Posted on 02/06/2016 8:00:44 AM PST by upchuck
Plans are underway to build a MILE-HIGH skyscraper in Japan.
If approved the huge tower would be the tallest building in the world, dwarfing the current record-holder, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai which is half as tall at 2,717ft (828m).
Located in Tokyo Bay, an inlet southeast of the city proper, the plan - dubbed Next Tokyo - wouldn't just be a single massive building, but if approved would emerge as a mini city designed to combat climate change.
Envisioned as part of Tokyo's effort to protect itself from rising tides, Next Tokyo would feature a chain of man-made, hexagon-shaped islands.
They would form a barrier to protect Japan's capital from flooding as well as provide the foundation for homes for some 500,000 people. They could be connected by Hyperloop, Elon Musk's high-speed transit system.
The centerpiece of the plan, is the 5,577-foot-tall skyscraper slated for completion in 2045. It's currently being called the Sky Mile Tower and is similarly hexagon-shaped for optimal wind resistance.
Reports say the tower could hold 55,000 people, a full 10th of the city-within-a-city's population. The building's facade will collect, filter and store water from the atmosphere, serving as its own apartments' water supply so that the upper floors don't have to rely on a traditional water pump.
(Excerpt) Read more at thesun.co.uk ...
THE MILE HIGH ILLINOIS
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Architect: Frank Lloyd Wright / Date: 1956 / Location: Chicago.
Why would a country that uses the metric system want to build a mile high tower?
In Japan. Where earthquakes are common.
Also Typhoons and Tsunamis. I will just say no thank you.
If anyone could do it, probably it’s the Japanese. I wouldn’t go there if you paid me. The former “Top of the World” restaurant in the NYC WTC was stomach-churning to me.
Who knew climate change was responsible for Babel. It won’t work this time either.
With that many people in a tall thin building wouldn’t the entire internal structure need to be elevators and stairs just to keep things flowing?
Whoever wrote the headline thinks there are 5,577 feet in a mile???
Makes about as much sense as building nuke plants in areas that are prone to earthquakes and tsunamis.
A mile-high skyscraper in freaking Japan! Are you serious?
There are several videos on youtube of the earthquake in Japan of the buildings swaying violently at the limits of the sway allowed in the engineering.
Now figure the extreme of the sway with a building this tall.
BTW, in those videos, you can actually see those buildings quiver during the sway.
Instead of fire suppression equipment they have base-jumping parachutes.
Exactly. What could go wrong?
They’re conformists. Conformity is in their DNA.
You would need nametags for everyone.
The reactor was fine.
Now, the backup generators, well....
The top three floors should be an hourly motel.
7.0 islam?
The tower of Babel and a bridge too far.
What an incredibly stupid idea, gravity-wise. The costs of construction and maintenance will also be exponentially greater. Not very “green.”
Don’t get me started :)
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