Skyscrapers of the future: the best projects. Skyscrapers of the future: the best projects (16 photos)

Established in 2006, the annual competition " Best Skyscraper”is one of the most prestigious awards in the world for high-rise architecture. The idea of the competition is to recognize outstanding ideas that consider the design of a skyscraper through the introduction of new technologies and methods to solve economic, social and cultural issues modern city given the deficit natural resources and infrastructure, population growth, pollution and unplanned urbanization. The purpose of the competition is to explore the relationship between the skyscraper and the natural world, the skyscraper and the community, and the skyscraper and the city.

First place - skyscraper LO2P

Conceived as a giant turbine, the LO2P skyscraper will be located in New Delhi, one of the most polluted cities in the world, due to exponential growth in population and cars. The idea of this skyscraper is to recycle old cars and use them as building material for a new structure. The building is designed as giant lungs that will purify New Delhi's air through a series of large-scale greenhouses that serve as filters to absorb airborne particles. processed heat and carbon dioxide will be used to grow plants that produce biofuels.

Skyscraper LO2P

Runner-up - Flat Tower

Flat Tower is a new high density typology that deviates from the traditional skyscraper. The building is based on a dome structure medium height, which covers a large area while maintaining its beauty and previous function. The dome is perforated like cages with skylights that provide a direct sunlight to the interior space. Big square The surface of the dome is designed to collect rainwater and solar energy. Residential and office premises are planned on the upper floors, while retail and entertainment infrastructures are planned on the lower floors. automated transport system will connect all parts of the building. The project can be used in any medium and large city, although it was designed for the old industrial area of the city of Rennes in France.

Third place - Re-imagining the hoover dam

The current amenities of the world-famous Hoover Dam in the United States consist of observation deck, bridge and gallery scattered on both sides of the dam. This project aims to rebuild this structure by merging them into a single vertical super structure with the addition of a vertical aquarium and gallery.

Re-imagining the hoover dam

NeoTax

NeoTax is a three-dimensional network infrastructure formed into a horizontal and vertical plane. The network is based on a system of modules, which can be considered as separate blocks or districts, and suggests the possibility of adding new modules.

NeoTax

PoroCity

PoroCity is a project for the reorganization and rehabilitation of Dharavi, Mumbai, India, one of the largest slums in the world. The basis of the design is Sierpinski's rectangular pyramid. The structure consists of blocks divided into 3x9 meters, forming residential compartments with terraces, where enterprises, offices, educational institutions, trading and medical centers. It will be possible to move around on elevators, escalators and funiculars moving in different planes.

Tower for the Dead - Tower of the Dead

Given the overcrowding and lack of land, this project involves the construction of an underground vertical cemetery for Mexico City, where members of the deceased's family can descend to pay their respects.

Tower for the Dead

Fish Tower

The Fish Tower is the prototype of a vertical fish farm that could be 30 times more efficient than traditional fish farms. It is assumed that the fish market will be located at the lower level. Fish farms, which are developed on the basis of research and analysis of the habitation of specific fish species, will be located at the middle levels. And on the upper levels are research laboratories where new technologies will be tested to achieve the productivity of 600 traditional fish farms on 20 levels.

Fish Tower

Sport Tower - Sports tower

This project proposes a vertical complex that integrates various sports facilities in one place.

Sport Tower

RE:pH-Coastscraper

The concept of a skyscraper on the coast is based on reducing the acidity of the oceans by adding fossilized coccolithophores (white chalk) to the water. The best place for the project it is South East England with a huge geological strip of white chalk stretching from the outskirts of London to the White Cliffs of Dover.

RE:pH-Coastscraper

Iceberg Autonomy

Iceberg Autonomy is a "seascraper", a drifting enclave containing oil reservoirs and separators and engaged in offshore mining.

Iceberg Autonomy

Tourist City Skyscraper

The Tourist City is a group of mega-structures in Cancun, Mexico that will eliminate unplanned urbanization and allow the natural landscape to be restored.

