Spider in the Sky: Ryohei Koike and Jarod Poenisch's Web-Tastic Skyscraper Proposal

Their concrete-and-carbon Nested Skyscraper is no place for arachnophobes.

It's been a rough few days for traditional skyscrapers: two masters of the modernist glass tower died last week, the Trump Tower's Der Scutt and the Sears (now Willis) Tower's Bruce Graham. But imaginary architecture is alive and well. Just check out the winners of eVolo Magazine's 2010 Skyscraper Competition.

The winner was a floating prison designed by Chow Khoon Toong, Ong Tien Yee, and Beh Ssi Cze, architecture...