Adrian Smith Honored with CTBUH Lifetime Achievement Award for Supertall Buildings

Adrian Smith, the senior Design Partner at Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture in Chicago, is well known for his tallest and most recognized skyscrapers building in the world’s. For this absolutely stunning projects and extraordinary contribution to the supertall building typology, Adrian Smith recently awarded with the 2011 winner of the Lynn S. Beedle Lifetime Achievement Award from the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat.

Smith is one of the world’s most prolific and celebrated designers of supertall towers. As of mid-2011, he has designed four of the world’s eleven tallest completed buildings: Dubai’s Burj Khalifa (No. 1), Nanjing’s Zifeng Tower at Nanjing Greenland Financial Center (No. 7), Chicago’s Trump International Hotel & Tower (No. 10) and Shanghai’s Jin Mao Tower (No. 11), all at his former firm, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. And here are some project of this amazing architect.

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