CityScraper 2020

Sustainable Skyscraper Design Challenge

Worldwide

Brief Grants Schedule Awards & Fees Jurors Partners Discussion Entries (18)Leaderboard Rules & Guidelines

Winner

1 Entry

Misak

Collective Tower Hong Kong

Our proposal is a future strategy for Hong Kong. We want make to quality life better for the people . We cooperate on several floors different kind of green spaces and urban farming. It is hybrid lively system of collective living where there is also a freedom of living. The dwellings can easily be extended or decreased in this open building system.

Runner-up

1 Entry

舒

Memory: City Monument

This is a conceptual residential design based on Lilong (existing traditional buildings in Shanghai). Lilong, as a traditional architectural form, it gradually disappeared due to demolition in recent years. Based on the site itself and the inhabitants’ needs for "memory", we proposed a monument that can preserve the original architectural form and the memory

People's Choice Award

1 Entry

Jannatun Nayeem and 3 others

215

Breathing Tower

This skyscraper was designed as a prototype to emerge in the most polluted areas in the world with the potential to tackle the air pollution problem. Apart from serving the contextual and typical needs this 21st century skyscraper serves the global responsibility towards the environmental pollution around the city and the planet.

Editor's Choice

6 Entries

Alexander

CityScraper

The priority of present architectural conception is aimed at options analysis of urban infrastructure development within city center not only in horizontal but also in vertical directions. For this purpose, we tried to take a look at being designed structure not like a building only, but as well as a municipal viaduct.

EnLai

CITYSCRAPER-FUTURE MARKET

URBAN FARMING: THE RECONSTRUCTION OF XINFU MARKET BASED ON DIGITAL LIFESTYLE

小涵 and 3 others

Mega Medical Skyscrape

Skyscraper can also become an important means to fight disease.

Guiyu

The memory of world

The design is a vertical history exhibition hall, which creates different spaces and experiences in the vertical space. The author holds that the relationship between man and the natural environment runs through the whole process of the development of human civilization.

Joe

urban filter

Hongkong is a bustling city in Asia, symbolized by its skyscrapers and large population. With the rapid development of economy, the city is also faced with a serious of problem: the city is short of water despite heavy rainfall. To collect more rainfall and take advantage of the collected rainfall, the 'urban filter' is made.

Nicholas

Madison Square Gardens

The Madison Square Gardens Tower posits a new type of skyscraper for the Manhattan skyline. The structure departs from the historic skyscraper typology as a means for capital gains through private venture and instead proposes a new public/private venture as means to grow healthy vegetables and greens in the heart of New York City.

Shortlisted

9 Entries

Yash and 2 others

Step-Scraper 4u

A Skyscraper for the people and not the clouds.

Alun

Tribeca Drone Nest Cityscraper

A yonic, 'super-tall' sustainable Manhattan skyscraper providing low-cost housing, community education & live-work facilities. Self-financed via its integral, mid-level drone port and retail/restaurant market spaces below, it will be the first super-low carbon footprint skyscraper, using designed-in extensive passive environmental engineering.

Jian

The disappearing maldives--Unicorn ark

As sea levels rise over the next 100 years, flooding parts of male, the skyscraper will be built for the lost area, while existing industrial technologies will be designed to purify air and water as an energy source for the inside of the skyscraper.

VALENTINA

Cityscaper

Cityscaper Bamboo is in the heart of Vietnam's capital Hanoi.

Giovanni

CityScraper

A permeable cell (610 Brannan St., San Francisco, CA)

Marco

THE VEIL- RISE OF A GREEN SKYSCRAPER IN BEIJING

The veil skyscraper design is located in the CBD area of Beijing. The project stands as a cohesive element in the absence of a compositional situation of the project area. The eco sustainable tower, uses innovative techniques for renewable energy production. In this way, formal design is combined with a forward-thinking technological system.

Anastasia

UNOAR

The project explores a “crisis within architecture” topic and presents UNOAR - United Nations Organisation of Architectural Resources.

MEKEMTA

207

BISTOWER(Bionics Integration Sustainable building

The BIS TOWER seeks to reclaim wasteland in the wake of roadways, usually abandoned and unattractive space. The Tower consists of two organic-looking towers linked by hanging gardens, a wind turbine and a helicopter landing strip at the top.

VEDANT and 3 others

103

THE ANCHOR

The structure revolves around the idea of creating a city within a city. It promotes the concept of co-living, co-working within a concentrated package of people, economy, and capital. It is spined by a central core of public activities and interaction units that puncture the internal volume and articulate the facade.

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CityScraper 2020

Winner

Collective Tower Hong Kong

Runner-up

Memory: City Monument

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Breathing Tower

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