The winners of eVolo’s 2010 Skyscraper Competition were announced today. After several years of organizing, this annual competition has become a renowned architectural prize around the world. The main idea of the contest is to examine the relationship between the skyscraper and the natural world, the skyscraper and the community, and the skyscraper and urban living. The competition asked to push our imagination to redefine the term skyscraper through the use of new materials, technology, aesthetics, programs, and spatial organizations. Globalization, environmental warming, flexibility, adaptability, and the digital revolution are just some of the multi-layered elements that were in the focal point.
First Place: Vertical Prison by Chow Khoon Toong, Ong Tien Yee, Beh Ssi Cze, Malaysia (project info)
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First Place: Vertical Prison by Chow Khoon Toong, Ong Tien Yee, Beh Ssi Cze, Malaysia
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First Place: Vertical Prison by Chow Khoon Toong, Ong Tien Yee, Beh Ssi Cze, Malaysia
Second Place: Water Purification Skyscraper in Jakarta by Rezza Rahdian, Erwin Setiawan, Ayu Diah Shanti, Leonardus Chrisnantyo, Indonesia (project info)
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Second Place: Water Purification Skyscraper in Jakarta by Rezza Rahdian, Erwin Setiawan, Ayu Diah Shanti, Leonardus Chrisnantyo, Indonesia
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Second Place: Water Purification Skyscraper in Jakarta by Rezza Rahdian, Erwin Setiawan, Ayu Diah Shanti, Leonardus Chrisnantyo, Indonesia
Third Place: Nested Skyscraper in Tokyo by Ryohei Koike, Jarod Poenisch, United States (project info)
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Third Place: Nested Skyscraper in Tokyo by Ryohei Koike, Jarod Poenisch, United States
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Third Place: Nested Skyscraper in Tokyo by Ryohei Koike, Jarod Poenisch, United States
Here’s a selection of Special Mentions we especially liked (for the complete list, click here):
Click above image to enlargeSpecial Mention: Hermit Mountains – Towers of Ancient Dreams by Hongjun Zhou, Lu Xiong, Australia / China / Japan (
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Click above image to enlargeSpecial Mention: Sky Table – A Social Implant by Ayrat Khusnutdinov, Russia (
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Click above image to enlargeSpecial Mention: Strait of Messina Skyscraper by Maurizio Pino, Filomena Francesca Pastore, Italy (
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Click above image to enlargeSpecial Mention: Manhattanism: New City Layer by Muchan Park, Luc Wilson, United Sates (
project info)
Click above image to enlargeSpecial Mention: Vertical Confluence – Skyscraper in Paris by Jiang Yuan, Xu Yang, France (
project info)
Click above image to enlargeSpecial Mention: Generic Box Skyscraper by Dae-ho Lee, Byung-hwa Kim, South Korea (
project info)
Click above image to enlargeSpecial Mention: Art of Building High – Skyscraper in Paris by ATELIER ZÜNDEL ET CRISTEA (Gregoire Zündel, Irina Cristea, Nicolas Souchko, Mario Russo), France (
project info)
Click above image to enlargeSpecial Mention: Vertical Street / City by Sergiy Prokof`yev, Arsenii Kuznetsov, Oleksandr Garashchenko, Ukraine (
project info)
Click above image to enlargeSpecial Mention: Freshwater Factory Skyscraper by Design Crew for Architecture (Nicolas Chausson, Gaël Desveaux, Jiao Yang Huang, Thomas Jullien), France (
project info)
Click above image to enlargeSpecial Mention: Compress: First Aid Deployable Skyscraper by Nikola Stojkovic, Rajan Garic, Serbia (
project info)
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