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eVolo<\/a>\u2019s annual skyscraper design contest has become a hotbed for some extraordinary and often controversial twists on the high-rise typology over the years: We\u2019ve seen everything from floating megacities<\/a> to an immense agricultural prison<\/a> levitating in the clouds.<\/p>\n

The winning designs for 2015 have just been announced, and they are just as diverse as you would hope. Take a look at those that secured the top honors, and judge for yourself which sky-high proposals should be made a reality…<\/p>\n

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1st<\/sup> Place: Essence Skyscaper by BOMP (Ewa Odyjas, Agnieszka Morga, Konrad Basan and Jakub Pudo)<\/b><\/p>\n

Essence Skyscraper<\/a> is a utopian mega-complex designed for adventure, wrapped in an ethereal, translucent skin. Natural landscapes and can be found on each level, including an ocean, a jungle, a cave, and a waterfall, meant to be a \u201crepresentation of external worlds in the shape of a vertical structure.\u201d The proposal raises a provocative question: If we construct on a grand enough scale, can we transpose the awe-inspiring power of nature into our urban environments?<\/p>\n

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2nd<\/sup> Place | Invisible Perception: Shanty-Scraper by Suraksha Bhatla and Sharan Sundar<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n

In stark contrast to Essence Skyscraper, Shanty-Scraper<\/a> envisages a markedly more dystopian structure in response to Chennai city\u2019s struggle to cope with rapid urbanization and \u201clack of political will.\u201d Adaptive reuse, expansion, and improvement of existing slums is seen as the most feasible solution, utilizing redundant construction materials to form a rhythmic lattice structure for local fisherman. Within this condition, a vertical city forms \u2014 marketplace, utility yard, gathering space, lookout tower, and home.<\/p>\n

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3rd<\/sup> Place: Cybertopia by Egor Orlov<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n

Cybertopia<\/a> imagines a future in which our physical and digital worlds merge, comprised of an architecture that can morph to accommodate ever-increasing fields of knowledge and emerging forms of technology. The vast, grid-like structure forms a frame into which numerous programs can be inserted and ejected, much like the Metabolic creations of Archigram \u2014 or perhaps it’s the architectural manifestation of the Internet, a kind of \u201cWikipedia in the Sky.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Check out more details of all three projects over on the eVolo website<\/a>, as well as the truly excellent runners-up<\/a> as well. It appears the sky is by no means the limit after all\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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