Article: REACH FOR THE SKIES.(Jean Nouvel wins the 2006 International Highrise Award for his Torre Agbar Tower in Barcelona.)(Anna Puyuelo, Layetana Developments also get prize)

Latest developments in high-rise at Frankfurt's DAM, while Jean Nouvel scoops a gong for his Barcelona tower.

In Frankfurt's Paulskirche, to the strains of 'Surrogate Cities' (composed in 1994 by Heiner Goebbels), Jean Nouvel was presented with the 2006 International Highrise Award for his Torre Agbar Tower in Barcelona. This unique international prize, worth [euro]50 000, is financed by the DekaBank and staged by the City of Frankfurt. Inaugurated in 2002, this is only the second time it has been awarded. Kohn Pedersen Fox were the first to be honoured in 2004 for De Hoftoren, their Netherlands Ministry building in The Hague. The aim is to reward only the most ...

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