Each month the CTBUH spotlights a short video featuring leaders in the tall building industry addressing key questions related to the field of tall building construction. Latest question: What Techniques Will Define the Next Generation of Tall Buildings?

Harpa, the Reykjavik Concert Hall and Conference Centre in Iceland, is the winner of the 2013 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture - Mies van der Rohe Award. The award ceremony will take place on 7 June 2013.

To mark twenty years since the completion of the Carré d’Art, its architects Sir Norman Foster has been invited to curate a special exhibition to celebrate this anniversary. The exhibition runs from 3 May - 15 Sept. 2013 at Carré d'Art, Nîmes Museum of Contemporary Art, France.

The 2013 CTBUH International Conference will take place from 11 - 13 June 2013, in London/UK. The Conference will gather the leading tall building owners, developers, contractors and architects to answer: Is Europe correct in taking its cities skywards? What about the historical context?

The IAAC GSS aims to generate a network based on distributed knowledge and collective actions in order to address the challenges and opportunities of our urban environments. The Educational Program - Productive City 2013 - is offered in 12 locations worldwide in July 2013.

"The Leaf Interior Design Award measures the best of sustainable design from around the world. This award creates an industry legacy", states Jury Chair Vanessa Brady. Deadline for entries is on 10 June 2013.

The aim is to show how creatively we can make cities fun places with opportunities for interaction and play. Encourage sustainable design in all aspects of the proposal! Exciting new ways to get people to interact with the city on a different level is the goal. End of Submission is 29 July 2013.

In the light of increasing environmental awareness, timber emerged at the forefront of material investigations in architecture over the past decades. From 1 October - 2 October 2013 a symposium will be held at the ANCB, The Metropolitan Laboratory, in Berlin/Germany.

Carrières du Hainaut together with Archi-Europe are launching the first edition of the Blue Stone Awards, a competition rewarding best architectural projects highlighting the use of blue stone in many fields/applications. End of submission is 9 September 2013.

Swiss-Belhotel International, one of Asia’s leading mid-scale hotel operators, is returning to Arabian Travel Market (ATM) this May with an update on the group's ambitious expansion plans for the Middle East, and information on the trio of new hotels currently under development in the region.

The International Geothermal Industrial Fair is being held for the first time from 12 - 14 November 2013, in Essen/Germany. It parallels the German Geothermal Congress, expecting 150 specialized papers, and some 100 exhibitiors throughout the underground engineering and power plant sectors.