Skyscraper
Tall buildings that define urban skylines, exploring structural innovation, sustainability, and vertical living.
gad and SOM Set Twin Glass Towers with Angled Crowns on the Last Open Waterfront Parcel of Qingdao's Fushan Bay
On Fushan Bay in Qingdao, two blue glass towers with sliced crowns try to hold the city's need for stability against the open pull of the sea.
Step-Scraper 4u: A Shortlisted Amaravati Skyscraper That Turns the Climb Into a Public Hike
A ramped public route rises over a mall to a plaza 30 metres up, recasting the high-rise in Amaravati as a vertical city centre open to everyone.
The Veil: A Fabric-Wrapped Tower That Turns a Beijing CBD Skyscraper into an Ecological Machine
Marco Livorno's CityScraper 2020 shortlisted tower wraps a microalgae facade around a public podium, pairing skyline drama with ground-level repair.
CityScraper: A Skyscraper Rebuilt as a Municipal Viaduct of Streets, Townhouses and Spiralling Roads
Alexander Malyshev wraps serpentine roads, terraced streets and small gabled houses around a tower, testing whether density can keep a domestic scale.
Twisting Tower: A 160-Meter Vertical Garden Rising Above Manhattan
Twenty rotating floor plates spiral around a central core, stacking biodiverse terraces into a living skyscraper for a greener city.
Eternal-AX06: A 120-Storey Skyscraper That Breathes, Filters, and Regenerates the City
Gourab Das proposes a kinetic tower with a shape-shifting façade, vertical air filtration, and renewable energy systems woven into its structure.
RainFlow Tower: A Skyscraper That Harvests Singapore's Rain as Its Lifeblood
A biomimetic tower near Marina Bay channels tropical rainfall through its entire structure, merging water self-sufficiency with vertical urbanism.
TAHAN: A Vertical Cemetery That Refuses to Separate Life from Death
A high-rise memorial tower in timber and greenery merges burial gardens, civic plazas, and community spaces into one vertical urban structure.
Mountain: A Skyscraper That Treats Shanghai's Skyline as a Cultural Landscape
Suoao Wang's People's Choice winner reimagines the Chinese mountain as a vertical monument of identity along Shanghai's coastline.
Dubai Tower: A Vertical City Designed for Air Mobility and Green Living in 2050
A mixed-use skyscraper splits its mass with a central void to channel daylight, airflow, and a new model of urban coexistence in Dubai.
GROW: A 48-Story Sentient Skyscraper That Thinks Like a Plant
An AI-managed tower for Dubai 2060 fuses organic structural logic, modular living, and bio-digital infrastructure into one vertical habitat.
Mixed-Use Skyscraper: A Cactus-Inspired Tower That Stacks a Neighborhood Vertically
A 29-story hybrid tower uses a biomorphic structural skin and layered programming to reimagine vertical urban life in a single form.