Tourist City Skyscraper

Rhizome Tower

The Rhizome Tower - thousands of underground plateaus involves the creation underground city. This is the answer to drastic changes climate and other environmental disasters. The main idea is to develop an "earth scraper" that uses underground and surface resources. , creating a new typology of life. The project is divided into four different levels organized around a central core. The first layer is above the surface, where agricultural farms, food production and places for recreation and entertainment will be located. The entire façade is covered with a photocell to collect solar energy, and individual sections are also equipped with wind turbines. The second layer, at about 60 levels, is the residential area, with a range of different living quarters to match the size of the family. The third and fourth layers are used as service areas and offices, along with the deep part project dedicated to the study and collection geothermal energy.

Rhizome Tower

Borough no. 6

District number 6 - New York. Sitting above the existing city canvas, this building occupies the space between 22nd and 14th streets and 6th and 7th avenues in New York City. The size of the structure creates interdependence and allows for the formation of a new community within an already dense development. Woven into the fabric of residential buildings, large office towers provide workplace for the inhabitants of the structure. These towers are deployed to create a public park high above the city, for the population's access to nature.

Borough no. 6

Singapore's Waterfront

The proposed building is located on the Singapore waterfront and will serve as an addition to the existing financial districts. Considering Singapore's climate and scarcity water resources, design emphasis is placed on creating strategies for the use of natural ventilation, rainwater and sunlight. The tower is tilted 20 degrees towards the embankment. In addition, the project aims to create perfect home with its own garden close proximity from downtown Singapore. The base, which resembles an area with rich vegetation, forms two outdoor pools, squares, and sports facilities.

Singapore's Waterfront

Moonscraper

A lunar skyscraper is planned to be built on the outskirts of Shackleton Crater at the Moon's South Pole.

Moonscraper

Floating Olympic Complex

The main idea behind the Wandering Olympic Complex is to create vertical inverted skyscrapers that will serve as hosts for the games, and are further transformed into a floating city with residences, recreation areas, offices and other infrastructures. This project is supposed to be implemented at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

Floating Olympic Complex

Established in 2006, the annual Best Skyscraper competition is one of the world's most prestigious awards for high-rise architecture. The idea of the competition is to recognize outstanding ideas that consider skyscraper design through the introduction of new technologies and methods for solving the economic, social and cultural problems of the modern city, taking into account the scarcity of natural resources and infrastructure, population growth, pollution and unplanned urbanization. The purpose of the competition is to explore the relationship between the skyscraper and the natural world, the skyscraper and the community, and the skyscraper and the city.

First place - skyscraper LO2P

Conceived as a giant turbine, the LO2P skyscraper will be located in New Delhi, one of the most polluted cities in the world, due to exponential growth in population and cars. The idea of this skyscraper is to recycle old cars and use them as building material for a new structure. The building is designed as giant lungs that will purify New Delhi's air through a series of large-scale greenhouses that serve as filters to absorb airborne particles. The processed heat and carbon dioxide will be used to grow plants that produce biofuels.

Skyscraper LO2P

Second place - Flat Tower

Flat Tower is a new high-density typology that deviates from the traditional skyscraper. The building is based on a mid-height dome structure that covers a large area while maintaining its beauty and previous function. The dome is perforated like cages with skylights that provide direct sunlight to the interior. The dome's large surface area is designed to collect rainwater and solar energy. Residential and office premises are planned on the upper floors, while retail and entertainment infrastructures are planned on the lower floors. An automated transport system will connect all parts of the building. The project can be used in any medium and large city, although it was designed for the old industrial area of the city of Rennes in France.

Third place - Re-imagining the hoover dam

The current amenities of the world-famous Hoover Dam in the United States consist of an observation deck, bridge, and gallery dotted on either side of the dam. This project aims to rebuild this structure by merging them into a single vertical super structure with the addition of a vertical aquarium and gallery.

