35 Futuristic Skyscraper Designs That Will Blow Your Mind
You haven't seen anything as radical as the winners of eVolo Magazine's 2011 Skyscraper Competition.
The winning design is a giant turbine with a greenhouse designed as an air filter and recycling center for New Delhi.
There were also honorable mentions for an underground "Tower of the Dead" cemetery for Mexico City, a 20-level fish farm and an apartment building with interchangeable rooms that lets you call down for a "jacuzzi box."
This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in.FIRST PLACE: LO2P Recycling Skyscraper in New Delhi by Atelier CMJN
SECOND PLACE: Flat Tower in Rennes, France by Yoann Mescam, Paul-Eric Schirr-Bonnans, and Xavier Schirr-Bonnans
THIRD PLACE: Hoover Dam Tower by Yheu-Shen Chua
HONORABLE MENTION #1: NeoTax Three-dimensional City Grid by Studio DMTW
HONORABLE MENTION #2: PoroCity Rehabilitation for Mumbai by Khushalani Associates
HONORABLE MENTION #3: The underground Tower for the Dead for Mexico by Israel López Balan, Elsa Mendoza Andrés, and Moisés Adrián Hernández García
HONORABLE MENTION #4: Fish Tower by Hsing-O Chiang
HONORABLE MENTION #5: Sports Tower for Ukraine by Sergiy Prokof`yev and Olga Prokof`yeva
HONORABLE MENTION #6: RE:pH Coastscraper for England by Gary Kellett
HONORABLE MENTION #7: Iceberg Autonomy: Oil Recovery by Akram Fahmi
HONORABLE MENTION #8: Tourist City Skyscraper for Cancun by UseCollective
HONORABLE MENTION #9: Rhizome Tower by Metarchitects
HONORABLE MENTION #10: Borough no. 6 for New York City by John Houser
HONORABLE MENTION #11: Singapore’s Waterfront by Giorgi Khmaladze
HONORABLE MENTION #12: Moonscraper by Luis Quinones
HONORABLE MENTION #13: Floating Olympic Complex for Rio de Janiero by Andrew Chow Wai Tat, Tao Huang, and Xue Liang Zhang
HONORABLE MENTION #14: North Pole Skyscraper by Borja Muguiro
HONORABLE MENTION #15: On Demand Experience by Benjamin Feenstra and Jelmer Frank Wijnia
HONORABLE MENTION #16: Waste Collector Skyscraper by Agata Sander and Tomek Kujawski
HONORABLE MENTION #17: Hopetel by Asaf Dali
HONORABLE MENTION #18: 3D Green for Shanghai by Yiqing Jiang and Ying Tao
HONORABLE MENTION #19: Seeds of Life for Cairo by Mekano
HONORABLE MENTION #20: Living Mountain for the Taklamakan desert by Anna-Maria Simatou and Marianthe Dendrou
HONORABLE MENTION #21: Tree of Life by Svirid Denis and Gudzenko Anastasiya
HONORABLE MENTION #22: Hydra Skyscraper by Milos Vlastic, Vuk Djordjevic, Ana Lazovic, and Milica Stankovic
HONORABLE MENTION #23: Sustainable Seascrapers on Oil Platforms by YoungWan Kim, SueHwan Kwun, JunYoung Park and JoongHa Park
HONORABLE MENTION #24: Tensile Tower by David Gull and Jin Young Song
HONORABLE MENTION #25: Elevated Connectivity by Adam Nakagoshi and Thao Nguyen
HONORABLE MENTION #26: Rollin’ and Tumble for New York City by Dalho Yang and Seungdon Jung
HONORABLE MENTION #27: Barbed-wire Skyscraper for Korea by Hyunbeom Cho, JinKyu Pak, HongSup Kim and Jiwon Kim
HONORABLE MENTION #28: Lady Landfill Skyscraper for the Pacific by Milorad Vidojević, Jelena Pucarević and Milica Pihler
HONORABLE MENTION #29: Kinetic Skyscraper for Mexico by Victor Kopieikin and Pavlo Zabotin
HONORABLE MENTION #30: Coalesce Skyscraper for Hong Kong by Justin Oh
HONORABLE MENTION #31: Chernobyl Skyscrapers Network for Ukraine by Mengni Zhang
HONORABLE MENTION #32: White Cloud Skyscraper for Guangzhou by Adrian Vincent Kumar and Yun Kong Sung
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