Seoul
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Shinsegae International tactfully merges formal restraint reminiscent of High Modernism with symbolic gestures that align the tower with its function.
Featured Buildings Involving MKA
Chicago
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This 52-story building was constructed adjacent to and over active rail lines to enhance the character of this prominent river frontage while concealing the existing rail lines below.
Featured Buildings Involving MKA
Chicago
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The design concept defined an initial building to serve a company’s immediate needs and planned for vertical expansion in the future.
Featured Buildings Involving MKA
Blue Cross-Blue Shield Tower, Chicago
The design concept defined an initial building to serve a company’s immediate needs and planned for vertical expansion in the future.
The signature cantilevered balconies are breathtaking and exemplary of where concrete technology can take tall building design today.
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital, Chicago
Lurie Children's Hospital is one of the top pediatric providers in the Midwest, and is affiliated with Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
This 60-story mixed-use building, located on the north bank of the Chicago River, features a sunlit waterfront public garden with access to the river's edge.
Roosevelt University Academic, Student Life Residence Center, Chicago
This vertical campus' glass and steel design is an architectural counterpoint to the grey limestone of the Auditorium Building its connected to.
One Rincon Hill, San Francisco
Located on the apex of Rincon Hill, this residential complex contains two skyscrapers that share a common townhouse podium.
This residential skyscraper is located in the Denny Triangle neighborhood of Seattle and is designed to be eco-friendly with high walkability and public transit scores.
Shinsegae International, Seoul
Shinsegae International tactfully merges formal restraint reminiscent of High Modernism with symbolic gestures that align the tower with its function.
This 52-story building was constructed adjacent to and over active rail lines to enhance the character of this prominent river frontage while concealing the existing rail lines below.
Utilizing a unique core-supported structure with a very small footprint at grade, the design resolves considerable site challenges and provides a 54-story Class A office tower.
The 76-story Columbia Center features a famous public observatory and, at the time of its completion in 1984, was the tallest building on the West Coast.
This residential building has two floors of retail and a series of lightboxes which visually conceals the parking levels from the street.
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.
MKA’s passion is creating structural systems for buildings of all shapes, sizes, and complexities and civil site and infrastructure designs for architectural projects. In addition to traditional structural and civil engineering services, they offer enhanced expertise in seismic, wind, vibration, existing building, performance-based, and blast engineering and site strategies for low-impact design, site infrastructure planning, strategic water planning, and excavation shoring.
MKA has been presented with a top national ACEC engineering design award (the most significant recognition by their peers) 26 times in the last 29 years–three times more than any competitor engineering firm in the United States; and the "Grand Conceptor" award three times. Collectively, their projects have won 500+ awards from a variety of industry organizations. If it can be done, MKA can do it.
CTBUH Malaysia Hosts Seminar: The Public Realm of Tall Buildings
21 Feb 2019, Event Report – CTBUH Malaysia hosted a seminar exploring the relationship between the design and…
Seismic Design Working Group Meets at 2018 Conference
20 Oct 2018, Event Report – The CTBUH Performance-Based Seismic Design Working Group reconvened at the CTBUH…
Ron Klemencic Wins ENR Award of Excellence
6 Apr 2018, CTBUH News – Former CTBUH Chairman Ron Klemencic has been awarded the ENR 2018 Award of…
CTBUH Chairman, 2001 – 2006
Seattle, United States
CTBUH Advisory Group, 2013 – Present
Seattle, United States
CTBUH City Representative, 2012 – 2013
St. Louis, United States
CTBUH Chairman, 2001 – 2006
Seattle, United States
CTBUH Advisory Group, 2013 – Present
Seattle, United States
CTBUH City Representative, 2012 – 2013
St. Louis, United States
CTBUH Future Leaders Committee, Global, 2018 – Present
Seattle, United States
CTBUH Future Leaders Committee, Seattle, 2018 – Present
Seattle, United States
CTBUH Young Professionals Committee, Chicago, 2011 – 2013
Chicago, United States
CTBUH Working Group: Building Damping Technologies, 2016 – 2018
Seattle, United States
CTBUH Working Group: Tall Timber, 2014 – Present
Seattle, United States
Rob Chmielowski
CTBUH Annual Conference, Presenter, 2019
Seattle, United States
Jon Magnusson
CTBUH Annual Conference, Presenter, 1995
Chicago, United States
Derek Beaman
CTBUH Annual Conference, Session Chair, 2012
Seattle, United States
CTBUH Annual Conference, Steering Committee, 2019
Chicago, United States
CTBUH Student Competition First-Round Jury, 2017
Seattle, United States
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.
