Skyscrapers of the future: the best projects (16 photos). Crazy skyscrapers of the future Skyscraper designs in the world
This is the ninth competition of this kind. 525 projects from 43 countries took part in it. Three winners and 20 laureates were selected by a strict jury, which included the world's leading experts in the field of architecture and design.
The projects that you will see here will not come true tomorrow, and not even the day after tomorrow. However, they give an idea of \u200b\u200bhow the face of cities may change in the future.
The first prize went to a project that combined features of Korean national architecture with the features of a modern multi-purpose high-rise building. 
The second place went to a skyscraper-city with living quarters, recreation areas and commercial offices - all of which fit into a giant cube. 
The environmentally friendly skyscraper was awarded third place. It is supposed to neutralize greenhouse gases and thus reduce their content in the atmosphere. 
Sandy Babylon is a group of environmentally friendly structures, which, according to the author of the project, should serve as scientific bases and attract tourists. The main building material for these towers will be sand, processed using a solar 3-D printer. 
A new look at the idea of \u200b\u200ba greenhouse. This skyscraper will serve as a research center for meteorological forecasts and other scientific research. 
This skyscraper rises upward to rid aircraft of hydrocarbon dependence during takeoff using electromagnetism. 
A vertical junction for super high-speed trains. 
The giant water tower collects water during rainy seasons and irrigates the land during dry periods. 
The "New Tower of Babel" is a metal structure that the author proposes to build in the desert as an "open city". 
The Bamboo Forest project is primarily for Asia. The author proposes to enclose the building with permanent bamboo scaffolding as an additional reinforcement in case of an earthquake. Another advantage of this project is the possibility of growing vertical gardens. 
An abstract structure that the author proposes to build in Hong Kong and use as a water tower, a station for urban transport and living quarters. 
Skyscraper "Superfilter", which will "inhale" carbon dioxide and other harmful gases and "exhale" concentrated oxygen. 
A giant umbrella-shaped structure that generates “green” energy. 
In the event of a strong earthquake, this building, instead of collapsing, will sink into unstable ground. 
Project for large cities. Designed to accommodate as many residents as possible right at the site of important transport hubs. 
"Sky Village" is a project for Los Angeles. Connects several districts of the city. 
The author of this underground project proposes to reconstruct an abandoned mine in Lubumbashi (Congo) for university buildings. 
The "Blossoming Tower" is proposed to be built in Malaysia. It will house a sculpture park, an open-air museum, a rooftop cafe and much more. 
This underwater structure will act as a drainage hole to absorb debris floating on the ocean surface. 
An urban structure that can regenerate groundwater. 
Another “green” project, the idea of \u200b\u200bwhich is to optimize the use of soil and biomass. 
The multi-arch project is an attempt to blend the classic and the modern in historic Chicago. 
Established in 2006, the annual Best Skyscraper Competition is one of the most prestigious awards in the world for high-rise architecture. The idea of \u200b\u200bthe competition is to recognize outstanding ideas that consider the design of a skyscraper through the introduction of new technologies and methods to solve the economic, social and cultural problems of a modern city, taking into account the scarcity of natural resources and infrastructure, population growth, pollution and unplanned urbanization. The aim of the competition is to explore the relationship between skyscraper and the natural world, skyscraper and community, and skyscraper and city.
First place - skyscraper LO2P
Conceived as a giant turbine, the LO2P skyscraper will be located in New Delhi, one of the most polluted cities in the world, due to exponential growth in population and cars. The idea behind this skyscraper is to recycle old cars and use them as building material for a new structure. The building is designed as giant lungs that will purify New Delhi's air through a series of large-scale greenhouses that serve as filters to trap suspended air particles. The processed heat and carbon dioxide will be used to grow biofuel plants.
