Tall and Green: Typology for a Sustainable Urban Future

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Antony Wood

CTBUH Executive Director

Antony Wood is Executive Director of the CTBUH, responsible for the day-to-day running of the Council and steering in conjunction with the Chairman and the executive committee. His field of specialism is the design, and in particular the sustainable design, of tall buildings.

Based at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Antony is also a Visiting Associate Professor in the College of Architecture at IIT. Prior to becoming an academic at the University of Nottingham, UK in 2001, and IIT in 2006, he worked in architectural practice in Hong Kong, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur and Jakarta. Tall Buildings / large projects he has been involved in these countries include the £120 million, 11 No. mixed office / residential tower project of SV City, Bangkok (completed 1995), the £70 million 4 No. 44-storey condominia project of Kuningan Persada, Jakarta (1997) and the prestigious £200 million Kuala Lumpur Central International Railway Terminal, Malaysia (completed 2001).

He is editor of the CTBUH special annual edition of the John Wiley & Sons published Journal: ‘The Structural design of Tall and Special Buildings’ and co-chair of the CTBUH Tall Buildings and Sustainability working group. Antony is also founder of the Tall Buildings Teaching and Research Group, based between the University of Nottingham, UK and the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago. The educational and research output of this group can be found at www.tallbuildingstarg.com

His published Research papers in the field of Tall Buildings include:

Mixed-Use High Rise in the UK: An Urban Renaissance (2005),
The Shortfall of Tall: The rise of a High Rise Environmental Consciousness (2005),
Bridging the Gap: An analysis of proposed evacuation links at height in the World Trade Centre design competition entries (2005),
New Paradigms in High Rise Design (2004),
Immediate action in providing fire safety in cities with dense highrise buildings; The Possibility of Incorporating Skybridges (2004), and
Pavements in the Sky: The use of the Skybridge in Tall Buildings (2003)

In addition to the research papers listed above, he has presented papers on numerous tall buildings conferences and seminars, including:

Demystifying Sustainability in the Context of Tall (2006) at the London conference: “Talking Tall 2”,
Tall Buildings – a 360 degree view (2006) at the BCO (British Council for Offices) Annual Conference: “Going Green” in Dublin.
CTBUH World Congress – Renewing the Urban Landscape, New York, October 2005,
Culture and Personality: the right place and face for Tall Buildings (2005) at the Manchester symposium: "Talking Tall",
the ‘Asian Skyscraper’ at the 2005 Asia Design Forum International Session in Kuala Lumpur.
CTBUH International Conference: Tall Buildings in Historical Cities – Culture & Technology for Sustainable Cities, Seoul, October 2004,
CIB / CTBUH International Conference on Tall Buildings, Kuala Lumpur, October 2003

He is working on research projects in conjunction with Arup, the University of Greenwich Fire Safety Engineering Group and the Hong Kong Polytechnic University Department of Building Services Engineering. He is also Supervisor for the 3-year PhD studentship Tall Building Technologies. He is currently writing two books, entitled ’Pavements in the Sky: The Use of the Skybridge in Tall Buildings’ and ‘The History of the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat’.