The Solar City Tower, designed by RAFAA, includes a bank of solar panels as well as pumped water storage to create energy during both the day and night for use in the Olympic Village.
The Living Mountain, by Anna-Maria Simatou and Marianthe Dendrou of Greece, is a skyscraper city designed to rehabilitate land that has been changed into deserts by climate change.
A new super skyscraper has just been announced for South Korea and will tower over all other buildings in Asia when it is complete in 2014. From a global
As cities have grown, they have spread out consuming more land and becoming less dense. Tower City, an entry in the 2010 eVolo Skyscraper Competition, proposes moving the city out onto the water to a new city in order to reclaim the land.
There's a new contender vying for the title of World's Most Sustainable Skyscraper: The new headquarters for the CNTC Guangdong Company, a large tobacco
Designed by Woods Bagot, the Nakheel Tower would be around over a kilometer tall coming in around 1,400 meters (4,593 ft) and be designed to LEED standards.
eVolo Magazine is pleased to invite students, architects, engineers, and designers from around the globe to take part in the 2011 Skyscraper Competition.