Antony Wood is executive director of CTBUH. He is responsible for the day-to-day running of the Council and steering in conjunction with the Board of Trustees, of which he is an ex-officio member. Based at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Antony is also a Studio Associate Professor in the College of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology, where he convenes various tall building design studios. Anthony can be reached at awood@ctbuh.org.
By all appearances, the small increase in the total number of tall-building completions from 2012 into 2013 is indicative of a return to the prevalent trend of increasing completions each year over the past decade. Perhaps 2012, with its small year-on-year drop in completions, was the last year to register the full effect of the 2008/2009 global financial crisis, and a small sigh of relief can be let out in the tall-building industry as we begin 2014. …