Nothing elicits more interesting ideas and visuals than a futuristic and visionary design competition for the 21st Century Skyscraper. That has one word: eVolo. I featured a few of the entries from last years competition – so thought I would do the same for the more veg.itectural (and there are many, as pointed out in Pruned in the form of the vegetal zeitgeist) of this years entries. What better way to get a pulse on the trends in architecture, landscape and urbanism? Click the image links for the full boards, and check out the remaining entries from this and previous years at the eVolo site.

FIRST PLACE – NeoARC
by Kyu Ho Chun – Kenta Fukunishi – JaeYoung Lee

:: images via eVolo

SECOND PLACE – The Living Bridge

by Nicola Marchi – Adelaïde Marchi

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SPECIAL MENTIONS

BioCity

by Stefan Shaw – John Dent

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Nature of Nature
by Luis Longhi – Christian Bottger – Carla Tamariz

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Standing on the Ground

by Park Ju Sin – Lee Min Cheol

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Farm3
by Fabrice Henninger – Alexander Dabringhausen

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Urban Nebulizer
by Jae Kyu Han – Sang Mi Park – Ji Hyun KimWoo – Young Park – Kyoung Ho Lee

:: images via eVolo

ADDENDA

Finally, our friends at Urbanarbolismo garnered some acclaim as one of the 40 finalists to be published with their proposal for a cadre of tree-derived towers in the Mediterranean climate of the city of Benidorm. Read the full scoop at their site (translation here).

:: images via Urbanarbolismo