HI-TECH eco-friendly skyscrapers are not just the stuff of a sci-fi fantasy but could be just a few years away, as these award-winning designs show.
The winners of eVolo Magazine’s 2019 Skyscraper Competition have been announced which looks for visionary ideas and creative use of technology.
Marko Dragicevic won first prize for his Methanescraper, a vertical ‘city-district’ with recycling capabilitiesCover ImagesAirscraper, by Polish architects Klaudia Golaszewska and Marek Grodzicki took second place for their design which cleans the airCover ImagesThird place went to ‘Biosphere Skyscraper’ by Zijian Wan, Xiaozhi Qi, and Yueya Liu from the UK includes research facilitiesCover ImagesAn honourable mention went to The Floating Tower from a team of architects from BelarusCover ImagesThis Ka’ poy yepü Skyscraper design by Zöe Russián Moreno from Venezuela also got an honourable mentionCover ImagesThis design was for a Floating Egyptian City was from Chinese architects Tao Qiyang, Wang Kun, Chen Ruihua and Sun YunjuanCover ImagesThis entry from a South Korean team used snow and ice for their vision of the futureCover ImagesThe team from the BKV Group came up with a ‘Vertical Sustainable City’Cover ImagesDattner Architects created ‘Carbon Copy Skyscraper’Cover ImagesHonglin Li from the US dubbed their design ‘Filtration Skyscraper’Cover Images
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