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Conceptual skyscrapers: page 2

  • 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
  • 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
  • Gensler unveils skyscraper design for site of Calatrava's ill-fated Chicago Spire

    Global firm Gensler has proposed an alternative skyscraper concept for the waterfront site in Chicago where a spiralling, supertall condominium tower by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava was slated to rise. More

    Jenna McKnight | 7 June 2016 | 24 comments
  • Anders Berensson proposes wooden skyscraper with decorative facade for Stockholm

    Anders Berensson Architects has unveiled conceptual plans for Stockholm's tallest building – a 133-metre wooden skyscraper covered in numbers, which would be erected on top of a 1960s car park in the city centre. More

    Jessica Mairs | 25 April 2016 | 11 comments
  • PLP Architecture proposes London's first wooden skyscraper at the Barbican

    PLP Architecture and researchers from the University of Cambridge have revealed a concept for London's first wooden skyscraper – a 300-metre-tall addition to the Barbican housing estate. More

    Jessica Mairs | 8 April 2016 | 32 comments
  • Sunken "sidescraper" bordering New York's Central Park wins skyscraper competition

    US designers Yitan Sun and Jianshi Wu have proposed transforming Manhattan's Central Park into a sunken landscape encircled by a below-grade megastructure with office, housing, retail and cultural space. More

    Jenna McKnight | 28 March 2016 | 71 comments
  • KPF conceives futuristic new city quarter for archipelago in Tokyo Bay

    US-based firm Kohn Pedersen Fox has envisioned a new district in Tokyo that includes a mile-high skyscraper and infrastructure elements that will protect the city from natural disasters (+ slideshow). More

    Jenna McKnight | 16 February 2016 | 13 comments
  • PLP's Nexus tower aims to offer alternative to standard skyscraper design

    London-based PLP Architecture has revealed a masterplan for a project in China that includes a concept for a supertall tower composed of three rotated, interlocking volumes. More

    Jenna McKnight | 10 February 2016 | 2 comments
  • MAD proposes conceptual "vertical village" for LA as alternative to sprawl

    Chinese firm MAD Architects has proposed a futuristic housing scheme for LA that features sculptural towers wrapped in gardens and connected by sky bridges. More

    Jenna McKnight | 31 August 2015 | 8 comments
  • CRG Architects unveils concept for shipping container skyscrapers

    CRG Architects has unveiled a proposal to replace slum housing with a pair of skyscrapers comprising stacks of brightly coloured shipping containers.  More

    Jessica Mairs | 20 August 2015 | 31 comments
  • Adam Roberts proposes stacking traditional Kyoto dwellings to create "machiya towers"

    Graduate shows 2015: traditional machiya houses in the Japanese city of Kyoto are under threat from modern development, so Royal College of Art graduate Adam Roberts proposes stacking them up to make them more cost and space efficient (+ slideshow). More

    Alyn Griffiths | 26 July 2015 | 17 comments
  • Humanoid columns support conceptual skyscrapers designed to never go out of style

    Graduate shows 2015: human statues support the floors of these conceptual towers by graduate Alice Theodorou – part of a 10,000-year masterplan that anticipates nuclear war and city-wide flooding (+ slideshow). More

    Amy Frearson | 6 July 2015 | 33 comments
  • Studio Dror's conceptual tower designs for New York offer three takes on high-rise architecture

    Designer Dror Benshetrit has unveiled three proposals for residential towers on different sites in New York. More

    Anna Winston | 24 June 2015 | 4 comments
  • Designs unveiled for giant Rotterdam wind turbine you could live inside

    A team of Dutch companies has unveiled a proposal for a huge circular wind turbine that doubles as an apartment block and hotel, and also includes a rollercoaster. More

    Amy Frearson | 20 April 2015 | 9 comments
  • Cloud Capture is an imaginary flying machine for bringing rain to the desert

    This conceptual airborne structure is designed to absorb moisture from clouds and transport it to arid regions where it would be released as artificial rain to combat future environmental disasters. More

    Alyn Griffiths | 10 April 2015 | 4 comments
  • Conceptual high-rise containing 11 landscapes wins eVolo Skyscraper Competition

    A vision for a skyscraper containing swamps, mountains, glaciers and a jungle has been named the winner in a competition to come up with futuristic ideas for high-rise living. More

    Amy Frearson | 1 April 2015 | 18 comments
  • Shadow-free skyscrapers would redirect the sun's rays to public plazas

    A concept for "shadowless" skyscrapers that redirect sunlight to public spaces could work for tall buildings anywhere in the world, say the London designers behind the proposal. More

    Tamlin Magee | 23 March 2015 | 21 comments
  • Proposal unveiled for tornado-shaped skyscraper with a revolving rooftop restaurant

    Oklahoma firm Kinslow, Keith & Todd has presented its vision to build a skyscraper shaped like a tornado on top of a Tulsa parking garage. More

    Amy Frearson | 12 March 2015 | 11 comments
  • Chunky tower covered in plants proposed for Taiwan's capital

    Architect Fernando Menis has developed a concept for a residential tower complex with rock-like walls, a cavernous swimming pool and plants growing out of every crevice. More

    Amy Frearson | 19 December 2014 | 10 comments
  • Conceptual skyscraper designed for London could house its own metropolis

    News: this competition-winning design by SURE Architecture envisions a futuristic skyscraper that could house an entire city – with its own ecosystem and a spiralling form that could be extended infinitely upwards. More

    Amy Frearson | 1 September 2014 | 9 comments
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