more than 480 design teams submitted entries to evolo magazine 's 2015 contest and a jury of experts chose three winners and awarded 15 other designs with honorable mentions from 480 global entries .
the evolo magazine skyscraper competition was established in 2006 to recognise ` outstanding ideas for vertical living ' .
since then , the publication has received more than 6,000 projects that use technology , materials , designs and space in novel and challenging ways to question how ` we understand vertical architecture and its relationship with the natural and built environments .