15 Incredible Images Of Futuristic Skyscrapers
Light Park Floating Skyscraper Coming in third place, this design for Beijing imagines a skyscraper that brings parks and other green spaces to heavily developed areas. A giant balloon would suspend it in mid-air. We have some thoughts about trees on buildings, but it's still pretty amazing. (The following images all received honorable mentions in the competition.) Ting Xu, Yiming ChenArchitects design buildings for rebuilding after the apocalypse, terraforming Mars, and more. Click to enter the gallery eVolo Magazine, an architecture and design journal with a futuristic bent, has announced the winners of its 2013 Skyscraper Competition, where architects imagine what the skyscrapers of tomorrow will look like. Hundreds of architects entered and offered up concepts for buildings, and they are some of the most science-fictional ideas we've seen in a while. Just a quick sample of some honorable mentions: a skyscraper that floats on a giant balloon, a shield that...