![]() Plus, it isn’t every day that a building’s services come with cloud-making functions.Traditionally, the tallest buildings in urban regions can be found in their metropolitan core area, but moving forward, that will no longer be the case in Metro Vancouver, which is emerging as an outlier in the world.Īt least eight future towers are set to be taller than BC’s current tallest - Westbank’s Living Shangri-La in downtown Vancouver, which has a height of 659 ft (201 metres) with 57 storeys. This trio of skyscraper concepts does more than just provide a room with a view-they create a building with a noble purpose. Designers envision each of these timber modules being somewhat interconnected, allowing animals to roam throughout the structure. Modules in the skyscraper create space for the gardens and serve as a home for researchers to explore vertical gardening. The Agro-Ecological Skyscraper, the third-place winner by Michał Spólnik of Austria and Marcin Kitala of Poland, focuses on experimental gardens and features a timber skyscraper designed to appear like an upright pinecone. They act as desalination ports, converting energy from the ever-flowing tide. During normal times, the concrete supports do more than just hold lives above them. ![]() But when a tsunami strikes, the concrete column design is shaped to pair with water cisterns to limit the power of the tsunami before it strikes land. Inspired by mangroves and their intense root structures, this concept places the skyscraper on stilts in tidal areas of Tonga, even encouraging fishing from the buildings with platforms and terraces close to the water. The second-place concept was the Tsunami Park Skyscraper, designed by Wang Jue, Zhang Qian, Zhang Changsheng, Li Muchun, Xu Jing of China.
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