Architecture Competitions | Chicago Greening Jungle Concrete

Registration Feb 3, 2018 | Submission Feb 10, 2018 |

Chicago Greening Jungle Concrete | Architecture Competitions

NEW SKYSCRAPERS FOR A NEW CITY
INTERNATIONAL IDEAS COMPETITION OF ARCHITECTURE

Theme

The typical image we all have of a city is of towering high-rise blocks, densely packed tarred streets and a generally hard urban environment. Nature is isolated in manicured green parks or in linear rows of gray-looking trees. The city is perhaps the furthest thing from a natural environment and the closest thing to an urban desert.
But what if we begin to green this concrete jungle? Projects such as the High Line in New York have shown this can be done, and the wave of vertical green walls has created a new ecological fashion statement. There is, however, one method that trumps all of this in terms of long-term benefits: green roofs.