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Conceptual skyscrapers

  • Skylines Tower by Piero Lissoni

    Piero Lissoni designs conceptual New York skyscraper to be "self-sufficient garden-city"

    Italian architect Piero Lissoni's studio has designed a conceptual skyscraper in New York as a self-contained community and vertical urban farm that would provide an example of living in the post-Covid era. More

    Eleanor Gibson | 14 August 2020 | Leave a comment
  • Stone skyscraper by Amin Taha's studio Groupwork and Webb Yates

    Groupwork designs 30-storey stone skyscraper

    Amin Taha's architecture studio Groupwork has collaborated with structural engineer Webb Yates to design a conceptual 30-storey stone office block that would be cheaper and more sustainable than concrete or steel equivalents. More

    Tom Ravenscroft | 10 March 2020 | Leave a comment
  • James Parkes designs high-rise for women "burdened by capitalism"

    Central Saint Martins graduate James Parkes has proposed creating a tower in Brixton where disadvantaged women who are "burdened by the effects of capitalism" can create art after being released from prison. More

    Fiona Hartley | 26 July 2019 | Leave a comment
  • Compass Pools has unveiled their concept for a four-sided infinity pool designed to sit on a 220-metre tower in London and accessed via a submarine-style door

    World's first 360-degree infinity pool proposed for London skyline

    Compass Pools has unveiled a concept for a four-sided infinity pool atop a London skyscraper, accessed via a submarine-style door. More

    India Block | 7 June 2019 | Leave a comment
  • Conceptual skyscrapers: 2019 eVolo Skyscraper Competition winners

    Vertical waste processor wins conceptual skyscraper contest

    A skyscraper that processes waste, an ice dam, an urban nature reserve and a border-wall building are among the conceptual projects recognised in this year's eVolo Skyscraper Competition. More

    Tom Ravenscroft | 13 May 2019 | Leave a comment
  • East 34th Street skyscraper by MAD

    MAD imagines sinuous black East 34th skyscraper to "soften" New York's skyline

    MAD has envisioned a slender, dark skyscraper twisting up beside New York's Empire State Building as a contrast to the harshness of the city's supertall structures. More

    Eleanor Gibson | 11 April 2019 | Leave a comment
  • The Tulip by Foster + Partners

    Foster + Partners proposes 305-metre-tall tourist viewing tower for London

    The Tulip – a 305.3-metre tall tower topped with a viewpoint and rotating gondolas designed by Foster + Partners – is planned to be built alongside the Gherkin in London. More

    India Block | 19 November 2018 | Leave a comment
  • eVolo skyscraper competition

    Collapsable skyscraper for disaster zones wins conceptual design competition

    This foldable skyscraper concept was designed by Polish architects to offer relief in remote disaster zones, and has been named the winner of this year's eVolo Skyscraper Competition. More

    India Block | 18 April 2018 | Leave a comment
  • 265 West 45th Street by RB Systems

    RB Systems envisions super-slender cylindrical skyscraper for New York

    Design studio RB Systems is following the trend for super-slender towers in New York with a speculative proposal for a 400-metre skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan, which would be supported by spiralling steel cables rather than columns. More

    Dan Howarth | 6 March 2018 | Leave a comment
  • World's tallest timber tower proposed for Tokyo

    Japanese timber company Sumitomo Forestry has revealed plans for the world's tallest wooden building in Tokyo, a 350-metre skyscraper that would also be the country's highest. More

    Tom Ravenscroft | 19 February 2018 | Leave a comment
  • DFA re-envisions Pier 40

    DFA proposes "floating" affordable housing for dilapidated Manhattan pier

    New York architecture studio DFA has imagined a series of latticed apartment towers for Manhattan's Pier 40, which would be able to remain above water in the event of rising sea levels. More

    Eleanor Gibson | 9 February 2018 | 1 comment
  • The Big Bend by oiio architecture studio

    Dezeen's top 10 conceptual skyscrapers of 2017

    This year saw a bumper crop of conceptual towers unveiled, in addition to the plethora of completed skyscrapers. Architecture editor Jessica Mairs continues our review of the year with her pick of the best fantasy towers, from plant-covered high-rises on Mars to a vertical farm in Africa. More

    Jessica Mairs | 23 December 2017 | 1 comment
  • Pod vending machine by Haseef Rafiei

    Pod Vending Machine concept by Haseef Rafiei tackles housing demand by printing modular homes

    A skyscraper 3D prints modular homes and dispenses them like a vending machine in the latest instalment of our Dezeen x MINI Living Initiative video series. More

    Calum Lindsay | 19 May 2017 | 22 comments
  • Tribute: The Monument of Giant by Ko Jinhyeuk, Cheong Changwon, Cho Kyuhung and Choi Sunwoong

    Skyscraper competition proposal involves erecting towers within world's largest trees

    A conceptual scheme by a team of South Korean designers calls for inserting towers within the hollowed-out trunks of giant sequoias in the western US. More

    Jenna McKnight | 1 May 2017 | 36 comments
  • Instant City : Living Air-Right Beomki Lee and Chang Kyu Lee

    Modular affordable housing envisioned for "abandoned" New York airspace

    This conceptual scheme by designers Beomki Lee and Chang Kyu Lee calls for using vacant airspace over existing New York buildings to create affordable apartments and public areas. More

    Jenna McKnight | 20 April 2017 | 9 comments
  • Mashambas Skyscraper by Lipiński and Frankowski

    Modular farm tower for sites across Africa wins international skyscraper competition

    Polish designers Pawel Lipiński and Mateusz Frankowski have envisioned a conceptual high-rise building that would act as a vertical farm, able to be disassembled and moved to different locations across sub-Saharan Africa. More

    Jenna McKnight | 14 April 2017 | 18 comments
  • Analemma Tower

    Supertall skyscraper hangs from orbiting asteroid in Clouds Architecture Office concept

    In a bid to get around terrestrial height restrictions, Clouds Architecture Office has proposed suspending the world's tallest skyscraper from an asteroid, leaving residents to parachute to earth. More

    Jessica Mairs | 23 March 2017 | 88 comments
  • The Big Bend by oiio architecture studio

    Oiio imagines The Big Bend skyscraper for New York as "the longest building in the world"

    In response to the swathe of supertall luxury residential towers rising in New York, local studio Oiio has proposed a conceptual skyscraper that loops over to boast length rather than height. More

    Dan Howarth | 16 March 2017 | 56 comments
  • CN Tower reimagined by Quadrangle

    Toronto's CN Tower reimagined as residential high-rise covered in wooden pods

    Clusters of parasitic apartment units cling to the sides of the CN Tower in this conceptual proposal by Toronto studio Quadrangle. More

    Dan Howarth | 7 February 2017 | 13 comments
  • Shanty Megastructures by Lekan Jeyifo

    Designer Olalekan Jeyifous imagines vertical shanty towns for central Lagos

    Designer Olalekan Jeyifous has created a dystopian vision of shanty-town towers in Lagos, Nigeria, to highlight the poor standard of living in the city's impoverished areas (+ slideshow).  More

    Eleanor Gibson | 9 August 2016 | 7 comments
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