Melbourne architectural firm, Denton Corker Marshall, has bagged the global design prize under the Tall Buildings category at the 2011 MIPIM Architectural Review Future Projects Awards for its complex in Dubai.

The awards recognizes the design merits of unbuilt or incomplete projects and will be presented next March at MIPIM in Cannes,France. DCM's design called the Cluster Complex proposes a vertical street to be established for Dubai's Business Bay district.

"The Cluster Complex was designed to provide Dubai’s globally mobile and largely expatriate creative professionals with a home close to work and recreation, with easy transition from one to the other, and back again. This demands an environment as complex and diverse as any city," said DCM Director Peter Williams.

The firm is designing another project in Asia. Singapore's Asia Square will be a mixed-use project for commercial and retail uses that also integrates a five-star business hotel, a first in the Marina Bay area. The design will have a Tower 1 with 43 storeys comprising of 38 floors of Grade A office space. Along with it there is also the Asia Square Tower 2 that will involve 26 levels of Grade A office space that will also include a high-end Westin hotel starting from level 32.

DCM was established in Melbourne in 1972 with practices in London and Jakarta.

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