Structural Gymnastics and the Public Realm
21 Feb 2019 – Ron Klemencic, Chairman & CEO, Magnusson Klemencic Associates
Resilient Design Optimization – An Oxymoron or a Reality?
30 Oct 2017 – Donald Davies, Magnusson Klemencic Associates
What's the Biggest Threat to a Skyscraper?
18 May 2017 –
CTBUH 2017 Australia Conference
Fire Safety: Simon Lay, Olsson Fire & Risk; Structural Engineering: Don Davies, Magnusson Klemencic Associates; Urban Realm: Nicole Dosso, SOM; Architecture: Antony Wood, CTBUH
Engineering Properties of Composite Mega-Columns with Separately Encased Hot Rolled Steel Profiles
17 Oct 2016 –
Cities to Megacities: Shaping Dense Vertical Urbanism
Congzhen Xiao & Chen Tao, China Academy of Building Research; Fei Deng, Tsinghua University; et al
Steel and the Skyscraper City: A Study on the Influence of Steel on the Design of Tall Buildings
26 Oct 2015 –
The Future of Tall: A Selection of Written Works on Current Skyscraper Innovations
Shelley Finnigan, ArcelorMittal; Barry Charnish, Entuitive; Robert Chmielowski, Magnusson Klemencic Associates
Life Cycle Analysis: Are We There Yet?
16 Sep 2014 –
CTBUH 2014 Shanghai Conference Proceedings
Donald Davies & Ron Klemencic, Magnusson Klemencic Associates
150m+ Buildings | 50 Completed • 8 Under Constr. |
300m+ Buildings | 3 Completed • 1 Under Constr. |
Average Building Age | 11 Years |
Most Common Function | office, 26 Buildings |
Most Common Material | Concrete, 29 Buildings |
All building-related facts are for 150m+ buildings currently in the database.
1 | Vista Tower | 2020 | 363 m | Chicago | |
2 | Suning Plaza Tower 1 | 2018 | 338 m | Zhenjiang | |
3 | Salesforce Tower | 2018 | 326 m | San Francisco | |
4 | Leatop Plaza | 2012 | 303 m | Guangzhou | |
5 | One Chicago Square East Tower | 2022 | 296 m | Chicago | |
6 | Key Tower | 1991 | 289 m | Cleveland | |
7 | Columbia Center | 1984 | 284 m | Seattle | |
8 | Oceanwide Center Tower 1 | 2021 | 277 m | San Francisco | |
9 | NEMA Chicago | 2019 | 273 m | Chicago | |
10 | Aqua at Lakeshore East | 2009 | 262 m | Chicago |
Completed | Arch. Topped Out | Struct. Topped Out | Under Constr. |
1 | Nanjing International Center 3 | - | 346 m | Nanjing | |
2 | Xinda Kingtown International Center Tow… | - | 320 m | Suzhou | |
3 | One Brickell City Centre | - | 317 m | Miami | |
4 | Suzhou Keyne Center Office and Hotel | - | 300 m | Suzhou | |
5 | 888 2nd Avenue | - | 271 m | Seattle | |
6 | Xinda Kingtown International Center Tow… | - | 260 m | Suzhou | |
7 | Salesforce Tower | 2023 | 255 m | Chicago | |
8 | BMO Tower | 2022 | 222 m | Chicago | |
9 | Suzhou Keyne Center Residential Tower | - | 220 m | Suzhou | |
10 | Shihao Center Tower 1 | - | 200 m | Chengdu |
1 | Vista Tower | 2020 | 363 m | Chicago | |
2 | Nanjing International Center 3 | - | 346 m | Nanjing | |
3 | Suning Plaza Tower 1 | 2018 | 338 m | Zhenjiang | |
4 | Salesforce Tower | 2018 | 326 m | San Francisco | |
5 | Xinda Kingtown International Center Tow… | - | 320 m | Suzhou | |
6 | One Brickell City Centre | - | 317 m | Miami | |
7 | Leatop Plaza | 2012 | 303 m | Guangzhou | |
8 | Suzhou Keyne Center Office and Hotel | - | 300 m | Suzhou | |
9 | One Chicago Square East Tower | 2022 | 296 m | Chicago | |
10 | Key Tower | 1991 | 289 m | Cleveland |
Completed | Arch. Topped Out | Under Constr. | Proposed |
The building list and facts show buildings involving Magnusson Klemencic Associates, Skilling Ward Magnusson Barkshire, Skilling Ward Rogers Barkshire, Skilling, Helle, Christiansen, Robertson, W.H. Witt Company, Worthington & Skilling, Worthington, Skilling, Helle, & Jackson
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