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Sadly like all Japanese supertall proposals, this, Sky City 1000, Mother, The Spiral, TRY-2004, Aeropolis 2001, Hyper Building, Millenium Tower, and several others, will never be built. Japan has a wonderful history of designing architectural vapourware much like South Korea but on an even larger scale.

Cool and all. But about existing towers… there’s no debate: the CN Tower in Toronto is the tallest, at a “whopping” 1815 feet: World’s Tallest Towers.

When I see these proposals I think of the following: smog, a section of the people will often be in clouds and have no way of getting out of them, the massive shadow that the building itself will project over a city, and how big of an eyesore most of these would be.

Another useful questions is for many of these which have sections that are free-standing and thus can be walked under: what goes under there?

It’s rather elegant looking … however, I sure wouldn’t want to be living in it when a major earthquake strikes!

You’d think inhabitants of an earthquake prone area such as Tokyo - and where I live - would prefer to be on or close to the ground.

The CN Tower is classified as “The Worlds Tallest Free Standing Structure.” So Mr Fodden, you’re right to say there’s no debate, because the CN Tower does not apply.

People people please … one starts with an idea … and works from there … of course there would have to be a need … and of course … a solar outage would not equal catastrophe …

Once again human kind inspires with the argument ‘that we can’, with little or no recognition of thought given to whether ‘we should…..’

Seriouly - self sufficiency aside (in the completed mega structure) - how ridiculously HUGE would the embodied energy footprint of something like this be - and how long is the payback period for all that embodied energy???!!!

I can’t help but agree that we need to be much MUCH smarter in terms of what we benchmark as ’sustainable’.

A six square kilometer footprint on Japan’s earthquake pron ground seems to be asking for trouble. Images of the whole building doing the splits as the ground opens up beneath it come to mind.

The picture of an enclosed green space is of a “Space Plateau” from the Sky City 1000 proposal. It too has an Extreme Engineering episode devoted to it, and is probably the most feasible of these imaginative concepts; my personal favourite.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_City_1000

Hum, I thought the Burj Dubai is(will be) the tallest? http://www.burjdubai.com/

[...] que Sky City 1000 era algo casi imposible de realizar o por lo menos mientras yo viva, por medio de inhabitat conozco a X-SEED 4000, otro de esos proyectos que sólo quedaran para el [...]

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it scares me…

Burj Dubai will be taller than the spire of the CN Tower in just a couple weeks.

Frank Lloyd Wright had “Mile High” dreams back in 1956, but executed the concept in a much more elegant way:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Illinois

BTW, If you want a desktop version model Wright’s “Mile High” concept, follow the link:

http://prairiemod.typepad.com/prairiemod/2006/08/desktop_mile_hi.html

Buildings of this scale could become a necessity. I designed this as a warning though, not an aspiration…

http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/bb108/jongreenslade/TheTowerOfLondonBlogfest01.jpg

I’m now designing the smallest housing structure in the world. I will house 1,000,000 atoms.

I use to work on the television show that show that project.. It was called Extreem Engineering aired on Discovry Channel , in case some of you guys want to look at this structure and how it will be build .

I work on the structure itself in 3D

http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/engineering/engineering.html

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you people are all ridiculous. this thing is awesome, it’s better than frank lloyd wright’s plans for
a mile high skyscraper. everyone hush up you’re scaring off progress

Currently, Japan houses about 850 people per square mile. 130 mil over 150,000 sq miles. This building has the potenetial to house 200 times that.

So as Japan’s population increases, those people can eat up 1200 square miles of Japan. Or they can leave that area alone and green, and pile on top of each other in this thing.

On top of that, it sounds like they plan to incorporate renewable energy sources. My guess is that the overall impact of a megastructure like this is smaller than sticking a million people elsewhere. I’m not saying their won’t be problems.

Круто бля, я бы тут жил. Правда форточку на последних этажах не открыть.

(хуй).

Great. At least it won’t be a target.

