In pictures: eVolo's madcap skyscraper competition winners
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First place: Derek Perozzi's Polar Umbrella. This mushroom-shaped skyscraper would provide shade in order to allow polar icecaps to reform
Second place: Darius Maïkoff and Elodie Godo's Phobia Skyscraper is a mesh of prefab units embedded into a structure of recycled industrial material
Third place: Ting Xu and Yiming Chen's Light Park is a floating city to provide green areas to space-choked cities
Honorable mention: Symbiocity, A New Prison Typology by Khem Aikwanich, Nigel Westbrook. Prisons overlooking the city will inspire inmates to give up their lives of crime, is the idea
Honorable mention: Urban Earth Worm Skyscraper by Lee Seungsoo. Not just a clever name, this design is intended to cleanse the air and soil
Honorable mention: Water Re-Balance Skyscraper by Zhang Zhiyang, Liu Chunyao is gigantic rainwater harvesting and purification system
Honorable mention: Volcano Skyscraper by Jing Hao, Zhanou Zhang, Xingyue Chen, Jiangyue Han, Shuo Zhou. This design harvests geothermal energy from active volcanoes. Good luck getting home insurance
Honorable mention: Crater-Scraper by Xiaomia Xiao, Lixiang Miao, Xinmin Li, Minzhao Guo. A sunken city to harvest light and rainwater
Honorable mention: Repair Goaf by Liangpeng Chen, Yating Chen, Lida Huang, Gaoyan Wu, Lin Yuan. A city that occupies an abandoned coal mine
Honorable mention: PH Conditioner Skyscraper by Hao Tian, Huang Haiyang, Shi Jianwei. Yet more floating jellyfish, these aim to neutralize acidic pollutants in the atmosphere
Honorable mention: Sounscraper by Julien Bourgeois, Olivier Colliez, Savinien de Pizzol, Cédric Dounval, Romain Grouselle. The concept harvests sound energy from its surrounds.
Honorable mention: Stratosphere Network of Skyscrapers by Mingxuan Dong, Yuchen Xiang, Aiwen Xie, Xu Han. Skyscrapers that penetrate the stratosphere are connected at their pinnacles in a hexagonal grid to provide stability
Honorable mention: The 7th Continent by Park Sung-Hee, Na Hye Yeon. This excellently-named effort is a modular floating city designed to clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Honorable mention: Big Wood by Michael Charters is a wooden skyscraper based on recent research into the feasibility of tall wooden buildings. This one might not be all that crazy
Honorable mention: Promised Land Waterscraper by Chen Yao, Xiao Yunfeng, Li Xiaodi, Xie Rui, Yin Xiaoxiang. A self-sustaining contigency in the event of a dramatic rise in sea level
Honorable mention: Zero Skyscraper by Ekkaphon Puekpaiboon is a data-vault city from which to rebuild after the inevitable forthcoming apocalypse
Honorable mention: Sea-Ty by Shinypark, Liu Tang, Lyo Heng Liu. A floating bowl lets the sky into a sunken city
Honorable mention: In Charybdis Waterscarper by Nam Il Joe, Laura E. Lo, Mark T. Nicol is built from plastic scavenged from the ocean
Honorable mention: Nomad: Terraforming Mars, by Antonio Ares Sainz, Joaquin Rodriguez Nuñez, Konstantino Tousidonis Rial
Honorable mention: Moses by Milos Vlastic, Vuk Djordjevic, Milos Jovanovic, Darki Markovic; a distributed network of floating skyscrapers
Honorable mention: Aeroponic Vertical Farming by Jin Ho Kim. The city as a farm, designed to address humanity's growing dependency on rice
Honorable mention: Quantum Skyscraper by Ivan Maltsev, Artem Melnik. A crystalline, energy-producing research center
Honorable mention: The Scraper Collects and Burns the Pacific Garbage Patch by Jong Hyuk Lim, Seung Jun Park, Sung Wha Na, Jae Chung ko, Ho Young Yeo, Gyoeng Hwan Kim. Self-explanatory, I think
Honorable mention: Skinscape, Morphing Contiguous Skyscrapers by Woongyeun Park, Jaegeun Lim, Haejun Jung, Karam Kim. We're not entirely sure what's happening here, but it was inspired by the overgrowth of Banyan trees at Angkor Wat
Honorable mention: Ring of Mars by Mamon Alexander, Tyutyunnik Artem. A linear city that entirely surrounds the red planet.
Honorable mention: Sphera, 2150 Megacity by Santi Musmeci, Sebastiano Maccarrone. A spheroid built from the salvaged remains of abandoned cities
Honorable mention: Mist Tree in Atacama Desert by Yeonkyu Park, Kwon Han, Hyeyeon Kwon, Hojeong Lim. A moisture-harvesting scheme for the irrigation of the desert
Article Summary
eVolo Magazine has announced the winners of its 2013 speculative skyscraper design competition. Novelty, be it technical or aesthetic, is the order of the day, and while one shouldn't expect to see any of these designs crop up in their chosen city of residence at any point in the next 3,000 or so years, there is plenty of first rate eye-candy and a smattering of urban speculative to peruse. Prepare to suspend disbelief.
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