Re-imagining the hoover dam

NeoTax

NeoTax

PoroCity

PoroCity is a project for the reorganization and rehabilitation of Dharavi, Mumbai, India, one of the largest slums in the world. The basis of the design is Sierpinski's rectangular pyramid. The structure consists of blocks divided by 3x9 meters, forming residential compartments with terraces, which will also house businesses, offices, educational institutions, shopping and medical centers. It will be possible to move around on elevators, escalators and funiculars moving in different planes.

Tower for the Dead - Tower of the Dead

Tower for the Dead

Fish Tower

Fish Tower

Sport Tower

This project proposes a vertical complex that integrates various sports facilities in one place.

Sport Tower

RE:pH-Coastscraper

The concept of a skyscraper on the coast is based on reducing the acidity of the oceans by adding fossilized coccolithophores (white chalk) to the water. The best location for the project is South East England with a huge geological strip of white chalk stretching from the outskirts of London to the White Cliffs of Dover.

RE:pH-Coastscraper

Iceberg Autonomy

Iceberg Autonomy is a "seascraper", a drifting enclave containing oil reservoirs and separators and engaged in offshore mining.

Iceberg Autonomy

Tourist City Skyscraper

The Tourist City is a group of mega-structures in Cancun, Mexico that will eliminate unplanned urbanization and allow the natural landscape to be restored.

Tourist City Skyscraper

Rhizome Tower

Root Tower - thousands of underground plateaus suggests the creation of an underground city. This is a response to abrupt climate change and other environmental disasters. The main idea is to develop an "earth scraper" that uses underground and surface resources. , creating a new typology of life. The project is divided into four different levels organized around a central core. The first layer is above the surface, where agricultural farms, food production and places for recreation and entertainment will be located. The entire façade is covered with a photocell to collect solar energy, and individual sections are also equipped with wind turbines. The second layer, at about 60 levels, is the residential area, with a range of different living quarters to match the size of the family. The third and fourth layers are used as service areas and offices, along with the deepest part of the project dedicated to exploring and harvesting geothermal energy.

Rhizome Tower

Borough no. 6

District number 6 - New York. Sitting above the existing city canvas, this building occupies the space between 22nd and 14th streets and 6th and 7th avenues in New York City. The size of the structure creates interdependence and allows for the formation of a new community within an already dense development. Woven into the fabric of residential buildings, large office towers provide work space for the structure's residents. These towers are deployed to create a public park high above the city, for the population's access to nature.

Borough no. 6

Singapore's Waterfront

The proposed building is located on the Singapore waterfront and will serve as an addition to the existing financial districts. Considering Singapore's climate and its scarcity of water resources, the design emphasis is on creating strategies for using natural ventilation, rainwater and sunlight. The tower is tilted 20 degrees towards the embankment. In addition, the project aims to create an ideal home with its own garden, in close proximity to the center of Singapore. The base, which resembles an area with rich vegetation, forms two outdoor pools, squares, and sports facilities.

Singapore's Waterfront

Moonscraper

A lunar skyscraper is planned to be built on the outskirts of Shackleton Crater at the Moon's South Pole.

Moonscraper

Floating Olympic Complex

The main idea of the Wandering Olympic Complex is the creation of vertical inverted skyscrapers that will serve as the host during the games, and further transformed into a floating city with residential buildings, recreation areas, offices and other infrastructures. This project is supposed to be implemented at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

Floating Olympic Complex

The 2011 Skyscraper Competition is an attempt to promote the infrastructure vision of our future by architects who have put a lot of effort and soul into their projects. The projects received awards according to the following criteria: the use of new technologies, materials, programs; aesthetics and spatial organization; taking into account globalization and the digital revolution; adaptability and adaptability. The event was organized by eVolo Magazine. The competition jury singled out among the participants those projects in which architectural and natural features.

1st Place: LO2P, Delhi Recycling Center (Atelier CMJNb Julien Combs, Gael Brule)
The LO2P skyscraper was designed specifically for New Delhi, the capital of India, characterized by high levels of pollution. This structure, reminiscent of the London Eye Ferris wheel, is built from building material obtained from the recycling of old cars. Large-scale greenhouses of this design will serve as a kind of air filters. Also, LO2P is equipped with a filter system that absorbs suspended particles from the air, and the waste heat and carbon dioxide from the processing center are used to grow plants, from which, in turn, biofuel is made.