Maybe I’m a bit too cynical, but multiple 30 story skyscrapers hanging from a carbon-fiber tube structure that is sitting on piers in the ocean floor, in an area prone to earthquakes, designed by engineers that probably design to minimum standards, and built by lowest bidder contractors that will no doubt cut corners to make a bigger profit, is not any place that I’d even want to be near, let alone live in.
It seems that the whole project would be better served by a lower and more solid structure. But that would ruin the whole “Mt. Fuji look” and “taller than you” bragging rights thing, wouldnt it?
As to the housing of a million people in one structure, Tokyo is probably about the only place that this could be done. Even there, I would think the population density would be pushed higher than many could deal with.
And then there’s the possibility of fire. Remember the World Trade Center?

it sounds very cool but it wouldnt be true in the coming 20 years. i guess. it is nice to think abt it though.

obviously this designer is a huge BLADERUNNER fan. I wouldn’t want to live in that future or present. It’s a fantastical idea, but please, don’t build it.

well, like many others i am wondering what is the point/need to build a 4000 meters tall residence? How safe would you be on a top floor in a case of emergency/fire? even if you run it may take you an hour to get out. will air travel be safe? I think it is great and all to push engineering to its extremes and design these marvels, but it will be a worry if they start building something like this especially considering the cost.

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“It’s all rather modernist isn’t it.”

I hate to break it to you, but modernism never actually ended.

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Here are the floorplans: http://clipurl.com/?OBM884

I suppose someone’s already posted this, but where in the hell is Japan–with it’s 1.2 population replacement figures–going to get the people to fill it by the time it’s finished?

[...] [Inhabitat] There’s a lot of debate about what the tallest tower in the world currently is. Some say the Taipei 101, at 1671 ft to the tip of it’s spire, is the world’s tallest tower, whereas we might argue that the Sears Tower, at a whopping 1731 ft (and 110 stories), still takes the prize. However, if the enormous, 13,000 ft X-Seed 4000 structure ever gets built in Tokyo - it will win the worlds-tallest-building competition hands down and leave its puny competitors in the dirt. [...]

If Japan is running out of space for its population, perhaps they should aim for negative population growth until land ceases to be an issue. Wouldn’t that be the greenest solution?

Japan is having negative pop growth and worst case estimates have them dropping about 30 - 50 million people by around 2050.

wo truly an amazing building

C.N tower is not a building for the last time. the word building is derived in in skyscrapers as something that is occupiable throughout (i.e. each floor) and not a concrete shaft housing an elevator to a few storets of resteraunts and observation decks

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Uau, possibly, it will be very good building (or what is it…)
Fortunately, we (Kazakhstan) don’t have problems with “lack of land”. Thus, we build beautiful buildings rather than just “high” :)
Almaty city is the best one!!!
Visit KZ and you wll see that…

Wow one million people in one building! But did u think of price and demand metal glass all that willgo up let alone crime i that price will be redickuless

In reply to some of the concerns posted here, if you didn’t notice, there is no facade in the design of the building, it is meant to be a skeletal structure for the purpose of ‘not’ casting a shadow over Tokyo. This is the same concept of the Time Warner Center in New York, whereas rather than building one tall structure and casting an afternoon shadow over the park, they, instead, built a reflective two towers to enhance the sunlight during the afternoon.

I’m positive the other concerns are being dealt with as well, would any architectural engineers care to comment?

Imagine being a janitor there…

I believe it is a great idea, the sheer size of this building in todays standards may overwhelm the smaller structures it dwarfs but with solar panels and such you could keep a large population within that space and keep them happy. to shun ideas like this seems rather primative, where would we be today if it wern’t for these weird, wacky ideas, for instance…. man on the moon “this is one large step for man, on giant leap for mankind.” gotta take the steps and leaps sometimes to move ahead. plus you are saving space by having larger structures taking up un-used skyline space. pretty sure these things will have there own presurised invironments in the future.

