Innovative high rises honored at eVolo’s 2025 Skyscraper Competition

eVolo Magazine has revealed the winners of its 2025 Skyscraper Competition. The contest received 149 submissions, with three winners and 14 honorable mentions selected.

The annual award has been running since 2006 and seeks to garner “visionary ideas that through the novel use of technology, materials, programs, aesthetics, and spatial organizations, challenge the way we understand vertical architecture and its relationship with the natural and built environments.”

The jury for the 2025 competition was composed of Nici Long (Co-Founder, Cave Urban), Davide Macullo (Director, Davide Macullo Architects), Juan Pablo Pinto (Co-Founder, Cave Urban), Wenyuan Peng (Director, Yuan Architects), and Leonid Slonimskiy (Director, Kosmos Architects).

The winning entries were as follows:

First Prize
The Living Refuge: A Symbiotic Sanctuary For Humans And The Vanishing Pollinators by Changsi Wang (United States)