2. Runner-up: Flat Tower (Johann Meskam, Paul-Erik Schirr-Bonnans, Xavier Schirr-Bonnans)
The Flat Tower is a high-density, dome-shaped building with through skylights. The large dome surface is ideal for collecting solar energy and rainwater. On the lower level of the building there are places for recreation and entertainment, offices and living quarters - in the upper compartments. Automated transport system provides communication between compartments various shapes. This project was developed specifically for the industrial area of the French city of Rennes, but can also be adapted to any other area.

3rd Place: New Hoover Dam (Wuhe-Shen Chua)
Today you can visit the Hoover Dam and enjoy the beauty from the observation deck, bridge or gallery, one bad luck: all these places are located quite far from each other. The designer of this project combines all the main points of the dam in one structure, and also equips it with a vertical aquarium that will finally win the hearts of tourists.

honorary awards also received the following projects:
NoeTax: 3D Urban Network (Studio DMTW, Marc Antoine Demin, René Lierschaft and Anna-Maria Widekind)
This is a project of a three-dimensional urban network, consisting of vertical and horizontal compartments. The building is built on a modular system, where each module represents a separate block or district.

PoroCity: Mumbai Rehab (Khushalani Associates: Rajiv Khushalani, Thomas Kariat, Mihir Sangani)
Dharavi is one of the largest slum areas in the world. This project is an attempt to rehabilitate the area. The design is based on Sierpinski's rectangular pyramid. The structure is subdivided into blocks measuring 3 x 9m, forming sections of public use with terraces overlooking north side, infrastructure (hospitals, supermarkets, etc.), educational institutions, factories and offices. Instead of cars, elevators, movable sidewalks, escalators and funiculars moving in vertical, horizontal and diagonal planes are used here as means of transportation.

Tower of the Dead (Lopez Balan, Elsa Mendoza Andres, Moise Adrian and Hernandez Garcia)
This is an underground vertical cemetery project for Mexico City.

Fish Tower (Hsing-O Chang)
This project is a prototype of a vertical fish farm, the efficiency of which can exceed that of traditional farms by 30 times. There is also a market and visitor center on the ground floor of this building. Farms are designed taking into account the characteristics of habitats and spawning of each species of fish. There is also a research section here.

Sports Tower (Sergei and Olga Prokofiev)
The sports tower is a vertical complex that combines all the variety of sports facilities.

RE:pH - skyscraper on the coast (Gary Kellet)
The design of this skyscraper is based on the idea of reducing the level of acidity ocean waters by introducing fossilized coccolithophores into the water. The ideal location for this project is the southeast coast of England, where vast deposits of coccolithophores (white chalk) are located, stretching from the outskirts of London to the White Cliffs of Dover.

Iceberg Autonomy: Oil Refining Center (Akram Falimi)
Iceberg autonomy is an enclave, a "seascraper" containing oil collectors and separators. This is a kind of floating water world.

Tourist City (Francisco Villada, Hechan Park, Water Dons, Sandra Fleischmann)
This project is a group of megastructures created to combat the surge in urbanization in the city of Cancun (Mexico).

Root Tower: Thousand Underground Plateaus (Enrico Tognoni, Federico Tinti, David Mariani)
The Root Tower is a fantastic underground city! In fact, it is an "earthscraper", functioning through the use of underground and surface resources. Implementation of the idea of creating an autonomous underground city can allow you to grow an entire underground nation! General structure structure is divided into 4 layers surrounding central core. The first layer is located on the surface of the building and includes places for recreation and entertainment, as well as food warehouses, agricultural fields, farms and greenhouses. The outer shell of the building is covered with photovoltaic cells that collect solar energy. Wind turbines are located in separate sections. The second layer has about 60 residential levels, here is a variety of residential areas for different kind and family size. The third and fourth layers contain offices, as well as special compartments for collecting and studying geothermal energy.

