrounds in Architecture and Engineering. We work with owners, architects, engineers, construction managers, contractors, testing facilities and fabricators in a collaborative fashion. We are specialists in architectural façade systems for new and retrofit construction, including curtain wall, bespoke cladding systems and the use of structural glass, fabrics and related lightweight structures deploying a wide palette of materials. Our work ranges in size and complexity and includes large-scale high-rise projects, public and cultural institutions, additions to historically sensitive sites, as well as custom designed work for retail and private residences
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Award Winners & Award of Excellence Recipients
The CTBUH Awards recognize projects and individuals that have made extraordinary contributions to the advancement of tall buildings and the urban environment, and that achieve sustainability at the highest and broadest level.
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Front Inc. Tall Building Facts
| 150m+ Buildings | 11 Completed • 2 Under Constr. |
| 300m+ Buildings | 2 Completed • 1 Under Constr. |
| Average Building Age | 5 Years |
| Most Common Function | office, 8 Buildings |
| Most Common Material | Composite, 8 Buildings |
All building-related facts are for 150m+ buildings currently in the database.
Tall Buildings Involving Front Inc.
| 1 | PIF Tower | 2020 | 385 m | Riyadh | |
| 2 | Salesforce Tower | 2018 | 326 m | San Francisco | |
| 3 | MahaNakhon | 2016 | 314 m | Bangkok | |
| 4 | 10 Hudson Yards | 2016 | 268 m | New York City | |
| 5 | Brookfield Place Tower One | 2017 | 247 m | Calgary | |
| 6 | Shenzhen Stock Exchange | 2013 | 246 m | Shenzhen | |
| 7 | CCTV Headquarters | 2012 | 234 m | Beijing | |
| 8 | Shenzhen Energy Headquarters North To… | 2017 | 218 m | Shenzhen | |
| 9 | Strata Tower | 2022 | 168 m | New York City | |
| 10 | Waldorf Astoria Las Vegas | 2009 | 164 m | Las Vegas |
| Completed | Arch. Topped Out | Struct. Topped Out | Under Constr. |
| 1 | Tower Fifth | - | 474 m | New York City | |
| 2 | 262 Fifth Avenue | - | 308 m | New York City | |
| 3 | Angkasa Raya | - | 268 m | Kuala Lumpur | |
| 4 | 80 Flatbush | 2025 | 256 m | New York City | |
| 5 | Perth+ West Tower | - | 220 m | Perth | |
| 6 | 100 Flatbush | 2023 | 155 m | New York City | |
| 7 | Perth+ East Tower | - | 87 m | Perth | |
| 8 | Media Tower 1 | - | - | Doha | |
| 9 | Alai Siete | - | - | Cancún | |
| 10 | Alai Uno | - | - | Cancún |
| 1 | Tower Fifth | - | 474 m | New York City | |
| 2 | PIF Tower | 2020 | 385 m | Riyadh | |
| 3 | Salesforce Tower | 2018 | 326 m | San Francisco | |
| 4 | MahaNakhon | 2016 | 314 m | Bangkok | |
| 5 | 262 Fifth Avenue | - | 308 m | New York City | |
| 6 | Angkasa Raya | - | 268 m | Kuala Lumpur | |
| 7 | 10 Hudson Yards | 2016 | 268 m | New York City | |
| 8 | 80 Flatbush | 2025 | 256 m | New York City | |
| 9 | Brookfield Place Tower One | 2017 | 247 m | Calgary | |
| 10 | Shenzhen Stock Exchange | 2013 | 246 m | Shenzhen |
| Completed | Arch. Topped Out | Proposed |