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Editors’ Choice 2025 Skyscraper Competition Zhiyu Wei, Sixiao Li, Wei Deng, Yinye Chen, Tianyun Zhang China The current development of the world economy has led to uneven distribution of resources and unequal opportunities, forming a fixed class division and differentiated lifestyles. Each class is confronted with numerous problems at both the spatial and psychological levels. For this purpose, Elysium equalizer aims to promote class integration and is a vertical utopian experimental site.

Editors’ Choice 2025 Skyscraper Competition YiYing Zhou, Yang Pei, Shuwei Li, Jieliang Zhu, Bingxu Huo China In recent years, rapid urban and economic development, coupled with the swift concentration of populations in cities, has placed increasing pressure on urban areas—particularly major cities. Symptoms such as population expansion, traffic congestion, housing shortages, environmental degradation, and resource constraints have become frequent occurrences.

Architecture and Design Magazine for the 21st Century. Organizer of the Annual Skyscraper Architectural Competition.

Editors’ Choice 2025 Skyscraper Competition Haimiao Zhang, Biying Li, Yifan Ma, Linzhi Lu China The project is situated in the vast expanse of the Sahara Desert—Earth’s largest and most extreme arid landscape. Stretching from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea and spanning 11 nations, the Sahara covers nearly 9.32 million square kilometers. It endures less than 50 mm of rainfall annually, experiences decades-long droughts, and oscillates between scorching days of over 50°C and freezing nights.

Editors’ Choice 2025 Skyscraper Competition Inseok Moon South Korea Humanity now lives in an age where technologies once imagined in fiction have become reality, yet natural disasters continue to threaten lives and ecosystems. Recent wildfires in Los Angeles, Australia, and various regions of Korea highlight the growing severity of these events. This project responds to that urgency by proposing an architectural system that anticipates disaster and minimizes damage.

Editors’ Choice 2025 Skyscraper Competition Parv Shah, Reeshica Singh, Himanshu Sanghani India In laboratories around the world today, brain–computer interface experiments—led by companies like Neuralink—are pushing primate cognition into uncharted territory. These trials were originally created to treat neurological disorders, restore motor functions, and decode how the brain communicates with machines.

Editors’ Choice 2025 Skyscraper Competition XiuMing Cui China As Shanghai Longtang, a symbol of the middle-class life in the 20th century, gradually faded away amid the roar of bulldozers, this high-rise complex attempted to preserve a fading memory for the city with a vertical narrative.

Editors’ Choice 2025 Skyscraper Competition Chen Zhengwen, Zhang Hexiang, Chen Chi, Jiang Jiang China Under counter-urbanization trends, population growth in natural areas is driving the emergence of agricultural towns. Currently, such towns often prioritize farming conditions at the expense of living quality. For example, in Ningbo’s tea region, tea thrives in the humid mountaintop environment, while farmers typically live at the foothills.

Editors’ Choice 2025 Skyscraper Competition Junyang Chen, Xiaoqi Cheng, Huaiyu Li, Tonghao Liu China In a future scenario where global warming causes sea levels to keep rising, existing coastal cities are gradually swallowed by surging seawater. Yet humanity cannot easily abandon its established urban infrastructure and deep-rooted cultural memories. In response, an “umbrella-shaped city” rising from the water’s surface is envisioned as a new prototype of habitation.

Architecture and Design Magazine for the 21st Century. Organizer of the Annual Skyscraper Architectural Competition.