Reported by: JI Jingtao
Translated by: AI Xin
Edited by: Patti Broderick
Updated: 2012-3-27
eVolo Magazine, sponsors of the world’s leading architectural competition, announced March 2nd that First Prize in the 2012 Skyscraper Competition was awarded to the Team of junior students from Harbin Institute of Technology’s School of Architecture: ZHENG Zhi, ZHAO Hongchuan and SONG Dongbai for their revolutionary project Himalaya Water Tower. This is the first time ever that Chinese architects have won First Prize.
eVolo, is an architecture and design journal focused on technological advances, sustainability, and innovative design for the 21st Century. Established in 2006, the annual Skyscraper Competition recognizes outstanding ideas that redefine skyscraper design through the use of new technologies, materials, programs, aesthetics, and spatial organizations. The award seeks to discover young talent, whose ideas will change the way people understand architecture and its relationship with the natural and built environments.
The competition jury selected 3 winners and 22 honorable mentions from the 714 projects submitted from five continents and 95 countries. The project is a skyscraper located high in the Himalayan mountain range that stores water and helps regulate its dispersal to the land below as the mountains’ natural supplies dry up. The skyscraper, which can be replicated en masse, will collect water in the rainy season, purify it, freeze it into ice and store it for future use. ZHENG, ZHAO and SONG’s project creatively combined bold innovation and prescient vision for a sustainable future.
Himalaya Water Tower
