Friday, May 3, 2013 - 1:43pm
Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture have won Mumbai's Imperial Tower competition with a 116-story, 400-meter-tall building that could tower over the city.
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Sunday, April 8, 2012 - 11:20pm
Massive Lego creations are always cool, but none is cooler than this incredible collection of the world's tallest skyscrapers recreated using a grand total of more than 15.5 million Lego blocks.
Friday, October 15, 2010 - 6:00am
Matthew Fromboluti's project "Above Below" proposes building a subterranean
skyscraper in the gaping chasm that used to be the Lavender Pit Mine. At 900 feet deep and almost 300 acres wide, this hole in the desert outside of Bisbee, Arizona is apparently a great place to build a self-sustaining community. Fromboluti's design includes plans for living and working space, in addition to parks and areas for farming.
Wednesday, July 28, 2010 - 5:18pm
Anyone who has played Jenga, knows that even the tiniest mistake can bring the whole tower crashing down. So I would be kind of nervous about moving into a giant life-sized Jenga like apartment tower.
Saturday, June 26, 2010 - 10:12am
Most cities use lots of regular old fashioned trees to help clean the air, but doesn't stop people from dreaming up higher-tech solutions. This giant concrete skyscraper from Czech architects Pavlína Doležalová and Jan Smékal is covered with pollution scrubbing...
Thursday, December 10, 2009 - 5:52pm
You may remember MAD Architects from their equally mad designs, such as this star-shaped floating city. Now they've got the wobbly-looking, 1,250-foot-high Urban Forest for Chongqing, China that does away with the traditional walled skyscraper for one that's a series...
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009 - 10:26am
When the Eye of Sauron Lotte Super Tower 123 is completed in South Korea in 2014, it will be rivaled in height only by the insane Burj Dubai, which stands 2,684 feet to the Super Tower's impressive 1,821 feet. It's...
Monday, February 9, 2009 - 11:48am
This skyscraper isn't designed to hold offices or apartments. No, instead this towering monstrosity is built to undo the damage done by all the other buildings around. Think of it like a gigantic filter for the sky. The CO2 Scraper...
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Wednesday, December 3, 2008 - 2:52pm
In a city full of steel and glass, a green tower like the 54-story skyscraper proposed by architect Daniel Libeskind — who won a bid to be the overseeing architect for the World Trade Center reconstruction — would certainly...
Wednesday, October 15, 2008 - 12:27pm
Singapore's upcoming EDITT Tower, or the "Ecological Design In The Tropics" Tower, is green inside and out. Designed by the architects at TR Hamzah & Yeang and sponsored by the National University of Singapore, the 26-story structure features a...
