Every year, Evolo awards the top skyscraper concept out of nearly 500 entries.
On March 24, the architecture and design magazine awarded the top prize to two American designers for their Hunger Games-esque concept.
The design by Yitan Sun and Jianshi Wu, called New York Horizon, looks like a cross between the Grand Canyon and the arena in "The Hunger Games."
The winning skyscraper concept isn't actually a skyscraper at all — it's a sunken park in the center of New York City.
Sitting 100 feet deep and 1,000 feet long, it would take up 7 square miles of of Manhattan. To put that in perspective, that's about the same length of the Empire State Building if you flipped it on its side. Or in square footage, that's 80 Empire States sitting next to each other.
Glass walls would encase the park, mirroring the natural landscape and the city around it.
In their entry, the designers imagine the park's concept as a stark contrast to the city's towering skyscrapers. If it were built, New Yorkers could hike, climb, and explore its lakes, greenery, and boulders.
It's not unusual to see crazy conceptual architecture like this, but in reality, it's too impractical to actually get most of it built. But that's the point. It's the innovative thinking in designs like New York Horizon that may spur the city's next greatest (and real) skyscraper.
We may not see a Hunger Games arena in the middle of NYC any time soon, but maybe that's for the best — we all know how that turned out.
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