| Description |
627 pages. : colour. illustrations., plans ; 31 cm |
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eVolo Skyscrapers ; 2 |
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eVolo Skyscrapers ; 2
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| Contents |
Technological advances : Unit fusion ; Migrant skyscraper ; Psudoberg ; The epiphyte tower ; God bless Africa ; Sanctum ; Volcanelectric mask ; Tindeo ; Soundscraper ; Magnetic cloud ; Break breathe tower ; Big wood ; Zero ; Polar umbrella ; Arctic Datascraper ; In Charybodis waterscraper ; The Beijing haze-scraper ; Biotic-tech skyscraper city ; Housing the cloud ; Crystallize ; Flight energy tower ; Saharan caravanserai ; HPV architecture project ; Sui tower -- Ecological urbanism : The Himalayan water tower ; Detoxcity ; The Dutch defender ; Earth0shaped city ; Mountain Band-Aid ; The anti-building ; Landscaped insertion ; Noah's Ark ; O3 healer ; Condensation conservancy ; Tower 3 Agrópolis ; Gaplant ; Urban earth worm ; Water re-balance ; Migratory bird tower ; Aquaponic tower ; Land buoyer ; PH conditioner ; Inhabited layer ; Worldwide dam ; Phoenix ; Around a void ; Kapla-sky ; Vertical framing ; Coal city ; Silo park -- New frontiers : Ocean-scraper ; House of Babel ; Plastic fish tower ; Volcanic-scraper ; Shipbreaking tower ; Heaven and earth ; Awaroa Lighthouse; SED ; Citadel skyscraper ; Mahameru project ; Waterfall city ; Hang-rise building ; E-spire ; Repair goaf ; Kinetic islands ; Sea-TY ; Aerogenesis ; Nomad ; Moses ; The scraper ; Horizontal skyscraper ; Martian ring ; Columbarium skyscraper ; Mist tree -- Social solutions ; Occupy skyscraper ; Structure of human rights ; Intervention ; Monument of civilization ; Bucky Fuller ; Occupy Manhattan sky ; Bridge of hope ; Fed-scraper ; Tower of Babel ; Scrap skyscraper ; Spineless skyscraper ; Skyscraper of liberation ; Burj SANA'A ; Hutong manifesto ; Rehab tower ; Symbiocity ; New Makoko ; One home for all the homeless ; From warfare to rebirth ; The promised land ; Invisible wall ; Hanging tower ; Symbiosis city ; Tower of eternity ; Tower to the heaven -- Morphotectonic aesthetics : Double life ; Biotope ; Urban nomadic scaffolding ; Noise reduction tower ; Tehran tower ; Inverticity ; Tubular urbanism ; Doomsday green ; Vertical ground ; Radio tower II ; New urbanism ; DNAgriculture ; Post-sustainable timberscraper ; The linear coastal city ; The rack ; Formal attire ; Paksan ; Phobia skyscraper ; Tuvalu in 2050 ; Quantum skyscraper ; Another brick in the wall ; Skinscape ; Heterogeneous tower ; Disappeared tsunami -- Urban theories & strategies : Smartscraper ; Social equilibrium ; St. Petersburg mega bridge ; Tundra center ; Air@port ; Ants and elephant ; Bridge for a commune ; Village in the arch ; Urban forest ; Mass skyscraper ; The grid wall ; Mutating sky city ; Coexistence ; Linear skyscraper ; Cube society ; Crater scraper ; Light park ; The vertical country ; Wallscraper ; Infinitecity ; Psycho ; Tower+ ; Pangea skyscraper ; Sphera ; Yin-yang ; Rehabilitation tower |
| Summary |
This publication is the follow-up to the highly acclaimed book eVolo Skyscrapers. 150 new skyscrapers submitted to the eVolo Skyscraper Competition are categorized and examined. These super-tall structures take into consideration the advances in technology, the exploration of sustainable systems, and the establishment of new urban and architectural methods to solve economic, social, and cultural problems of the contemporary city; including the scarcity of natural resources and infrastructure and the exponential increase of inhabitants, pollution, economic division, and unplanned urban sprawl |
| Subject |
Architecture, Modern -- 21st century.
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Skyscrapers -- Designs and plans.
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Tall buildings -- Competitions.
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Visionary architecture.
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| Genre/Form |
Architectural drawings.
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| Author |
Aiello, Carlo (Architect), editor
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Aldridge, Paul, editor
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Arzate, Carlos, editor
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| ISBN |
193874005X |
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9781938740053 |
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