Award of Merit, Residential/Hospitality: Secon Nile Towers

The mixed-use development along the Nile River features two connected towers, each standing 23 stories tall, with additional below-ground-level stories housing a parking garage and shared mechanical and electrical rooms.

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Award of Merit, Office: 160 Front Street West

This 47-story office tower’s design was shaped by extensive environmental analysis. The building, with its tapered top and bottom, is angled parallel to the direction of the site’s prevailing winds to optimize wind resistance.

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Best Project, Residential/Hospitality: Bulgari Ocean Mansions

These villas on the northern shore of the United Arab Emirates’ Jumeirah Bay island were designed to incorporate green spaces, sustainable landscaping and eco-friendly materials—setting a new standard for how future developments can reduce impact on the island’s ecological health, according to the project team.

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Award of Merit, Renovation/Restoration: Sayyida Zainab Mosque

Cairo’s Sayyida Zainab Mosque holds great cultural significance in Egypt—which made the restoration of the building without compromising its architectural identity of great importance for the project team.

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Award of Merit, Sports/Entertainment: Seaworld Abu Dhabi

Located on Yas Island, the five-floor marine theme park is dedicated to environmental preservation. It features a One Ocean realm, with six distinct but interconnected areas showcasing different ecosystems, as well as the world’s largest multispecies marine life aquarium, which holds 68,000 animals from 1,800 different species.

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Best Project, Road/Highway: Kicking Horse Canyon Phase 4

A beautiful but treacherous stretch of two-lane highway in the eastern forests of British Columbia has been smoothed out thanks to innovative solutions for building four bridges, nine viaducts and seven earthwalls on steep slopes.

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