Events
The CTBUH also hosts annual conferences and a World Congress every three to five years. The most recent World Congress was held in Dubai between 3 and 5 March 2008 and was attended by delegates from 43 countries. The next World Congress will be held in Shanghai between 19 and 21 September 2012.
The CTBUH also bestows Tall Building Awards each year, with four regional awards to the Americas, Europe, Africa and the Middle East, and Asia and Australasia. Among these four regional awards, one is given the "Best Tall Building Award Overall." There are also two lifetime achievement awards. Starting in 2010, these awards are presented at a symposium and dinner held on the Illinois Institute of Technology's campus. In 2012 the CTBUH added two new awards for Innovation and Performance.
Read more about this topic: Council On Tall Buildings And Urban Habitat
Famous quotes containing the word events:
“All strange and terrible events are welcome,
But comforts we despise.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“We have defined a story as a narrative of events arranged in their time-sequence. A plot is also a narrative of events, the emphasis falling on causality. “The king died and then the queen died” is a story. “The king died, and then the queen died of grief” is a plot. The time sequence is preserved, but the sense of causality overshadows it.”
—E.M. (Edward Morgan)
“At all events there is in Brooklyn
something that makes me feel at home.”
—Marianne Moore (1887–1972)