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Europe is looking upwards. The Architecture Award Emporis Skyscraper Award annually awards the best completed in the previous year mega-skyscrapers - and five of the top ten are here.

Hamburg - The 306 meters high luxury skyscrapers "The Shard" in London's West Europe's tallest building. Now him an expert jury has elected the greatest mega-skyscraper. Designed by Renzo Piano Building is the winner of this year's Emporis Skyscraper Award, which gives the building information providers annually. The distinction is given the best completed in the previous year, more than 100 meters high skyscraper - this year were more than 300 to choose from.

"The construction of the Shard was complicated by the particularly narrow construction site and therefore required an innovative building design more impressive is the result:. A skyscraper with instant recognition value, which is already being touted as a new London landmark", the jury was enthusiastic about the shard-shaped seemingly construction.

Ironically, the original home of the sky aspiring towers is not represented this time in the top ten. Not one of the award-winning buildings is in North America.For Europe comes out great: In 2nd place we find the Wiener DC Tower 1 by Dominique Perrault Architecture. The 250 meter-high skyscraper convinced inter alia, by a bold, rugged exterior and its good ecological balance - including the tower has photovoltaic systems and e-service stations. The third place was occupied a draft of last year's winner MAD: The Sheraton Huzhou Hot Spring Resort is a 102 meter tall hotel on the Taihu Lake, which is shaped like a giant ring.

Robert AM Stern Architects

# 10: Every year, gives the building information provider Emporis Skyscraper Award for the best skyscraper completed in the previous year. On the tenth place in the ranking is a glittering Frenchman: The Tour Carpe Diem, the Robert AM Stern, SRA Architectes, built in Courbevoie - with 22 floors at an impressive 123 meters high.

Wayne Hopkins

No. 9: A lively facade features the AZ Tower in the Czech city of Brno. The 111 meter high building has 30 floors and was planned by Architektonická kancelár Burian-Krivinka.

Pontiac Land Group

8th place: homeware in portrait mode - in Singapore is the Ardmore Residence by UNStudio, Architects 61 projects with 36 floors 136 feet into the air.

Mercury Development

7th place: Looks as though this tower a telescoping function for pushing together - ie the spectacular Mercury City Tower in Moscow, which was planned by F. Williams, GL Sirota and MM Posokhin and on huge 339 meters has 75 floors.

HOK

6th place: One flame is modeled on this skyscraper in Baku, Azerbaijan. Designed by HOK, extend the Flame Towers 182 meters into the sky and have 39 floors.

Simon Wood

5th place:Green oases in the vertical, this building - the One Central Park in Sydney, Australia. It is 117 meters high, has 34 floors and was designed by Ateliers Jean Nouvel and PTW Architects.

Tim Griffith

Seat 4: Always good for superlatives are the Arab Emirates. The Cayan Tower stands in Dubai and is 307 meters high - he has 73 floors, it was designed by SOM, Khatib & Alami.

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3rd place: A ring of luxury: The Sheraton Huzhou Hot Spring Resort resides in the 102-meter high round tower. 27 floors, the building, it was designed by MAD, Shanghai Xian Dai Architectural Design.

Michael Nagl

2nd place: A bold construction project in the good old Vienna: The DC Tower 1 measures an impressive 250 meters, has 60 floors and was designed by Dominique Perrault and Hoffmann-Janz.

Eric Smerling

# 10: Luxurious It could not: The prestigious project, the Shard in London is 306 meters high, has 73 floors and was designed by Renzo Piano and Adamson Associates.

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