Chicago-based firm Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture recently announced that it has won an international competition to design Wuhan Greenland Center, which at 606 meters (1,988 feet) will likely be China’s third-tallest building, and the fourth tallest in the world, when completed in about five years.…

Check out this new animated film, Plan Of The City, conceived and directed by Joshua Frankel, featuring flying skyscrapers from New York and Shanghai, remixed cities, the Martian landscape and a chamber ensemble. The film is, in part, a love letter to architecture, urban planing, and impossible…

Young Egyptian practice Mekano Studio has sent us its entry to the 2011 eVolo Skyscraper Design Competition "Seeds Of Life" which won the team an Honorable Mention. The concept confronts the problem of garbage management in the Egyptian capital of Cairo and the consequences of such a threat. The team…

eVolo Magazine just announced the 2011 Winners of its annual Skyscraper Design Competition. Established in 2006, the annual Skyscraper Competition recognizes outstanding ideas that redefine skyscraper design through the use of new technologies, materials, programs, aesthetics, and spatial organizations, along with studies on globalization, flexibility, adaptability,…

Insulation specialist Saint-Gobain Isover recently selected eight projects to be shortlisted for the UK final of the Multi-Comfort House Competition. 

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) just announced that the 2011 AIA Twenty-Five Year Award goes to the John Hancock Tower in Boston, MA, designed by Pei Cobb Freed & Partners. Lead designers of this office tower completed in 1976 were Henry…

The Taiwan Conceptual Tower International Competition continues to stir up massive excitement, so we're very happy to also publish the 2nd prize-winning entry today: "The Tower of Droplets" by Sir Peter Cook and Gavin Robotham's London-based Cook Robotham Architecture Bureau. From a field of 237 entries…

In the previous post, we published tower concept #1 "Tower of Power" that Amsterdam-based NL Architects recently submitted to the Taiwan Conceptual Tower International Competition. In this post, we're having a closer look at entry #2 "Tower of Change". As NL Architects team member Kamiel Klaasse…

Dutch practice NL Architects has shared with us not only one but two tower concepts they recently submitted to the Taiwan Conceptual Tower International Competition. In this article, we're presenting entry #1: "Tower of Power" (click here for entry #2 "Tower of Change"). The design…

The Shanghai office of international architecture firm Broadway Malyan has sent us their competition entry "3x3x3 Tower" for the Taiwan Conceptual Tower International Competition. The entry didn't make it into the final round of winners, but we're happy to share it with you.