Winners of eVolo 2015 Skyscraper Competition

John Hill
1. aprile 2015
First Place: "Essence Skyscraper" (All images courtesy of eVolo Magazine)

The jury* selected 3 winners and 15 honorable mentions from the 480 projects submitted. Winners were selected, according to eVolo, "for their creativity, ingenuity, and understanding of dynamic and adaptive vertical communities."


First Place: "Essence Skyscraper"

First place was awarded to BOMP (Ewa Odyjas, Agnieszka Morga, Konrad Basan, and Jakub Pudo) from Poland for their project Essence Skyscraper: "The proposal is an urban mega-structure that contains diverse natural habitats. The skyscraper would serve as a place to briefly escape urban life  and stimulate diverse and complex experiences."

First Place: "Essence Skyscraper"

Second Place: "Shanty-Scraper"

Second place was awarded to Suraksha Bhatla and Sharan Sundar from India for their Shanty-Scraper: "The project seeks to provide housing, work and recreational spaces to the inhabitants of Chennai city’s slum in India. The skyscraper is designed to reutilize the city’s post-construction debris including pipes, corrugated metal sheets, timber, etc."

Second Place: "Shanty-Scraper"

Third Place: "Cybertopia"

Third place was awarded to Egor Orlov from Russia for the project Cybertopia: "The city of the future [is] the combination of digital and physical worlds – a city that grows and morphs instantly according to our needs."


More information and images on the winners and the honorable mentions can be found on eVolo's website.

*Jury: Massimiliano Fuksas (Studio Fuksas), Michael Hansmeyer (CAAD group at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology(, Richard Hassell (WOHA), Alvin Huang (Synthesis Design + Architecture), Yong Ju Lee (winner 2014 eVolo Skyscraper Competition), Wenchian Shi (MVRDV), Wong Mun Summ (WOHA), and Benedetta Tagliabue (EMBT Miralles Tagliabue).

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