eVolo

If you´ve read my prior blogs you might remember the architecture magazine I found on the internet called eVolo, at eVolo.us, well I´ve been looking through the posts they have and I have found the weirdest most creative projects. There are various pictures of skyscrapers that won contests or got to be finalists in the skyscraper competitions.

Here are some of the skyscrapers I found:

Finalist
2011 Skyscraper Competition
Rochambeau Cyrille, Bertin Joel, Herizo Randrianarison
France

Finalist of the Skyscraper Competition that include underground cities, vertical farms, bio-fuel power plants, and contemporary skyscrapers that would redefine the city of Paris. Other proposals use laminated wood as building material, propose hydro-thermal high-rises, redevelop abandoned oil rigs, and use shipping containers as habitable units for the modern urban nomad.

Third Place
2011 Skyscraper Competition
Yheu-Shen Chua
United Kingdom

The current public amenities of the world-famous Hoover Dam in the United States consist of a viewing platform, a bridge, and a gallery scattered around the entire site. This project aims to reconfigure these programs by merging them into a single vertical super structure.
One of the main purposes of the project is to allow the water from the upstream river to engage directly with the visitors through a series of containers. A hanging tower above the 700-foot drop into the Black Canyon would be used as gallery and a vertical aquarium.
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"eVolo is an architecture and design journal focused on technological advances, sustainability, and innovative design for the 21st Century. Their objective is to promote and discuss the most avant-garde ideas generated in schools and professional studios around the world. It is a medium to explore the reality and future of design with up-to-date news, events, and projects.

Since 2006, they have held a futuristic skyscraper design competition."