NY 6th Ward (John Houser)
This area will occupy the space between 22nd and 14th streets and 6th and 7th avenues in New York. The grid structure includes stations, parks, residential buildings, offices, etc. Just the same urban utopia!

Port of Singapore (Georgy Khmaladze)
Already by the name of this project, it can be understood that this port will be created in order to expand the financial district of Singapore. The designer places particular emphasis on the use of resources such as rainwater, natural ventilation and sunlight. The walls of the skyscraper will be inclined at an angle of 20 degrees to the ground. Each villa of this building offers its residents two-story apartments and a beautiful shaded private garden. The hotel and offices are located on the middle levels of the skyscraper, it is there that the most extensive compartments are hidden.

Moonscraper (Louis Quinon)
It's time to move to the moon, or rather, to the lunar crater Shackleton, located at the young pole of the moon. I'm not kidding! This project will be implemented there and, perhaps, will become your home in the future.

Soaring Olympic Village (Andrew Chow Wai Tat, Tao Huang, Xu Liang Chang)
The project is an inverted skyscraper that will serve as an Olympic village, and subsequently transform into a city floating above the ground, where offices, residential buildings, entertainment and recreation areas and infrastructure will be located. The prototypes of the design were the umbrella dome, rude and stalactites. The designers of the project see its implementation for the upcoming Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

Skyscraper at the North Pole: Transshipment base for cargo transportation (Borja Mugiro)
This project is proposed as a transportation center for the Arctic region. A multi-section skyscraper cuts through the Arctic ice shelf and serves as a warehouse for cargo from different countries peace.

Life on Demand (Benjamin Fenstra, Gelmer Frank Vigna)
We offer you a futuristic concept of delivering all kinds of goods and services right to your doorstep, and you don't have to leave it at all. Play golf? Please! The doctors? He is at your service! "Go to the cinema? There is nothing easier! Just order, and we will fulfill your every desire.

Waste Collector (Agatha Sander, Tomek Kuzhavsky)
This skyscraper is nothing but a recycling plant right in the middle of the city! This project was developed specifically for the Huangpu area (Shanghai). The recycling capacity of the facility is 400 tons of municipal solid waste daily. Processing is clean, autonomous and does not require intensive land use.

Hope Hotel: High Rise Transit Housing (Asaf Dali)
This project is intended for people who have lost their homes as a result of natural disasters or economic crisis. The outer frame of the building allows you to set up a tent camp inside the building, as well as place all the necessary amenities there, such as showers, beds, etc. etc. The design also includes laundries, warehouses and kitchens common use.

Vertical farm within the city (Yiking Jiang, Ying Jiang)
This is a project to build a skyscraper with parks and farms right in the center of Shanghai.

Grain of Life (Osama Mohammed Elganam, Karim Mohammed Elnabawi, Mohammed Ahmed Khamis, Nesma Mohammed Abobakr)
Your attention is invited to a plan of residential buildings for the newly liberated Cairo. To create them, building materials from recycled waste from city dumps will be used. The essence of the project is the construction of a frame that can accommodate various configurations of residential sections.

An inhabited mountain will save you from overpopulation (Anna-Maria Simatu, Mariant Dendrow)
An inhabited mountain is a skyscraper designed to be built in one of the least habitable places on our planet, the Taklamakan desert (northwest China). This high-rise building, covering an area of 185 square meters. meters, there are artificial lakes and residential complexes equipped with all necessary amenities. At the top of this structure, rainwater accumulates, which subsequently falls freely in cascades directly into the atrium of the skyscraper and irrigates the plants. It really is an oasis in the middle of the desert!

The Tree of Life (Denis Sviridov and Anastasia Gudzenko)
The Tree of Life project, which is an autonomous ecosystem, is designed specifically for open pit mines around the world. The lower level of the building, or its root, contains a power plant for collecting geothermal energy, as well as a water purification system. The barrel provides structural strength. Pneumatic elevators are the connecting links between the sections of a skyscraper. In the crown of the Tree of Life are residential sectors, offices, schools and entertainment centers. It also has its own agricultural fields and greenhouses, uses solar panels and wind turbines.

