IS this the future of extremely high skyscrapers architecture ?
In Dubai, experimental architecture firm ZNera Space has proposed a conceptual design featuring a massive five-story circular structure wrapped around the world's tallest skyscraper, the Burj Khalifa -- which towers at a staggering 829.8 meters (2,723 feet), almost double the height of the Empire State Building.
And who will build it? The dirt poor migrants who built "New Dubai"? Thankfully, most of the conceptual architecture like this remains on the drawing board (so to speak).
Dubai, Shanghai, are on the leading edge in supertowers pushing the 800 meter standard. A division of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill who designed the Burj, leads the way with many other ambitious projects there.
@Nexus My cynicism? I merely wish that the resources that would be consumed by that folly, both intellectual and financial, be applied to some of the huge list of pressing problems that ordinary people have.
@Nexus Ego is one thing, and money; well I know this… I went to a house of “ill repute”. The wad of cash got me through the door . My ego never got in!! Money talks!
