Tall Building: London's Super Tower
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Tall Building has looked at classics and it has looked at works-in-progress. It's time, now, to look at an architectural dream, with slight chances of coming to light. This post takes us to London and the proposed Super Tower, a city unto itself.
It is so drastic and dramatic that it doesn't really make sense. Then you read about it, and you realize it barely makes sense. The tower hits 1,500 meters, almost 3/4 of a mile upwards. That's almost 5,000 feet up. Wha?
n] to keep tabs on new projects like the Nakheel Harbour and Tower, Bahrain WTC, Honeycomb Skyscraper, Burj Dubai... in Dubai... in Pictures, CCTV and TVCC Towers, Tokyo Sky Tree, Burj Dubai (Revisited), Dancing Towers, Dynamic Tower, Dubai Towers, The Lighthouse (Paris), The Lighthouse (Dubai), Antilla, London's Super Tower, Eiffel Tower, Shuffle Tower, Full Moon, Caspian Bay, Chicago Spire, Chicago's Aqua Tower, Infinity Tower, Teardrop, Christmas Tree or the Burj Dubai.Tall Building has looked at classics and it has looked at works-in-progress. It's time, now, to look at an architectural dream, with slight chances of coming to light. This post takes us to London and the proposed Super Tower, a city unto itself.
It is so drastic and dramatic that it doesn't really make sense. Then you read about it, and you realize it barely makes sense. The tower hits 1,500 meters, almost 3/4 of a mile upwards. That's almost 5,000 feet up. Wha?
This design has come about because London is expecting to add 100,000 people per year through 2016. Where to put all the people? Well, the UK company Populararchitecture proposes the Super Tower that addresses one year's influx in a 600-story tower. 100,000 residents. What's more, the tower is intended to be a city unto itself, with neighborhoods and everything.
What is that everything? Well... everything. Ice skating rink. Farmers' market on 320th floor. Swimming pools. Town hall on floor 250. Theaters. Offices. Gardens, including the Alpine on floor 457. A "road" that runs at a slant up the tower from top to bottom. Fire stations galore, including the upper one on floor 419. A university on floor 429. There would be an internal elevator service that would be run like a vertical subway. It's really... everything.
Is this even possible? Well, let me tell you, it'd solve a lot of problems. I mean, there is only so much space cities can spread into, and as the world's population continues to grow and take over forests, we need to start thinking outside the box like this. (Christmas Tree, by the way...)
Of course, the building would be crazy environmentally friendly with rain water collection areas, not to mention that most people would be spending their days in the same building, cutting down on transportation costs and city mahem. Also, I can only imagine how many Giant German Wind Turbines they can fit on the roof of that sucker. Talk about some WIND!
The monotony of the cylindrical exterior is broken up by those giant holes that would be used as open spaces for sassy things like gardens and outdoor theaters. Populararchitecture sees the building being built 20 floors at a time, slowly climbing into the sky. (Each 20 stories would be considered a village, each floor would be a neighborhood and each 200 floors would be a super-district.) For the record, there would be THIRTY of these 20-floor segments. THIRTY!
All in all, this Super Tower sounds interesting to me. We have to start wrapping our heads around concepts like this so that when we start executing them in a decade, out of spacial necessity, we won't be too shocked to birth it into reality.
What is that everything? Well... everything. Ice skating rink. Farmers' market on 320th floor. Swimming pools. Town hall on floor 250. Theaters. Offices. Gardens, including the Alpine on floor 457. A "road" that runs at a slant up the tower from top to bottom. Fire stations galore, including the upper one on floor 419. A university on floor 429. There would be an internal elevator service that would be run like a vertical subway. It's really... everything.Is this even possible? Well, let me tell you, it'd solve a lot of problems. I mean, there is only so much space cities can spread into, and as the world's population continues to grow and take over forests, we need to start thinking outside the box like this. (Christmas Tree, by the way...)
Of course, the building would be crazy environmentally friendly with rain water collection areas, not to mention that most people would be spending their days in the same building, cutting down on transportation costs and city mahem. Also, I can only imagine how many Giant German Wind Turbines they can fit on the roof of that sucker. Talk about some WIND!
The monotony of the cylindrical exterior is broken up by those giant holes that would be used as open spaces for sassy things like gardens and outdoor theaters. Populararchitecture sees the building being built 20 floors at a time, slowly climbing into the sky. (Each 20 stories would be considered a village, each floor would be a neighborhood and each 200 floors would be a super-district.) For the record, there would be THIRTY of these 20-floor segments. THIRTY!All in all, this Super Tower sounds interesting to me. We have to start wrapping our heads around concepts like this so that when we start executing them in a decade, out of spacial necessity, we won't be too shocked to birth it into reality.
That's a tall building...really tall. Scared of heights, I don't think I'd be game. Who would want to live on the 400th floor anyhow?
It would be pretty sweet to live on the lowest floor I guess. Take the stairs instead of waiting for an insane elevator.
Can you imagine a crop of these in a city? Dang. It reminds me of the SimCity games, where if you progressed far enough, you could gain access to and build a similar type of mega structure.
They should build it. Start turning London into Coruscant.
Yet another reason to not have kids! This building looks like it was designed by people who never lived for any length of time in an apartment building. What a nightmare, lol.
T'would be an achievement, certainly, but it looks like it mixes the worst of apartment living with the worst of taking a cruise. The only way I'd live in this is if I owned the entire building.
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