Skyscraper Hydra (Milos Vlastic, Vuk Djodzevic, Anna Lazovic, Melissa Stankovic)
Hydra is a skyscraper project based on hydrogen energy produced by electrolysis and stored in batteries. Energy can be transported through pipes, trucks or wires. Energy is also planned to be obtained from lightning during a thunderstorm and stored in the same batteries. Here it is supposed to create all the conditions necessary for the living of families of scientists.

Oil platforms are being transformed into energy-sustainable "seascrapers" (Yang Wan Kim, Joon Jung Park, Jung Ha Park)
This is a transformation project. oil platforms into energy sustainable skyscrapers that will purify water. Modernized equipment is expected, including residential complexes.

Elastic Tower (David Gal, Jin Yung Song)
Elastic cables are suspended from the top of the Elastic Tower and attached to the perimeter of the rack at its base. Cables encircle the skyscraper, creating a diagonal configuration that prevents the structure from deforming.

Overhead Communication (Adam Nakagoshi, Thao Nguyen)
The three-level structure is intended for communication between the upper floors of already existing skyscrapers. The lower floors are in public use and are used primarily for transportation. The middle levels contain residential sections and offices, and not the upper floors are recreation and entertainment areas.

Rollercoaster: Times Square Vertical Amusement Park (Dalho Young & Sungdong Jung)
The name of the project speaks for itself! Roller coaster now in Times Square. This research project movement in three dimensions, which has not yet been tested and created in order to destroy the usual idea of movement in horizontal and vertical planes.

Barbed Wire (Hongbeom Cho, Jinkyu Park, Hong Sup Kim, Jiwon Kim)
The project was based on the idea of uniting the Northern and South Korea, as well as the importance of preserving the inviolable reserves of the demilitarized zone. The project includes the creation of a museum and a nature reserve where visitors can play sports and just relax in nature.

Skyscraper dump (Milorad Vidozhevich, Elena Pukarevich, Melissa Pilcher)
This is a cleanup project. Pacific Ocean through the creation of several underwater skyscrapers or floating islands. The structure of the buildings is based on self-supporting nodes, organized according to a functional hierarchy and communicating with 4 connecting cores supporting 3 main programs. The sewer is located at the bottom of the structure, the processing plant in the middle level, and the entertainment areas at the top.

Kinetic skyscraper (Victor Kopeikin, Pavel Zabotin)
The kinetic skyscraper project includes three main programs, a geothermal plant (lower level), living quarters and offices (upper level), and a "solar" plant equipped with thousands of photovoltaic panels. Attached to the outer frame are kinetic living quarters, shaped like flower buds that can also open and close.

Chernobyl Skyscrapers (Mengy Zhang)
This is a post-apocalyptic zone reconstruction project Chernobyl disaster on the territory of Ukraine.

White Cloud (Adrian Vincent Kumar, Yun Kong Sung)
We present to your attention an air purification project. The structures are "inverted" skyscrapers, at the base of which there is an extensive entertainment infrastructure, and at the top - residential complexes and offices. A thin membrane lets air through, subjecting it to a cleaning process, and a constant mist washes air particles trapped in a fabric-like material. The dust screened out during the cleaning process is used in the manufacture of bricks in a factory located in the same structure.

United Skyscraper (Justin Oh)
The final height of this skyscraper has not yet been determined, because the project has been constantly being finalized for 20 years! In this building, you can trace the changes architectural styles throughout all 20 years.

Triangle TowerVparis. Herzog & de Meuron

We begin the review of skyscraper projects with a truly historical event. 42 years after the construction of the last high-rise building- Towers of Montparnasse - Paris will receive a new skyscraper (the business district of La Defense is not formally included in the boundaries of the city). According to the design of Herzog and de Meuron, a 180-meter triangle tower will be built. The skyscraper project became possible after the city lifted height restrictions on the construction of buildings above 32 meters in 2010.

