The Beaming Architecture

The cutting-edge architecture is often virtually provocative, challenging conventional stylistics and design methodologies. Charles Jencks, the renowned chronographer of architecture states that the new forms might look repellent evoking suspicion about dilettantism of authors, but on close examining these could appear to be much exciting and relevant to our apperception, rather than endless colonnades of the past or modernist glass curtain walls. The matter of innovation becomes even more dramatic, if we speak about tall structures, which silhouettes essentially constitute the urban skyline.     

In 2006, the eVolo Magazine launched its annual Skyscraper Competition aimed at highlighting of the most thoroughgoing highrise concepts. Established in 2006 by the eVolo Magazine, the Skyscraper Competition recognizes outstanding ideas that redefine skyscraper design through use of new technologies, materials, programs, aesthetics and spatial arrangement, along with studies on globalization, flexibility, adaptability, and the digital revolution.

This is also an investigation on the public and private space and the role of the individual and the collective in the creation of dynamic and adaptive vertical community. The award seeks to discover young talent, whose ideas will change the way we understand architecture and its relationship with the natural and built environments. Reconciling architectural, intellectual, economic and environmental issues presume no site, height or shape restrictions.

The idea of this award is to unleash the designers endeavoring creative and innovative spirit at accepting these challenges. The Skyscraper Competition has already become a significant international architectural event. In 2010, among 430 entries from 42 countries the Jury selected 3 winners and 27 special mentions, including the SkySaver submitted by the Russian Mezonproject studio

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Text by Nina Nasonova,
information provided by Mezonproject