Skyscraper LO2P
Second place - Flat Tower
Flat Tower is a new high-density typology that deviates from the traditional skyscraper. The building is based on a mid-rise dome structure that covers a large area while maintaining its beauty and previous function. The dome is perforated like a cage with skylights that provide direct sunlight to the interior. The large surface area of \u200b\u200bthe dome is designed to collect rainwater and solar energy. Residential and office premises are planned on the upper floors, and retail and entertainment infrastructures on the lower floors. An automated transport system will connect all parts of the building. The project can be used in any medium to large city, although it was designed for the old industrial area of \u200b\u200bthe city of Rennes in France.
Third place - Re-imagining the hoover dam
The current amenities of the world famous Hoover Dam in the United States consist of an observation deck, bridge, and gallery scattered on either side of the dam. This project aims to rebuild this structure by merging them into a single vertical super structure with the addition of a vertical aquarium and gallery.
Re-imagining the hoover dam
NeoTax
NeoTax is a three-dimensional network infrastructure formed in horizontal and vertical planes. The network is based on a system of modules, which can be viewed as separate quarters or districts, and suggests the possibility of adding new modules.
NeoTax
PoroCity
PoroCity is a project to reorganize and rehabilitate the Dharavi area, Mumbai, India, one of the largest slums in the world. The design is based on the rectangular Sierpinski pyramid. The building consists of blocks, divided by 3x9 meters, forming housing compartments with terraces, which will also house businesses, offices, educational institutions, shopping and medical centers. It will be possible to move around on lifts, escalators and funiculars moving in different planes.
Tower for the Dead - Tower of the Dead
Given the overcrowding and lack of land, this project involves the construction of an underground vertical cemetery for Mexico City, where family members of the deceased can descend to honor the memory.
Tower for the dead
Fish tower
The Fish Tower is the prototype for a vertical fish farm that could be 30 times more efficient than traditional farms. It is assumed that there will be a fish market on the lower level. At the middle levels, fish farms will be located, which are developed on the basis of research and analysis of the residence of specific fish species. And on the upper levels there are research laboratories where new technologies will be tested to achieve the productivity of 600 traditional fish farms at 20 levels.
Fish tower
Sport Tower - Sports Tower
This project offers a vertical complex that integrates various sports facilities in one place.
Sport Tower
RE: pH - Coastscraper
At the heart of the coastal skyscraper concept is to reduce the acidity of the oceans by adding fossilized coccolithophorids (white chalk) to the water. The best location for the project is South East England with a huge geological strip of white chalk stretching from the outskirts of London to the White Cliffs of Dover.
RE: pH - Coastscraper
Iceberg autonomy
Iceberg autonomy is a "sea scraper", a drifting enclave containing reservoirs and oil separators and engaged in the offshore mining industry.
Iceberg autonomy
Tourist City Skyscraper
The Tourist City is a group of megastructures in Cancun, Mexico that will eliminate unplanned urbanization and restore the natural landscape.
Tourist City Skyscraper
Rhizome Tower
The Rhizome Tower - thousands of underground plateaus suggests the creation of an underground city. It is a response to dramatic climate change and other environmental disasters. The main idea is to develop a "earth scraper" that uses underground and surface resources , creating a new typology of life. The project is divided into four different levels, organized around a central core. The first layer is above the surface, which will house agricultural farms, food production and recreational facilities. The entire façade is covered with a solar photovoltaic cell, and individual sections are also equipped with wind turbines. The second layer, on about 60 levels, is a residential area with a range of different living spaces to match the size of the family. The third and fourth layers are used as service areas and offices, along with the deepest part of the project devoted to the study and collection of geothermal energy.
Rhizome Tower
Borough no. 6
District 6 - New York. Situated above the existing cityscape, this building occupies the space between 22nd and 14th streets and 6th and 7th avenues in New York. The size of the structure creates interdependence and allows for the formation of a new community within an already dense development. Woven into the fabric of residential buildings, large office towers provide a workplace for the residents of the structure. These towers are deployed to create a public park high above the city, for public access to nature.
