International High-Rise Award for 1 Bligh Sydney, 2012
The City of Frankfurt has bestowed the International High-Rise Award every two years since 2004. It was jointly initiated in 2003 by the City of Frankfurt, the German Museum of Architecture, and DekaBank. It has since been organized by the German Museum of Architecture in partnership with DekaBank. The honor is awarded to projects that combine exemplary sustainability, external shape, and internal spatial quality, as well as social aspects, to create commendable design. ingenhoven architects is the first German practice to receive the International High-Rise Award for the project at 1 Bligh in Sydney.