Architecture: Research Guide

Editors’ Choice 2024 Skyscraper Competition Cheng Qian,Zitong Song,Yingjiao Zheng,Le Bai,Jixi Hou China Based on the impact of ocean currents on Marine life, the site was chosen for the construction in the Sea of Japan on the western coast of the Pacific Ocean. Designed a three-dimensional farm and seawater purification building for a site near the […]

Editors’ Choice 2024 Skyscraper Competition Taoning Wen,Jaoning Zhang,Yuchen Zhang China Earth is the cradle of humanity, but humans cannot live in the cradle forever. The Earth’s ecosystem is just a speck in the vast ocean of the universe, small and fragile. Global climate change, rising sea levels, widespread infectious diseases, and even nuclear war… These […]

Editors’ Choice 2024 Skyscraper Competition Lisa Suen, Youda Li, Yunxiao Ju, Linxin Wu, Ziyi Wang China, Sweden The Horn of Africa is facing a severe food crisis, and in 2023, the Horn of Africa experienced six consecutive rainy seasons without rainfall, resulting in a massive reduction in crop yields and is experiencing the worst drought […]

Editors’ Choice 2025 Skyscraper Competition Kim Min Sung, Kim Jun Ryeun, Park Do Hyun South Korea People rush to London. To accommodate everyone that has gushed into already saturated London, it modified its established density system. This naturally leads to an increase of floor space index and a redevelopment plan starting with old urban center […]

2024 Skyscraper Competition Editors’ Choice Hamed Ahaki Lake, Seyedeh Fatemeh Mirmousavi,Seyed Hooman Heravi Talemi,Vahid Nazari Kangavari Iran Imagine a towering skyscraper, not just a monument of glass and steel, but a living, breathing organism. This is the vision of future cities built within colossal skyscrapers, inspired by the human nervous system and constructed using 3D […]

Editors’ Choice 2023 Skyscraper Competition Yang Zhao, Shi Qiu United States Traditional Asian Community has evolved for thousands of years with its own strong characteristics and deep meaning of social relationships that work for Asian people the best. As we all know, Asians like to live gregariously. One of the underlying reasons is that the […]

Editors’ Choice 2023 Skyscraper Competition Zhaoxu Huang China Desertification is a phenomenon that the dry land ecosystems is constantly degraded due to the influence of climate and human activities. With the continuous progress of global industrialization, surface vegetation has been continuously destroyed, and persistent desertification threatens the poorest population in the world and the prospect […]

Editors’ Choice 2023 Skyscraper Competition Runze Wu,Jingkun Sun,Jingyi Liang,Liying Yang, Yizhuo Dai,Pengyu Chen China Itaewon is a famous local business district and a bar street in Yongsan-gu, Seoul, South Korea, which is usually very popular on weekends. on the night of October 29, 2022，More than 150 people died in a mass stampede at Itaewon，Local media […]

Editors’ Choice 2023 Skyscraper Competition Fan Yiming,Wang Yue,He Kai China The threat of desertification is a global problem, which is directly manifested by the loss of productive land, the movement of sand dunes and dust storms. According to the data of IPCC, desertification now covers 46.2% of the global geographical area. It can be seen […]

Architects and designers love a great sketching pencil and a great fountain pen. These are the main tools used to quickly communicate and pin down ideas. Drawings remain the genesis of ideas, which are later developed with the use of computer software. In the world of fountain pens, there are very few options for a […]

Editors’ Choice 2023 Skyscraper Competition Bartosz Pszczółkowski Poland We live in a world of connections. A world of relational networks designed to ensure security and peace in a reality in which the decisions of individuals can determine the fate of millions of people. In the light of recent events in eastern Europe or prior ones […]

  Editors’ Choice 2023 Skyscraper Competition Kai Tang,Qingxiang Li,Songjiang Han,Yonglei Li,Xinyi Li China   In the context of global warming and the increasing variability and diversity of skyscrapers, we ask two questions: Can people’s sustainable vision of the natural environment be achieved simply by using traditional models to regulate climate change? Is the variability of […]

Editors’ Choice 2023 Skyscraper Competition CannonDesign Chris Soria,Sharon Mathew,Steffany Brady,Stefania Ingaramo,Aimee Platt,Chun-Tien Kuo,Brandon Geiger United States A Brave New World The year 4023 presents a new reality for our planet and our human race. The irreversible effects of a warming planet have taken its toll on our ecosystem. Land has given way to water, which […]

Editors’ Choice 2023 Skyscraper Competition Kael Samake,Saijeeni Elangko,Faye Bonifacio Canada The Sahel is a geographic region that runs across the African continent. It is the border between the Sahara Desert to the north and the tropics to the south. The indigenous baobab tree is the heart of African tradition and folklore. Referred to as the […]

Editors’ Choice 2023 Skyscraper Competition Ho Sze Yin Hong Kong Hong Kong is a densely populated city. As of 2023, the population density of Hong Kong has amounted to 110.98 times more than that of the world’s average. Moreover, its total population is forecasted to increase by 7% to 8.1 million by the year of […]

A good pen is one of the most important tools that an architect or a designer need. There is one particular pen made by Pilot Pen Company in Japan that has a cult following around the world. We are talking about the legendary Hi-Tec-C gel ink pen, which is admired for its smooth writing experience, […]

2022 Skyscraper Competition Editors’ Choice Yue Sun, Jie Zhou, Jingjing Fang, Xin Song China Aging society refers to the population structure model in which the elderly population reaches or exceeds a certain proportion in the total population. According to the standard of the United Nations, if the population of a country or region over 60 […]

2022 Skyscraper Competition Editors’ Choice Zainah M. Bagaber Saudi Arabia The ‘reversed future’ proposal is designed in response to the global issue of destruction natural landscapes in cities due to the rapid growth in populations, leading to high demands for residential lands. This issue causes multiple problems, including climate change, increased pollutions and desertification. The […]

2022 Skyscraper Competition Editors’ Choice Jerry Woo,Chujin Xue China Just as mankind are confused about the direction of development, a future of nature that science failed to foresee come quietly. With more than 70% of the land on the planet covered with sand and sea level rising sharply, the only moderate land left cannot support […]

2022 Skyscraper Competition Editors’ Choice Yuqi Tian,Chenxi Ge,Yining Xu,Jiani Wu China   The design site is located in Bangladesh. Due to the abundant rainfall and massive rivers which can be easily influenced by monsoon, there are often storms and floods caused by excessive surface runoff which causes great damage to the ground buildings and cultivated […]

2022 Skyscraper Competition Editors’ Choice Do Thi Hong Nhung,Do Xuan Vu,Nguyen Trung Hieu Vietnam THE SITUATION IN VIETNAM Today, urbanization and industrialization in Vietnam has led to massive loss of natural and agricultural land (equal to the area of Singapore). This, in turn, has led people to losing jobs and real estate, breaking traditional architecture […]

2022 Skyscraper Competition Editors’ Choice Yunhan Wang,Charles Tzu Wei Chiang Taiwan With rapid population growth and global warming, many countries have suffered from water shortage in recent years. Nearly a third of the world’s population lives in “highly water-scarce” countries. This proposal is designed for Morocco city in Africa, where 80% of water had been […]