Borough no. 6
Singapore's Waterfront
The proposed building is located on Singapore's waterfront and will serve as a complement to the existing financial districts. Given Singapore's climate and water scarcity, the design focus is on creating strategies for the use of natural ventilation, rainwater and sunlight. The tower is tilted 20 degrees towards the embankment. In addition, the project aims to create the perfect home with its own garden, very close to the center of Singapore. The base, which resembles an area with rich vegetation, forms two outdoor swimming pools, squares, sports facilities.
Singapore's Waterfront
Moonscraper
A lunar skyscraper is planned to be built on the outskirts of Shackleton Crater at the Moon's South Pole.
Moonscraper
Floating Olympic Complex
The main idea behind the Wandering Olympic Complex is to create vertical, inverted skyscrapers that will serve as a host during the games, and later transformed into a floating city with residential buildings, recreation areas, offices and other infrastructures. This project is supposed to be implemented at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.
Floating Olympic Complex
The world's tallest skyscraper is under construction April 18th, 2013
A couple of years ago, they wrote on the Internet about two projects of kilometer-long skyscrapers - Nakheel Tower in Dubai and Mubarak al Kabir Tower in Kuwait. However, the Dubai project was canceled due to the crisis of the Nakheel group, and the Kuwait project was stuck at the stage of negotiations with the government.
However, a kilometer-high building will be erected on our planet in the near future. Back in 2011, it became known that Kingdom Holding, owned by the Saudi prince Alwaleed bin Talal, signed a contract for the construction of the Kingdom Tower skyscraper in Saudi Arabia, whose height will exceed 1000 meters.
The tallest skyscraper in the world - Kingdom tower will rise more than 1 km. over the city of Jeddah, off the coast of the Red Sea. The tower will include hotels, residential apartments, offices and the world's tallest observation deck. Adrian Smith was appointed the chief architect of the project, he also designed Burj Khalifa, as well as a number of other skyscrapers in the USA, China and the UAE (see his website) Prisoner Amount Kingdom holdingthe contract is valued at $ 1.2 billion. Kingdom towerwill become the central and first stage of the district's construction Kingdom city, in the construction of which the Saudi prince is ready to invest a total of $ 20 billion.
Upon completion of construction, which will take 5 years, Kingdom tower it will surpass the current record-holder Burj Khalifa by at least 173 meters. Unique design feature Kingdom tower will be a heavenly terrace with a diameter of 30 meters, located at the 157th floor. All in all, the tallest skyscraper in the world will have more than 200 floors. The start of construction is scheduled for March 2012.
It is known that the main problem of such grandiose projects is their payback. At a press conference in Riyadh Prince Alwaleed assured that "this project will generate sustainable profits Kingdom holding and its shareholders. We have been in discussions for four years to make it economically viable ... This project is quite real, and everyone is happy with its potential profitability. "
From the top of the tower, an area within a radius of about 140 km will be visible. It is assumed that the satellite city will consist mainly of luxury housing, hotels and business centers.
An architectural highlight will be a saucer balcony:
In whatever country this building is erected, the construction of a man-made structure, more than 1 kilometer in height, is an important achievement that speaks of a considerable technical progress of all mankind.
The data project as wellwill be handled by a joint organization of EC Harris and Mace. The Guardian newspaper reports that this particular team was involved in the construction of the tallest building in Western Europe - The Shard. This is the Shard Tower in London.
Directly by ourselves construction will be handled by the Bin Laden Group, which is owned by the Osama bin Laden family. Invest kingdom Tower construction will be the Jeddah Economic company, which is under the control of Alwaleed bin Talalu (Prince of Saudi Arabia). According to plan construction of the Kingdom Tower skyscraper should start in the middle of this year and end in five years.
The project developer is the British company Hyder Consulting, the architectural project will be carried out by the firm Omrania & Associates from Saudi Arabia.
In April 2011, several news agencies reported that the construction plan had been adopted and the total cost of the construction would be about $ 30 billion.
