Concept Architecture

The winners of the 2024 eVolo Skyscraper Competition have been revealed. Featuring fantastical towers that range from the unlikely to the impossible, it offers a fascinating look at architectural ideas unconstrained by practicalities.

The Floating Glass Museum is the stunning result of a collaboration between an international team of architects and designers who, with the support of AI, have merged tradition and innovation to envision a traveling symbol of environmental awareness.

This year's winners of the eVolo Skyscraper Competition have been announced. Highlights include rotating affordable housing, an ocean-cleaning plastic skyscraper, and tree-like towers to help keep watch over the Amazon rainforest.

The built environment often has a negative impact on wildlife and the environment, but this international architecture competition turns design on its head and puts plants and animals in the spotlight. The results are simply breathtaking.

This year has certainly produced more than its fair share of unique architecture and we've decided it's high time to look back and highlight the best examples we've seen in 2022. Read on for our top 10 architectural oddities of 2022.

ZNera Space envisions encircling the world's tallest building with a massive circular structure named the Downtown Circle. The mixed-use building would create a new neighborhood in the sky for Dubai at an impressive height of 550 m.

The winners of the eVolo Skyscraper Competition have been announced. Featuring a climate-controlling tower and tsunami-resistant high-rises, plus a food-producing tower, it offers a look at architectural design unconstrained by practicalities.

When downsizing to a tiny house, a deck or porch can be a great way to increase living space. Atelier Fasea leans into this idea with its neat tiny house concept, which features operable walls that open up the home and turn into pair of deck areas.

NYC-based designer Joe Doucet doesn't see why renewable energy generation shouldn't actively make a home more beautiful, so he's putting together a series of "kinetic walls" using rotary wind turbines to achieve some hypnotic visual effects.

An intriguing proposal from Skidmore, Owings & Merrill imagines a skyscraper that could capture carbon and actually purify the air around it. The Urban Sequoia concept was created to mark the recent UN COP26 Climate Change Conference in Scotland.

Commissioned to design a sustainable floating hotel, Margot Krasojević Architects produces a proposal that's unconstrained by practicalities. The designer envisions making use of the massive amounts of plastic in the ocean as a building material.

The eVolo Skyscraper Competition is one of the most thought-provoking contests around. Small on detail, but big on wild ideas, this year's winners include GM trees that serves as a living skyscraper and a water collecting tower.