In 2050, near 80% of the world population will reside in urban centers. For it, increasingly architects propose new designs for buildings that, besides taking advantage of the space and the natural resources, include all kinds of ecological elements.

In this line, diverse cities are thinking about the construction of eco-buildings and planning new ones with recycled materials, renewable energies or vegetal covers. Keep reading to discover which the most spectacular green buildings are:

The Hearst Tower, it’s the most ecological skyscraper of New York, by the moment. Its sustainable strategies, as the energetic efficiency, or its recycled material have made of it deserving of the International Highrise Prize or the Gold READ Certificate.

Also in NY, we will find in the future the One Bryant Park, which will turn into the first skyscraper of the city which technology and development are based totally on the new ecological technologies. A whole example of sustainable architecture!

The Bank of America Tower, placed in Manhattan, includes the architectural “green” elements of the Hearst Tower, and others so curios as a natural ventilation system and LED lights sensitive to the solar light.
Other good example is the CIS Tower in Manchester, that possesses approximately 7.000 solar panels in the building front and 24 wind turbines in the roof… super ECO!

In Rotterdam, Holland, is constructed the Urban Cactus a group of 98 residential units which curled balconies allow to take a better advantage of the sun and also let place for lots of plants. Sustainable and original!

The big constructions shouldn’t be scolded with the respect to the environment. Maybe in a future we all live in a skyscraper and for it we have to work to make them contaminate as less as possible. So, what do you think of these gigantic constructions? Would you like to live in one?

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