The total cost of the project, including the satellite city, is estimated to be US $ 20 billion (for comparison: the construction cost of the Burj Khalifa, the tallest skyscraper at the moment, is US $ 1.5 billion), but the amount was originally planned to be no more than US $ 10 billion.
Opened in 2010, the 828-meter Burj Khalifa in Dubai has become the tallest building on the planet, a symbol of the triumph of engineering genius. But not for long is she destined to be a record holder. In different parts of the Earth, preparations for the construction of even more tall and complex skyscrapers, each of which has a height at least a kilometer.
Sky City. China
The Sky City tower, although it will have a height of a little less than a kilometer, but this project is likely to be the first to break the record of the Burj Khalifa with its 828 meters from the base to the top of the spire. The project provides for the construction of a stepped 838-meter tower in the Chinese city of Changsha, on the 202 floors of which there will be residential apartments, hotels, educational institutions, hospitals, offices, shops.
But what is interesting is not so much the record height of Sky City, but the incredibly fast pace of construction of this building. The Broad Sustainable Building company, which will build it, is world renowned for taking just a few days. She plans to build this skyscraper in just 90 days plus 120 days of site preparation for construction.
The construction of this skyscraper was supposed to begin in the summer of 2013, but has so far been postponed. True, the preparatory work on the site at the site where Sky City will grow is gradually proceeding.
Azerbaijan Tower. Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan also wants to build the tallest skyscraper in the world. Growing revenues from the sale of oil and gas make it possible to implement very large social and infrastructural objects in this country, for example, the construction of the Khazar Islands artificial archipelago, the high-rise dominant of which will be a 1050-meter tower.
The construction of the archipelago began several years ago. Now the first public, residential and office buildings have been built on it, and the construction of the Azerbaijan Tower itself will begin, as expected, in 2015.
Investors of the project promise to commission the Azerbaijan Tower building in 2019, and finish the entire artificial archipelago by 2020.
Kingdom Tower. Saudi Arabia
Still, most of the projects for ultra-tall buildings are planned to be implemented in wealthy Arab countries. For example, Saudi Arabia lives on the idea of \u200b\u200berecting the tallest building in the world - the Burj Khalifa haunts them in the neighboring United Arab Emirates.
Construction of the Kingdom Tower skyscraper began in 2013 in the city of Jeddah. The height of this 167-storey building will be just over 1000 meters. The exact data are still unknown - they will appear only after the facility is put into operation. Investors are afraid to publicize them, fearing that someone will build a structure just a few meters higher and break the record.
Kingdom Tower will become the centerpiece of the multi-functional Kingdom Center, an entire city of residential, office, hotel, retail and entertainment facilities with a total value of $ 20 billion.
Madinat al-Hareer. Kuwait
They want to build a kilometer-long skyscraper in Kuwait. In June 2014, the project for a building called Madinat al-Hareer, which will be 1001 meters high, was finally approved there.
The name "Madinat al-Hareer" translates as "Silk City", which hints at the glorious history of Kuwait during the days when it was one of the world's centers of silk trade. It was originally planned that this skyscraper will be built by 2016, but, apparently, this term will be postponed by at least two years.
Dubai City Tower. United Arab Emirates
Dubai looks at the projects listed above with apprehension - in the very near future they may break the high-altitude record of the Burj Dubai skyscraper. But, on the other hand, in this city they don't sit with folded hands. There, work is in full swing on the design of the world's first two-kilometer building.
The Eiffel Tower was taken as the basis for the construction of Dubai City Tower. But the size of this Arab skyscraper will be seven and a half times larger than that of the French prototype. The height of the future tower will be 2,400 meters.
The 400 floors of the Dubai City Tower will be interconnected not only by elevators, but also by a vertical train that can travel at a speed of 200 kilometers per hour and deliver people from the lower floor to the upper one in a matter of seconds.
