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- Error601, on 10/10/2007, -0/+50We'll see what mothra has to say about it.
- felchdonkey, on 10/10/2007, -0/+39This seems to be making the rounds quite a bit, even repeating itself on Digg. What's most annoying is that the article is talking about one building, but uses pictures from three different projects.
I don't remember what the interior pic is from, but the pyramid-looking building is actually the Shimizu Mega-City Pyramid: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shimizu_Mega-City_Pyramid - archistudent, on 10/10/2007, -3/+29@duncot
Please type in English, using real words and correct sentences. Thank you. - johnkyoungoh, on 10/10/2007, -0/+24Imagine the awkward elevator rides.
- kitchensj, on 10/10/2007, -1/+24Did anyone notice "Robots" in this diagram?
http://inventorspot.com/files/images/xseed-3_0.img_assist_custom.jpg - archistudent, on 10/10/2007, -0/+17I don't think this thing will ever be built. I first read about this a couple of years ago and have seen no new information on the project. I seriously doubt any country, affluent or not, would $300B on one million residents. I know Japan is crowded, but they are smarter than resorting to this kind of construction.
The Sears Tower (Chicago) is really inefficient because of all the elevators (100+) required to move people about. I can imagine that this building would also require too much vertical transportation to make the building efficient. Pipe dreams are nice, but they are still dreams. - slash128gnr, on 10/10/2007, -0/+16They just need to construct additional pylons.
- GopherGod, on 10/10/2007, -1/+17So, where are the ski slopes?
If I can't ski a city-skyscraper shaped like a mountain, it seems like a total waste. - DeviantSeptum, on 10/10/2007, -0/+15Hide-n-seek.
- devjunkie, on 10/10/2007, -0/+14..or the fun pranks that can occur.
*hits all the buttons before exiting* - fnaqzna, on 10/10/2007, -1/+13I'm more worried about the pinhead that starts an uncontrollable fire in the kitchen.
- archistudent, on 10/10/2007, -6/+17@duncot
Please type in English, using real words and correct sentences. Thank you. - MattB123, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9Biggest terrorist target ever!
- semiotix, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9"World's tallest building to rise higher than Mt. Fuji."
Hey, fantastic. In other news, Scarlett Johannson and Natalie Portman to fight over who gets to give me a foot rub. You're probably skeptical, but I've got sketches and diagrams and everything to prove it. - CraigJ, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7except that they aren't really going to build it. Cool though.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6The fact that they want to build it sitting on pylons in the bay makes it all the more ridiculous. I don't even understand why companies are paid to design things like this, which aren't possible with todays materials and will cost way too much to be worthwhile even in the future. The sheer amount of support strength needed for something of this mass is unreal. It's cool in theory, but so are a lot of other things that would be a mistake to even think about seriously attempting.
- Kiteboarding, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6If built how long till the first sake juiced base jumper takes its virginity?
- egroeggnik, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5By the time the building is done, they'll have perfected teleporters too.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Hello Kitty Factory?
- gtchen66, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4No references and inaccurate pictures. Buried.
- skankyBacon, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Um, you live in it.
- Fooord, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Did you see the design? How do you jump off of that? Maybe hang gliding...
- ToadLeg, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3What the *****? The title should be "Worlds Tallest Building IDEA." There are no plans to build a building that costs at least hundreds of billions of dollars.
- Terr01, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4It's still useful, especially when you want to be clear whom you are responding to and when you get deep comments where you cannot actually use the associated reply button.
- sigsegfalt, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I want to see what the parking lot looks like.
- Rileyper, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3wow, you need to get off the internet sometime, theres more to see outside
- majeo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3If each resident paid $300,000 for their place, it would be paid for. This is economically feasible, considering the disgusting amounts the penthouses in such a edifice could go for.
- gumby013, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3$300 Billion on a building for 1 Million people is only $300,000 per person. That's about right for building costs in Tokyo. Now if the materials could only support the weight of the structure...
- D0P3M4N, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Am I the only one that is reminded of a Sim City 2000 Arcos? One of those wicked expensive, self-contained environments?
- yoycek, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Mini-city? we have ~1 million in our capital city, Warsaw
- allaboutdatiki, on 10/10/2007, -3/+5Um, earthquakes?
- TheKrillr, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2The nice thing about it taking one million people to run, it means Every person living there, could work there.
- parasitewasp, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I only dug it because of the hellcat refrence
- parasitewasp, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2worth repeating just to see when you'll hear it on tv or something, maybe next time someone posts this artical.
- trghpy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2The building would be a city on its own.
I don't think any company could afford to make this large of a risk with out huge government aid. - Calcularius, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2HOLY FLERKING SHNITT!!!
If that ever gets built I will take a trip to see it! - Hermitwise, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2It's for an entire community to live in, says so right in the article, there's even pictures. :D
- Rileyper, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Earthquakes shouldn't be a problem, If you didn't notice the design looks bottom heavy
- Dreamseeker, on 10/10/2007, -4/+6It's possible this could happen, but there's a question burning in my mind; what the hell do you do with a building that big?
- TheKrillr, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Ya, but the Arcos looked so much cooler than this thing :-p
- Grok22, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2paintball?
- BevansDesign, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Isn't this part of some sort of ancient Japanese prophesy? "When the works of man dwarf even Mt. Fuji, the great dragons shall appear from beneath the earth and bring ruin to the world" or something?
I just made that up. - TropiCara, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2lol thats awesome. you had me going for a second!
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2You are a ass.
- compgeek, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3I agree with other posters here at $300B dollars this will never happen....EVER. no sane government that wanted to stay in power would even consider spending that much unless it could house practically an entire nation. hell for $300B there better be one building big enough to house all of Canada at ~27 million and then some. If I were the Japanese government I would be thinking hrmmm spend $300B to house 1 million residents that's $300K/resident. I hope for the sake of the Japanese economy they shoot this down faster than a mitsubishi zero being shot down by hellcat.
- kidcodea, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2im an architect by formation and this is just sad and irrational.
- frostieDude, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2It is very sad that you were unable to read even the summary of the article before commenting.
- TheKrillr, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2No sane government would ever borrow $1.05 trillion dollars for a war against a tiny nation... oh wait, Bush did...
- ultimate_ed, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Better than the article
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcology - moduc, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I envision somewhere, in a cave, Bin Laden laugh uncontrollably.
I envision a building twice as tall with just 1 room, on top.
I envision oxygen engine running full time high up so people can breath.
I envision a security gate where people have to pass all security check, and health check and psychological test and richness test to get up there.
It seems to allow too many envisions without a sound logics/plan/funding. -
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