This proposal for EVOLO’s 2020 skyscraper competition was designed by 3A students Byron Cai, Chi Un Lee and Annie Wang. As the palm oil industry struggles to meet zero carbon emission and deforestation targets without halting economic activity, RE: Forest 2020 suggests a solution. The skyscraper acts as an “artificial lung” that harvests forests and captures carbon dioxide, while maintaining Indonesia’s palm oil industry.
Helsinki is an international city built on an intimate scale. Through harsh winters and heavy monsoons, Helsinki has become a city of interiors. Its society blooms indoors. This proposal for HelsinkiCall: The Design House competition, designed by Lyric Barnik, embraces this quality. It provides opportunities for cultural and artistic exchange. It borrows elements from the vernacular of the countryside, the ubiquity of the sauna and the evolution of Helsinki as a city. Form The form...
The University of Waterloo’s Hyperloop student team, “Waterloop,” is advancing to the final round of the SpaceX competition. The team includes students from Architecture, Engineering, and Physics. This August, the team will bring their built pod design prototype to be tested on a one-mile track outside of SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California.
This past winter, an international ideas competition was launched to develop creative ways of reimagining the 5km-long hydro corridor that cuts across Toronto from Davenport Village to the Annex. Called The Green Line, the focus of the competition is to find a unified vision for further development of the site and to create a dialogue about the potential of hydro corridors in urban situations universally. Of the 77 entries in this open call, two teams...
Tony Shi (3A) received an honourable mention for his design of the Tokyo Replay Centre in a competition hosted by ArchMedium , an architectural competition site for students. The challenge was to design a recreational centre in the Akihabara, a central district of Tokyo. The center would need to encompass the lifestyle of Japanese society, while focusing on the theme of entertainment. The best technology would be used to include karaoke, anime, manga and video games within the...