Investors and creators of the Dubai City Tower project expect it to be operational in 2025. The construction estimate was not disclosed.
10 KL118
At the moment, the Petronas Twin Towers in Malaysia are worthily occupying the eighth place in the list of the 10 tallest buildings in the world (451.9 meters). However, in 2021, a new attraction in Kuala Lumpur is expected - the KL118 Tower. This skyscraper will be built in the city center next to the indoor arena Stadium Negara and within walking distance of Chinatown and Masjid Jamek. The tower is designed by PNB Merdeka, and within the framework of the project, 118 floors and 400 thousand m2 of housing will be built. Of the 118 floors, 100 will be occupied by office space, the rest are planned to be used as a hotel and a hotel residence. Upon completion, the skyscraper will rise 630 meters.
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The Changcun World Trade Center skyscraper is still at the project stage. Earlier it was planned to build the building in 2017, but at the moment the construction is temporarily frozen.
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Wuhan Greenland Center is a 636-meter, 125-story skyscraper under construction in Wuhan, China. Should be one of the three tallest in China. In June 2011, Adrian Smith's architectural firm, together with Thornton Tomasetti Engineers, won a tender to build this building for the Greenland Group. The tower design offers a number of innovations to reduce energy consumption. The height of the building during the design process was increased to 636 meters, the expected completion date was postponed to 2018.
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In the architecture of the building, you can see the numbers symbolizing the date of the declaration of independence of Indonesia - August 17, 1945. So the building will have 17 illuminated petals on each side, 8 ventilation towers at the base of the spire, and the spire itself will be 45 meters high. The skyscraper will be the tallest in Indonesia.
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Wuhan CTF Center is a 648 meter high skyscraper located along the Wuhan business district, Hubei province, China. The building will house office space and become part of the Wuhan Chow Tai Fook Financial Center, which will also include four residential areas, a three-story retail space and parking.
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The Tien Fu Center in Chengdu will be the tallest building in China with a known construction date. So far, there is no data on how the skyscraper will be used and functioned.
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The tallest skyscraper in Malaysia, the completion of which is scheduled for 2020. The height of the eastern tower of the city center of Kuala Lumpur will be 700 meters, the number of floors - 145.
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Dubai One Tower is a megaton skyscraper in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. At 711 meters, it will become the tallest residential building in the world and the 4th tallest building in the world upon completion. Mohammed Ibn Rashid Al Maktoum, Emir of Dubai, laid the foundation for the construction of an associated shopping center.
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Suzhou Zhongnan Center is a 729-meter, 137-storey skyscraper under construction in the Suzhou Industrial Park in Suzhou, China. Should be the first tallest in China and the second (or third) in the world. Construction began in 2014 and is scheduled for completion in 2020. The multifunctional center with a useful area of \u200b\u200babout 500 thousand m 2 will include a hotel (276 rooms), office and residential (706 apartments) premises and 93 elevators.
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Jeddah Tower, formerly known as Kingdom Tower and Mile-High Tower, is one of the tallest buildings in the world. Under construction 32 km north of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Skyscraper with a preliminary cost of $ 1.23 billion; for comparison: the construction cost of the Burj Khalifa skyscraper is $ 1.5 billion) and a height of 1008 meters should become the center of the new Kingdom Center district, in which 80 thousand people will live. The total cost of the project, located on the shores of the Red Sea, should be $ 20 billion. Upon completion of construction, the building should become the tallest in the world and the first with a height of more than one kilometer. The first design of the building envisioned a height of about one mile, however, after soil analysis at the construction site, the height was reduced to one kilometer. The architect of the building is the architectural bureau of Adrian Smith, the initiator of the entire project is the Saudi prince Al-Walid bin Talal, one of the richest people in the Middle East and the nephew of the King of Saudi Arabia. Alwaleed is President of Kingdom Holding Company (KHC) Corporation, one of the largest in the country. The Jeddah Economic Company was specially created to finance the construction in 2009.
