eVolo Magazine is pleased to announce the
winners of the 2019 Skyscraper Competition. The Jury selected
3 winners and 27 honorable mentions from 478 projects received. The annual
award established in 2006 recognizes visionary ideas that through the novel use of technology, materials, programs, aesthetics, and spatial organizations, challenge the way we understand vertical architecture and its relationship with the natural and built environments.
The
FIRST PLACE was awarded to
METHANESCRAPER designed by Marko Dragicevic from Serbia. The project is a vertical city-district in Belgrade that serves as landfill with recycling capabilities.
The recipients of the
SECOND PLACE are Klaudia Gołaszewska and Marek Grodzicki from Poland for the project
AIRSCRAPER. This proposal envisions a city-like skyscraper that cleans air of heavily polluted urban settlements.
CREATURE ARK: BIOSPHERE SKYSCRAPER designed by Zijian Wan, Xiaozhi Qi, and Yueya Liu from the United Kingdom received the
THIRD PLACE. The project is a nature reserve skyscraper with research facilities.
The Honorable Mentions include an ice dam skyscraper that prevents further melting of the ice caps, a wooden skyscraper that pushes the boundary of the use of timber in vertical structures, and a horizontal skyscraper for the US-Mexico border among other innovative projects.
The Jury was formed by Melike Altınısık [Founder and design principal Melike Altınısık Architects], Vincent Callebaut [Founder and design principal Vincent Callebaut Architectures], Marc Fornes [Founder and design principal THEVERYMANY], and Mitchell Joachim [Co-Founder and design principal of Terreform ONE].
