24/7 Habitable Bridge for Seville, Spain

Adopting famous Spanish traditions of street life proposes a cosmopolitan center that would create a refuge from the harsh sun of Andalusia and extend the life of the street 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Sevilla 24/7 is not only a holiday or the ...

BIG Transforms Ft. Lauderdale’s Waterfront into a Vibrant Urban Space

BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group and Cymbal Development transform a portion of Fort Lauderdale’s New River front into a vibrant addition for the local community and future residents of the city. The mixed-use development, Marina Lofts, in downtown Fort Lauderdale seeks to infuse a currently run-down stretch along the ...

Phoenix Unveils New Observation Tower / BIG

Located in downtown Phoenix, the 70,000 sf Observation Tower shall add a significant structure to the Phoenix skyline from which to enjoy the city’s spectacular views of the surrounding mountain ranges and dramatic sunsets. Phoenix-based developer Novawest, commissioned the team to create a destination event ...

24/7 Habitable Bridge for Seville, Spain

Andalusia and extend the life of the street 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Sevilla 24/7 is not only a holiday or the cultural side of Seville, also about everyday human interaction. People came here to visit a playground, library, supermarket, disco, eating tapas, ...

Agricultural eco-city in China

BHI Architects designs an agricultural eco-city in China The brief for this project was the design of an Eco City 60 square kilometers in Changxing, People's Republic of China, based on urban agriculture and sustainability systems incorporated in the growth of the community. The main customers are ...

Designing an Urban Village / Brenac+Gonzalez

  The building is composed of several layers assembled on the vertical axis, on a properly anchored providing natural and use related services. It is designed according to the needs of each site housing, thus defining overlay districts. As a people, the skyscraper is organized and ...

Winners 2012 Skyscraper Competition

Himalaya Water Tower First Place 2012 Skyscraper Competition Zhi Zheng, Hongchuan Zhao, Dongbai Song China Housed within 55,000 glaciers in the Himalaya Mountains sits 40 percent of the world’s fresh water. The massive ice sheets are melting at a faster-than-ever pace due to climate change, posing possible dire consequences for ...

2011 Skyscraper Competition Finalists

This year’s finalists for eVolo Magazine’s Skyscraper Competition pushed the bar and came up with some fascinating and innovative superstructures. From a vertical farm skyscraper complete with cows and chickens to an abandoned oil rig turned chic urban habitat, this year was clearly about imagining ...

Taichung Echo Wind Tower, Taiwan

Interlocking metal leaves by day, digital display mechanism by night, the Taichung Echo Wind Tower is a breath of fresh air Overseeing the Taichung basin, the Taiwan Tower is the observatory of the central Taiwan ecosystem ranging from the Central Mountain Range to the South China ...

Living Roof: Green, temporary apartment squashed into a tiny, 28-foot-long capsule

Find it hard to settle in one place, or look for a change in view every tomorrow, or just hate the futile moroseness of everyday life? Well, then try and settle in on this concept, even if it is a bit of an imagination set ...