The results of the International Highrise Award (IHA) have been decided: 'The Met', a high-rise apartment building in Bangkok, Thailand, has won the prize, worth EUR 50,000, for the world's most innovative high-rise. Wong Mun Summ, co-owner of the architecture firm WOHA in Singapore, accepted the symbolic prize statuette at an official ceremony in Frankfurt's Paulskirche. The award was presented by the Mayor of the City of Frankfurt/Main, Dr. h. c. Petra Roth and Dr. Matthias Danne, the member of the DekaBank Management Board responsible for real estate on 5 November 2010. Extremely efficient both ecologically and in economic terms, the jury expects the building "to prove ground-breaking on a global scale in the search for innovative local approaches to design." Burj Khalifa in Dubai by SOM, currently the tallest high-rise in the world, and one of the finalists for the IHA 2010, was honored with a special commendation for technological innovation.

The exhibition "BEST HIGHRISES – The International Highrise Award 2010," which, on account of conversion work at its own premises, Deutsches Architekturmuseum is staging from 6 November 2010 through 16 January 2011 in a neighboring museum, Museum für Angewandte Kunst Frankfurt, honors the prize-winner along with the other four finalists, and presents the broad spectrum of the total of 27 nominated projects.