However, even with the abolition of these restrictions, the Swiss project was a big question. A year ago, at the first discussion of the skyscraper, the city council members rejected the project: 78 people voted "for" and 83 "against". Only a year later, it was possible to fulfill all the requirements of officials and obtain a building permit.

The 42 floors of the new building will house a hotel with 130 rooms, a restaurant and 70 thousand square meters. m of office space. According to the architects, the triangular shape of the building is due to the desire to minimize the shadow falling on the surrounding buildings. Also one of key features of the project will be fully glazed facades, which, according to the architects, will literally dissolve the building in the skyline of the city.

Tower53W53VNew- York. Ateliers Jean Nouvel

Jean Nouvel, who Lately not as lucky at home as Herzog and de Meuron (a Frenchman with a scandal over the Paris Philharmonic), are close to realizing their first skyscraper in New York. The 53W53 tower project was first presented to the public back in 2007, but due to the financial crisis, it had to be postponed.

The new 320-meter skyscraper will be located next to the museum contemporary art MoMA, which will receive three floors of the tower at its disposal. In total, the building is planned to accommodate 139 apartments ranging in price from 3 to 70 million dollars, including duplexes with private elevators and penthouses the size of an entire floor.

The main feature of the skyscraper will be a zigzag load-bearing frame. Due to the narrowing of the shape of the building at the top, each apartment will have its own unique dimensions. Special ones will be installed on the inclined surfaces of the facades.

2 World Trade CenterVNew- York. BIG

Another skyscraper project for New York, unlike the previous one, appeared literally out of nowhere. The last of the four towers on the site of the World Trade Center was supposed to be built by Norman Foster's bureau - a foundation had already been erected under the building. However, judging by the rumors, one of the main developers of the project, Larry Silverstein, who clearly did not like the British skyscraper, intervened in the matter.

As a result, after a month of behind-the-scenes discussions, it was officially announced that BIG would erect the last building in the complex instead of Norman Foster. The project of the Danish bureau consists of seven parallelepipeds stacked on top of each other, the size of which gradually decreases from bottom to top. The project was presented by Bjarke Ingels himself through an animated video:

June was a very successful month for BIG. A few weeks after receiving the project in New York, it became known about the company's victory in the competition for a 185-meter skyscraper in Frankfurt.

The form is based on the volume of a parallelepiped, in which the architects begin to move the individual levels. So, in the middle of the tower, where offices are replaced by housing, the levels are shifted towards the south, thereby forming open terraces. And on the first floors, the shifts in levels are connected with the desire to break the volume of a skyscraper into elements comparable to a person.

Turm mit TailleVVienna. MVRDV

Another skyscraper in Europe, which deserves special attention, was proposed by the Dutch bureau MVRDV. Like their Danish colleagues, architects from a simple parallelepiped, through unpretentious transformations, get a new independent form. In this case, the architects twisted the volume around its axis, obtaining a shape resembling an hourglass.

However, the seemingly random silhouette is dictated solely by the complexities of the site. Since there is a metro station in the neighborhood, the regulations (in order to ensure sufficient illumination and minimize the shadow from the new building) were clearly spelled out: a 75-meter trapezoidal tower.

The architects also proposed to increase the height of the building to 110 meters, but narrowed the building area, thereby reducing the shadow cast by the skyscraper. And the twisting of the first 10 floors not only reduced the shading time to two hours a day, but also opened up views of the famous Vienna Gasholders.

Read about how to completely get rid of the falling shadow of skyscrapers.

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Jenga TowerVVancouver. Buro Ole Scheeren

In the sense of experimenting with form, the German architect Ole Scheren went further than his colleagues in the project for Vancouver. The project proposed by him is positioned as “the future vision of vertical housing”, and the building itself rearranges a system of modules shifted in different horizontal directions in order to enliven the space of the city and diversify the silhouette clogged with strict verticals of other skyscrapers.

