How do you imagine the skyscrapers of the future? The future moves in the rhythm of sustainability, low energy consumption and ecology. eVolo Magazine has announced the best skyscraper designs for the 2022 Skyscraper Competition. The well-known American architecture magazine eVolo has been organizing this competition since 2006. Three winners and 20 honorable mentions, as selected by the jury from 427 submissions, “challenge the way we understand vertical architecture and its relationship with the natural and built environments.” Contestants were asked to consider technological progress, sustainability of systems, scarcity of natural resources, pollution, population growth, economic side, social issues and cultural issues of the contemporary world.
3 winning designs
First Place – Climate Control Skyscraper
Kim Gyeong Jeung, Min Yeong Gi, and Yu Sang Gu
South Korea
“The project investigates the use of a series of skyscrapers to modify weather conditions that would improve the global climate crisis and stop desertification, rising temperatures, and natural disasters.”
Second Place – Tsunami Park
Wang Jue, Zhang Qian, Zhang Changsheng, Li Muchun, and Xu Jing
China
“The project is designed as a man-made inhabited mangrove for the Tonga region to prevent tsunamis that would affect the Pacific Rim.”
Third Place – New Spring: Agro-ecological Skyscraper
Michał Spólnik and Marcin Kitala
Austria and Poland
“The proposal is envisioned as an aggregation of garden modules containing distinct flora and microorganisms that could be deployed to specific regions that would flourish with new life.”
Another 20 architectural designs
Beeswax Skyscraper
Adapting Obsolescence
Oasis-Æ2030
Meru
Sanctuary Above The Tomb
The City Chloroplast
Skyscraper Injects New Life To Tiankeng
Adobe Farm Skyscraper
Residential Flying Unit Nest Skyscraper
Skyscraper For Open Pit Mines
Air Purification Skyscraper
Hyper-Mask Skyscraper
Cure For Desertification Skyscraper
City Healer Skyscraper
Fung(S)i
Connecting Skyscrapers In Hong Kong Through Infrastructure
Urban Condenser
Tree Skyscraper In South Sudan
Urban Bypass Surgery
Regenerative Highrise
Credit: All images courtesy of eVolo Magazine
