Posts Tagged ‘eco skyscraper’

March 11th, 2010 - 1:00 am § in Architecture

10 MW Dubai Skyscraper Makes 10X More Renewable Energy Than It Needs

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March 10th, 2010 - 10:30 am § in Architecture

Tower City is an Ecotopia Stacked Up on Stilts

Tower City, another concept from the 2010 eVolo Skyscraper Competition, re-envisions the city of Marseilles as a stacked skyscraper that sits on stilts above the water. Rather than letting cities spread out as population increases, a the design calls for a new city to be created out on the water, c[...]

March 9th, 2010 - 5:05 am § in Architecture

Water Purifying Skyscraper Cleans up Jakarta’s Rivers

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February 9th, 2010 - 8:00 am § in Architecture

The Gyre: A Floating Upside Down Eco Skyscraper

Can you imagine living in a high-rise apartment building where the 360 degree views are of fishes and saltwater? Although just a concept now, this upside-down, underwater eco-skyscraper could be the future of building, especially if sea levels rise as predicted and we end up living in a water world[...]

October 22nd, 2009 - 1:16 am § in Architecture

Tallest Building in Asia Revealed for Seoul, South Korea

A new super skyscraper has just been announced for South Korea and will tower over all other buildings in Asia when it is complete in 2014. From a global perspective, Lotte Super Tower 123, designed by Kohn Pederson Fox, falls just short of taking the title, and will be not the tallest but the  se[...]