However, there is no talk of any specific implementation dates yet, and it is quite possible that the project will join the "dream skyscrapers" that are exhibited every year at the eVolo competition for high-rise housing of the future. By the way, this year a student from Russia also entered the competition. Egor Orlov proposed a project called “Cyberotopia. Death of analogue cities.

SkyCityVChina. Broad Sustainable Building

While the rest of the architects worked with the form and came up with future typologies high-rise construction, a Chinese company Broad Sustainable Building has improved existing construction technologies. We are already talking about how the company managed to build a skyscraper with a height of 57 floors in 19 days. Now the founder of the company Zhang Yue (Zhang Yue) sets himself more ambitious goal. Already in early 2016, construction of the 838-meter Sky City tower should begin, which the builders promise to build in just 7 months. In order to meet the deadline, it will be necessary to build 4 floors per day. And judging by Zhang Yue's past successes, he is quite capable of it.

Bonus: wooden Empire State building

Projects of wooden skyscrapers have recently literally flooded the Internet. The architect Michael Green from MGA also contributed a lot to this. Three years ago, he designed a 30-story wooden residential complex for Vancouver, and recently the architects proposed what could become the tallest wooden skyscraper in the world.

To draw attention to the possibilities of wood, MGA, together with the Finnish woodworking company Metsä Wood, launched the Plan B project, which aims to show the world that wood can become the “steel of the 21st century” in construction. Architects will select famous buildings and develop designs for their all-wood counterparts.

The first such object was the 102-story skyscraper Empire State Building. To build a wooden version of the skyscraper, the architects developed special Ketro wood panels made from layers of plywood glued together. According to the developers, such panels can reach 2.5 m in width and 25 m in length. On this moment a project proposal has been drawn up, on the basis of which the team will begin to create a working draft.

And although the cost of erecting and maintaining such a wooden building is silent, it can be assumed that with the development of wooden technologies, the sphere of high-rise construction may change dramatically.

Images by Herzog & de Meuron, Ateliers Jean Nouvel, BIG, MVRDV, Zaha Hadid Architects, Broad Sustainable Building, Metsä Wood

This is the ninth competition of its kind. It was attended by 525 projects from 43 countries. Three winners and 20 laureates were selected by a rigorous jury, which included the world's leading experts in the field of architecture and design

The projects that you will see here will not be implemented tomorrow, or even the day after tomorrow. However, they provide a glimpse of how cities may change in the future.

The first prize went to a project that combined the features of national Korean architecture with the features of a modern multi-purpose high-rise building.

The second place went to a skyscraper-city with living quarters, recreation areas and commercial offices - all this fit in a giant cube.

The environmentally friendly skyscraper took third place. It is assumed that it should neutralize greenhouse gases and, thus, reduce their content in the atmosphere.

"Sandy Babylon" is a group of environmentally friendly structures, which, according to the author of the project, should serve as scientific bases and attract tourists. Main building material for the construction of these towers will be sand processed with 3- D printer using solar energy.

A new look at the idea of a greenhouse. This skyscraper will serve research center for compiling meteorological forecasts and conducting other scientific research.

This skyscraper rushed up to save aircrafts from hydrocarbon dependence during takeoff with the help of electromagnetism.

Vertical junction station for super high speed trains.

The giant water tower collects water during the rainy seasons and waters the land during dry periods.

The "New Tower of Babel" is a metal structure that the author proposes to build in the desert as an "open city".

The Bamboo Forest project is intended primarily for Asia. The author proposes to enclose the building with permanent bamboo scaffolding as an additional strengthening of the structure in case of an earthquake. Another advantage of this project is the possibility of growing vertical gardens.

Skyscraper "Superfilter", which will "inhale" carbon dioxide and other harmful gases and "exhale" concentrated oxygen.

A structure in the form of a giant umbrella that generates "green" energy.

When strong earthquake this building, instead of collapsing, will sink into unstable ground.

Project for major cities. Designed to accommodate as many residents as possible right at the site of important transport hubs.

Sky Village is a project for Los Angeles. Connects several districts of the city.