An architect maybe the drawer of dreams, but the art acts most slowly and surely on the soul. In what is described as the science of drawing and erecting buildings and other physical structure, it is the unwavering vision and imagination of the creators that adds the human feeling to mortar and steel. Presented here is a recap of the 25 most outstanding designs and concepts of the 2012 evolo Skyscraper Competition. Each one as breathtaking as the other!
1) Himalaya Water Tower by Zhi Zheng, Hongchuan Zhao & Dongbai Song
2) Mountain Band-Aid by Yiting Shen, Nanjue Wang, Ji Xia & Zihan Wang
3) Vertical Landfill by Lin Yu-Ta
4) Citadel Skyscraper by Victor Kopieikin & Pavlo Zabotin
5) Occupy Skyscraper by Ying Xiao & Shengchen Yang
6) Folded City by Adrien Piebourg & Bastien Papetti
7) Migrant Skyscraper by Damian Przybyła & Rafał Przybyła
8 ) House of Babel by MADETOGETHER – Nikita Asadov
9) Plastic Fish Tower by Kim Hongseop, Cho Hyunbeom, Yoon Sunhee & Yoon Hyungsoo
10) Tower of Babel by Maciej Nisztuk
11) Mountain City by Charly Duchosal
12) Coal Power Plant Mutation by Chipara Radu Bogdan
13) District 3 – Skyscraper of Liberation by Xiaoliang Lu & Yikai Lin
14) Bridge of Hope Skyscraper by Mohammed Adib, Ivan Arellano, Jordi Cunill, Maria Teresa Farre, Christian Koester & Davide Roncato
15) Vertical Ground by George Kontalonis, Jared Ramsdell, Nassim Es-Haghi & Rana Zureikat
16) Airport Skyscraper by ZhiYong Hong & XueTing Zhang
17) Aakash by Lemire Abdul Halim Chehab, Suraj Ramkumar Suthar & Swapnil Sanjay Gawande
18 ) Cliff Dwellings by PLUG: Román J. Cordero Tovar, Eric Israel Dorantes, Daniel Justino Rodríguez & Izbeth K. Mendoza Fragoso
19) Human Rights Skyscraper in Beijing by Ren Tianhang, Luo Jing & Kang Jun
20) Noah’s Ark: Sustainable City by Aleksandar Joksimovic & Jelena Nikolic
21) Tundra City by Pavel Sipkin
22) GreenGru Airportscraper by Gerasimos Pavlidis
23) Oceanscraper by Hui Chen & Luying Guo
24) Tehran Tower by Mahdi Kamboozia, Alireza Esfandiari, Nima Dehghani & Mohammad Ashkbar Sefat
25) Floaring City by Wei Zhao