The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) has revealed the winners of its 2025 Award of Excellence competition.

In categories such as Best Tall Building, Innovation and Urban Habitat, this year’s winners emphasize reuse, low-carbon materials, equitable housing and integrated infrastructure. Submitting companies were also asked to share data on the carbon and material usage in their projects—part of the CTBUH 2025 Awards Carbon Pilot Program, which attempts to consolidate embodied carbon data from across the globe and serve as a benchmark for sustainable development practices. Several projects introduce hybrid programmatic models, blurring the line between public and private realms and prioritizing circularity from the outset.

The Canadian winners of this year’s awards are:

• T3 Bayside in Toronto
• Alberni by Kengo Kuma in Vancouver
• Ontario Court of Justice
• TD Terrace in Toronto
• CIBC Square

Other notable winners are the Lawrence East Transit-Oriented Community (TOC), One Bloor West, Cast Steel Solution for CIBC Tower II, Silva: Next-generation Mass Timber Urbanism, and Scotiabank North Flagship.

Spanning 20 countries and more than 20 categories, this year’s winners exemplify creative and technical leadership in sustainable vertical urbanism.