eVolo Magazine is pleased to announce the winners of the 2025 Skyscraper Competition. The Jury selected 3 winners and 14 honorable mentions from 149 projects received. The annual award established in 2006 recognizes 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 FIRST PLACE was awarded to Changsi Wang from the United States for the project THE LIVING REFUGE– a skyscraper in Manhattan designed as a habitat for humans and endangered pollinators.

The recipients of the SECOND PLACE are Sheida Ghelichkhany, Alireza Agah, Negar Hashemol Hosseini, Fatemeh Peysepar, Nasim Bakhshinejad, and Fatemeh Malemir from Canada, Italy, and UAE for their project MICROBIOME SWARM NET, which imagines an aquatic skyscraper designed to clean microplastics from oceans.

The THIRD PLACE was awarded to Danny Elachi Elsaadi and Dima Elachi Elsaadi from Saudi Arabia for their project THE RETURN– a skyscraper conceived as an open structure with amenities for nomad Bedouin communities.

The Jury was formed by 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].