Strata Tower, Abu Dhabi, UAE

Strata Tower, Abu Dhabi, UAE


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The Strata Tower is 160 meters high. It is a forty-story, luxury residential building designed by architects Hani Rashid and Lise Anne Couture of Asymptote. The elegant building’s design gives special consideration to environmental sustainability and will be open sometime in 2011.




Mode-Gakuen Spiral Towers, Nagoya City, Japan



Mode-Gakuen Spiral Towers are a marvel of educational architecture. It is located on the Main Street of Nagoya city. Double-glassed air flow window system in breathtaking spiral building provides natural air ventilation making it eco-friendly. The structure is designed to survive the most severe earthquakes.



Edgar Street Towers, New York City, US



Edgar Street Towers, currently at a design stage, were inspired to provide living spaces along with commercial, recreational and cultural centers. Fiber-optic array transmits light downwards during the day, and, by night, it is lit by solar-charged batteries. Bio-filtration terrariums throughout the structure provide clean air.

Oasis Tower, Dubai



Rahul Surin specifically designed the Oasis Tower to create a structure for vertical farming. The structure harvests solar and wind renewable energy. The architect believes that one spiral-tower can generate enough food for 40,000 people.

Fog Tower, Atacama Desert, Chile



The Fog Tower, designed by Alberto Fernandez and Susana Ortega, is 400 meters tall. The genius of the structure is in how it harnesses water in the driest place on earth from mist clouds for agriculture. It can provide 2-20 liters per square meter of vertical surface.


Za’abeel Park Observation Tower, Dubai



The Za’abeel Park Observation Tower was designed by XTEN Architecture to be a zero energy utilizing tower. The exterior is covered with solar film. Geothermal cooling and ventilation and powering the building with solar-charged cells makes it a green structure to the core.

Canton Tower, Guangdong, China



The Canton Tower was designed by architect Mark Hemel. It took six years to build and was opened in 2010. The form, volume and structure is generated by two ellipses, rotated relative to another.

Chicago Spire, Chicago, US



The building was designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava inspired by the the grace of a snail shell. It was planned to be 150 stories. The eco skyscraper is still in its construction phase.

Space Scraper, Cairo, Egypt



The Space Scraper, a triple tower skyscraper, was designed by Mohamed Abdel-Aziz. Each twisting tower was for residential, commercial and hotel space. It answers every need of an average urban space. A health center at the top and the rest of the building is powered by solar and wind power, and boasts of water harvesting.


Rotating Tower, Dubai



David Fisher of Dynamic Architecture has designed the Rotating Tower that has recently begun construction. It is a 59-story structure that would generate more power than it utilizes. It is a more than self-sufficient building meeting its energy needs from solar and wind power.

The Solar Spire, Chicago, USA



The Chicago Spire project has been revived as The Solar Spiral. The building will be able to generate more than a megawatt of power with solar panels. The structure will combine community living with all the amenities of urban living within the building.

Wind Tower, Britain



The British architects David Arnold and Alexa Ratzlaff have designed a eco-friendly spiral structure that harnesses wind energy. The central core of the building has the wind turbine designed to use wind, no matter in which direction it may flow. It would be a 45-meter structure housing 2000 households.

Spiral Staircase Skyscraper, Barcelona, Spain



This imaginative spiraling skyscraper was designed by Nabito Arquitectura of Barcelona. The focus is on each individual house having its own personal green space. It looks very much like a spiral staircase with gardens jutting out of each house.