Sri Lanka’s Altair won the ‘Best Condo Architectural Design’ Award at the 2018 Asia Real Estate Summit (ARES) hosted by PropertyGuru Asia in Bangkok, Thailand.Altair was honoured at PropertyGuru’s ‘Best of the Best’ awards, at which individual winners selected at country award events throughout the year, were contenders.
Markets from Sri Lanka to China competed at the grand final of the 13-year-old Asia Property Awards, attended by over 500 guests, with developers from Japan and Australia making their debut at the ceremony. The countries that competed for awards were Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, China, Hong Kong, Macau, Mongolia, Australia, Japan, Philippines, Myanmar and Cambodia.
“We are justifiably elated at winning this award, which is a tribute to the architectural genius of Moshe Safdie and the vision and courage of the promoters of the project, who had confidence, not only in their ability to build Altair, but also in the market’s potential to do justice to such a remarkable edifice,” Moraes said. “The word icon is sadly overused today, but by winning this award we have emphatically shown why Altair richly deserves that adjective.”
Managing Director, Asia Property Awards and Property Report of PropertyGuru, Terry Blackburn said, “Today, Asia has the fastest growing economies and most exciting real estate markets in the world, and the majority of award winners are Asian developers selling to Asian buyers and are helping millions achieve the dream of home ownership.”
The building comprises of two tower blocks, a 63-storey sloping tower which leans in to a taller, 68-storey vertical tower.