New York's skyscrapers are some of the largest contributors to the City's greenhouse gas emissions, but they can be re-conceived to efficiently use energy with passivedesign strategies, and actively generate electricity. As the City moves beyond mandates to a near zero greenhou...
It's very fascinating and easy now. Imagine the future New York City, about 100 years of now. It's full of flying vehicles which moves through traffic lanes set at multiple levels rising up between the imposing skyscrapers with elevators and flickering lights. The high-velocity trains crosses...
In this volume, Bruce Sterling describes four possible futures that might shape future towers, presenting a choose-your-own-adventure of potential futures for architecture, some of them terrifying in their nearness. We peer up at skyscrapers old and new, visit their highest floors, turn them this...
Building from the ground up is so last century. Skyscrapers of the future could very well hang from an asteroid placed into orbit over Earth, suspended over a landscape their occupants parachute down to as part of their commute home. Sound bonkers? Wackadoo? Out of this world?Popular Mechanic...
(The Economist), title=Revenge of the nerds, passage=Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Itsfuture, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans ...
In this article, we explore the pros and cons of skyscrapers and how architects are responding to global challenges with respect to high-rise buildings.
Future cities could include pancake-shaped buildings, power plants that harvest lightning and ocean-based skyscrapers that produce potable water and clean up trash. Those are some of the visions in the 2011 eVolo Skyscraper Competition, a forum for futuristic — and even fantastical — ideas for ...
Standing at the centre of the city of the future, towering above you, are hundreds of floors of solid steel, glass and timber. Gleaming are the record-tall skyscrapers of the great African cities, of Lagos or Nairobi; the Asian cities of Jakarta, Delhi and Mumbai or any of the other my...
The World Trade Center in New York 1350 feet high and Chicago’s Sears Tower 1450 feet high. No one can say how much higher skyscrapers will go in the future. Early skyscrapers were built with thick heavy walls of solid brick stone or concrete. Now the new skyscrapers are built with a ...
I would begin with security,” he said. “How do you keep insects and bacteria from invading your crops?” He says growing food in climate-controlled skyscrapers would also protect against hail and other weather-related hazards, ensuring a higher quality food supply for a city, without pesticid...