To be Creative has no end actually, I personelly appreciate the design as this is a creation and inventive attempt to get something new in the field of urban planning else than repeating and modifying the existing ones and acheiving rewards over the other practices.
Hands up for this inventive approach.
Thanks

OFF course its a brilliant idea………..but yes its true that JAPAN AND SOUTH KOREA have made a habbit of making wonderfull designs but with no sign of taking any steps towards making them…..BEFORE this i thought THE SKY CITY was the best…..but this one is really mind boggling I LIKED it but i seriously doubt that this project will be completed soon……….its more like a TIME MACHINE……where people know how to make it BUT DONT KNOW WHEN TO MAKE IT OR HOW TO MAKE IT…….i think probably 50 years will be needed to complete this mamoth project……with the best technology available may be it ll take 40 years but having the BUDGET in mind really will hault the process of constructing this building …….I DONT THINK JAPAN CAN AFFORD THIS PROJECT…………..but yes we doo need few project like this one cuz as the day pass by we do need new spaces for the growing population of EARTH and project like this will significantly reduce poppulation as well as pollution………SAaeO NARA………..AU REVOIR !!!!!

Meh the world trade centre was not designed for what happened to it, alas innocence lost, modern buildings take it into account, secondly as fantastic as this design is, it is never actually meant to be built certainly not as is, it was a completed design created to gain recognition from the architect\\\’s and was no seeking of backing or running it via government was involved.

If a project like it is ever created it will be after the success of a project like tokyo sky city, probably some considerable time after as given the time it\\\’s taken to get to a km up (as in not happened yet, though one is definitely on its way http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madinat_al-Hareer and after the km\\\’s up getting km + buildings as archology style structure such as the Sky city 1000, will require some serious interest though given japan\\\’s interest and frankly need it it may well get of the ground, before anyone would consider such a considerable leap due to the obvious conservatism of the world as demonstrated in this very set of comments,

Not just one most likely several sky city size and larger projects are likely to go first so by the time projects such as this may be seriously considered the population density will have probably increased to the point where it is seriously needed and would represent a distinct improvement to those who like have green in the countryside and like a countryside period instead of eating them up with possible future super-city sprawl\\\’s another 20th century sci-fi concept, one that if population increased can only be prevented as a necessity with projects like this, and will provide the average person with more space.

Basically for now its merely a future theory impressive to look at but not even the designers intended this to be real, look at sky city for something more likely to happen within the next 30 years, given mile high towers going up it\\\’s getting easier to sell the concept on the \\\”don\\\’t get left behind\\\” bandwagon as well as obvious necessities

additionally to the chaps who clearly know nothing about it, building lots of cheap low-land housing would wipe away the countryside and ultimately have a far more detrimental effect to the environment then one highly efficient building and 1 million people will use 1 millions people worth of resources when not in one place building by concentrating them it is possible to reach far greater hight\\\’s of efficiency then all the homes requirs to house them conventionally and frankly all the equipment required will allow efficiency by bulk if you truly wish to help earth\\\’s future environment you have to look outside the box and arcologies represent a valid solution, socially speaking, each one will be a city in its own right, and no doubt act like one

Frankly i for one would be pleased city where one is unlikely to have to encounter far less petty thieves, petty drug dealers and other petty crime due to none of them being able to afford to go there, instead of a unattainable idea if they have any sense the poor will view it as a great place worth of working their way out of poverty providing an impetuous for improving self-change and hopefully to boot a few less criminal\\\’s will realise what they can\\\’t attain by that way of life and go straight out of it to, of course all that social bit is idealist nonsense based on the preconception the average person is at his heart \\\”nice\\\” but nevertheless if they had any sense, it would be true, and that means at least some that do will be inspired, such a building looming down on one can\\\’t help but remind them there\\\’s bigger things and greater achievements waiting to be had out there then their petty real life issues, and provide incentive for the next generation of thinkers and innovator\\\’s as every great work and innovation of the past has, and it would be a an achievement worth of praise.

PLZ.. BURJ DUBAI IS THE TALLEST SKYSCRAPER IN THE HOL WORLD THERE ARE NEW BIGER SKYSCRAPERS THAT ARE GOING TO BE BIGGER IN DUBAI. K.

is a good idea but why build such on an earthquake table like japan why not build it underground.