eVolo Honors Buoyant Skyscraper Contest Winners

First Prize: Derek Pirozzi's Polar Umbrella seeks to save and rebuild the melting ice caps. Image via eVolo Magazine.

The three winning design entries for 2013 have a distinctly lighter-than-air feel, but they were designed to help ameliorate some weighty environmental issues. Read more →

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Moon Skyscraper Concept: Man As Termite

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An eVolo Skyscraper Competition design takes us to the moon to reexamine traditional constraints on the logic of building. Read more →

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Rhizome Towers: Refuge On An Overheated Planet

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One group of designers turns the eVolo Skyscaper Competition upside down, imagining a post-climate change future that takes us underground. Read more →

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Flat Tower Green Building Concept The Un-Skycraper

Flat Tower Design

What would happen if, instead of building thousands of feet up into the sky, we developed a smarter design that allowed us to retain our connection to the natural world? Read more →

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Runway In The Sky Lands Planes Downtown

GreenGru Airportscraper

A Greek designer's honorable mention entry in the eVolo Skyscraper Competition makes getting to the airport easy for city dwellers. Read more →

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City On Water Floated As Sustainable Refuge

Noah's Ark

From eVolo’s Skyscraper Competition comes a floating city designed to serve as a refuge for survivors of some unimaginable apocalypse of nature or final war. Read more →

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Earth-Shaped City Adapts To Nature’s Smart Design

Mountain City Design

Fear of losing our connection with nature compelled Swiss designer Charly Duchosal to imagine a city designed to adapt to nature, rather than forcing things to be the other way around. Read more →

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Himalayan Water Towers To Solve Global Water Crisis?

Himalaya Water Tower

Can this space-age water tower repurpose melting glaciers into fresh drinking water for the next generation? It is an interesting concept idea, if nothing else. Read more →

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Floating City Rises Above It All To Green Future

Heaven and Earth Floating City

A sort of giant hovercraft, the Heaven and Earth Floating City design imagines our future above Earth by using magnetic levitation technology. Read more →

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Tower In A Dam Re-Designs Hoover

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The Tower in a Dam design re-imagines viewing facilities at the Hoover Dam to include a gallery/aquarium in a tower suspended above the dam's 700 foot drop. Read more →

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