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Headline: eVolo 2017 Skyscraper Competition

Caption: PICTURE SHOWS: Wind Skyscraper. Honourable Mention. ...... These stunning designs represent entries in the eVolo 2017 Skyscraper Competition. The architecture and design journal asked for visionary ideas for future living, and was rewarded with spectacular building concepts. Highlights include dwellings in mountains and trees, futuristic skyscrapers for London and New York, and 'Heal-Berg' - a "reverse climate changing machine". Here we show the three winners selected by the jury, as well as eye-catching designs that received honourable mentions. First place was awarded to Pawel Lipiński and Mateusz Frankowski from Poland for the project Mashambas Skyscraper. The design proposes a modular and scalable skyscraper conceived as an educational centre and marketplace for new agricultural communities in sub-Saharan Africa. The design seeks to increase farming opportunities and reduce hunger in these regions. Second place was Vertical Factories in Megacities designed by Tianshu Liu and Linshen Xie from the United States. The design investigates the benefits of moving factories back to megacities. The proposal calls for a series of alternating architectural layers: factories and recreational areas stacked together to create a vertical structure. Each recreational layer would feed from the waste and resources of these factories. Third place was Javier López-Menchero Ortiz de Salazar from Spain for the project Espiral3500. The project takes the streets and complexity of the city's horizontal plane and puts it into a spiraling vertical structure. Honourable mentions include skyscrapers inside giant sequoias, villages embedded and hanging from mountains, automated plug-in cities, iceberg skyscrapers that reverse global warming, and wind harvesting structures among other fascinating projects. eVolo magazine focuses on technological advances, sustainability, and innovative design for the 21st Century. The annual award was established in 2006 to "recognise visionary ideas for building high projects that through the novel novel use of technology, materials, programs, aesthetics, and spatial organisations, challenge the way we understand vertical architecture and its relationship with the natural and built environments". PLEASE HYPERLINK: http://www.evolo.us/featured/winners-2017-skyscraper-competition/

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