Posts Tagged ‘Skyscraper’

The Spherical Skyscraper by EQUIP XCL

by DD, June 17th, 2011, viewed 855 time(s)
Posted in Architecture

The EQUIP Xavier Claramunt is a multidisciplinary architectural practice founded in Barcelona in 1990. The firm develops proposals which range from cutlery to complex architectural structures, priding itself on working without preconceptions or preformed notions and ideas. Read More »

Spear Tower in Serbia

by DD, December 24th, 2010, viewed 1059 time(s)
Posted in Architecture

Spear tower is a five-star luxury hotel designed by architecture students Milica Stankovic and Vuk Djordjevic from Belgrade University in Serbia. Read More »

Blooming Skyscraper Collects Dew and Generates Energy

by DD, November 26th, 2010, viewed 1570 time(s)
Posted in Architecture, Green

Like a plant that opens its petals to collect dew, the Blooming Tower by Mekene Architecture responds to environmental changes with a kinetic facade that opens and closes throughout the day. Read More »

Bangaroo Sky Village

by DD, November 15th, 2010, viewed 1452 time(s)
Posted in Architecture

When you say the word skyscraper, do you always think of a tall rectangle? Is it freestanding? Is there one main entrance? Australian architecture student Josephine Turner takes issue with these, and other assumptions about what skyscrapers are, what they should be, and how they can function individually, within a system of other buildings and for the city as a whole. Read More »

A City Within a Skyscraper for Battery Park

by DD, November 14th, 2010, viewed 2643 time(s)
Posted in Architecture

Stuttgart, Germany architecture student Christian Hahn is dreaming of America with his “Use Arrangement” eVolo 2010 Skyscraper Competition entry, which envisions a lively tower for the tip of Manhattan near Battery Park. Read More »

Industrial City Skyscraper

by DD, August 14th, 2010, viewed 1188 time(s)
Posted in Architecture

Russian Architect Kitaev Artem Leonidovich shared with us his vision for a 21st century skyscraper that responds to a specific industrial area in Moscow. Read More »

Reinterpreting Zenobia

by DD, August 13th, 2010, viewed 786 time(s)
Posted in Architecture

This project designed by Alessandro Toni and Manuela Spera was created as a meeting point between architecture and literature encompassing and reinterpreting one of the most suggestive surreal images of the 1900’s Italo Calvino’s invisible city, Zenobia. Read More »

Water Purification Skyscraper in Jakarta

by DD, August 6th, 2010, viewed 2238 time(s)
Posted in Architecture, Green

The Ciliwung Recovery Program (CRP) is a project that aims to collect the garbage of the riverbank and purify its water through an ingenious system of mega-filters that operate in three different phases. Read More »

2011 Skyscraper Competition

by DD, August 4th, 2010, viewed 2199 time(s)
Posted in Architecture, Competitions

eVolo Magazine is pleased to invite students, architects, engineers, and designers from around the globe to take part in the 2011 Skyscraper Competition. Read More »

Bubble Skyscraper

by DD, May 7th, 2010, viewed 1750 time(s)
Posted in Architecture

The Bubble Skyscraper was designed by Iranian architects Farzad Mirshafiei, Amin Aghagholizade, Farzin Misami, and Peyman Aali. Read More »

Cricket Stadium on top of a Skyscraper in India

by DD, April 19th, 2010, viewed 3935 time(s)
Posted in Architecture

As India approaches the 63rd anniversary of its independence, it is emerging as a cricket powerhouse. The sport that was left behind by the British, over a hundred years ago, has ultimately been adopted, creating a recreational gift to the nation. The sport has political and cultural implications reaching far beyond the imperialist colonization which initially engendered it. In the ICCT tower we will challenge the very nature of the skyscraper by aggressively reinterpreting programmatic, scalar, and contextual norms. Read More »

Tower, City, Tower

by DD, March 27th, 2010, viewed 802 time(s)
Posted in Architecture, eVolo 2010

‘Tower | City | Tower’, a skyscraper project that seeks to restore the natural dimension of the city of Marseille while taking into account the constraints of its urban landscapes. Marseille is the second largest city of France where issues of urban sprawl has become increasingly evident. Read More »

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