Tallest Tower to House 1 Million People
Now here’s something that will cause massive traffic problems if implemented in KL.
Town planners have long dreamt of floating super-cities, especially in densely populated or land-scarced cities like Dubai, Singapore, Tokyo or Hong Kong.
The reality of these plans coming to fruition is still many, many years away, but it still doesn’t stop the designers from working on a design is getting closer and closer to materialization. Taisei Construction Corporation, has come up with plans for one such super city, and according to Inhabit:
Looking eerily like Mt. Doom in the above rendering, the mountain-like X-Seed 4000 represents a utopian eco-vision for a self-contained high-rise city in the Tokyo harbor - powered mainly by solar energy. Aesthetically inspired by nearby Mt. Fuji, the behemoth building would measure 13,123 feet tall with a 6 square-kilometer footprint, and could accommodate five hundred thousand to one million inhabitants.
You can see the pictures and full write up here.
we need a good public transport then we can have this type of building
Comment by Rice Blogger — August 22, 2007 @ 11:46 am