Editors’ Choice

2019 Skyscraper Competition
Layton Reid

United Kingdom

Ethos

This project seeks to use the detritus and waste elements of production to create an attractor, both economic and social, a free territory for the dispossessed, offering accommodation, leisure, employment, and health.
Typology

The building takes the form of a series of ribbons rising from the landscape to a stoa above this augmented market of interchange, celebration and shared hope, self-administrated, a patria of the air.
Concept

The issue of inequality plagues the world, and refugees and migration receive little credit for their life-giving entrepreneurs, This project creates a vessel for an opportunity, a new territory forged from the industrialized world’s detritus, a land above borders which cleans and links the oceans, a  new tech business-focussed Dubai-Vegas, where the ethos of the migrant can be celebrated, a  yearning for freedom and a search for success. New User

The removal of work possibilities from the migrant and casual worker, create a new economic opportunity, in a new destination venue, rising above the border as a magnet of reduced tax and social and commercial enterprise organization, Those returning will find a welcome in the plethora of opportunities in a city where energy and water are free commodities and those who come for its services will find an international economic alternative to their usual circumstances.
Demographic

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