~ World’s Tallest Building to Rise Higher than Mount Fuji.
At 13,123 feet high, the massive, mountain-shaped building envisioned by Japan’s Taisei Construction Company would overshadow Mount Fuji itself by nearly 700 feet. That’s the equivalent of NINE Empire State Buildings stood one upon the other!
The X-Seed 4000 gives “highrise” a whole new meaning!
The building, known as the X-Seed 4000, is designed to house up to one million residents on as many as 800 floors! Designers have had to consider tricky questions of temperature and pressure differentials between the base and topmost floors, and are looking to utilize solar power to solve these and other critical issues. The cost, you ask? Somewhere between $300 and $900 billion… what’s that, an Iraq War or two? Couple of manned Mars missions? Quite do-able - if you’re Japan, one of the world’s richest countries.
A city within a city
One might think the Japanese government would never allow the placing of an edifice the size of the X-Seed 4000 anywhere near sacred Mount Fuji, but Taisei’s plans call for the monumental mini-city to rise relatively close by, rising up upon huge caissons sunk deep into the mire underlying Tokyo Bay.
Above the crowds and above the clouds
Could it happen? Well, skeptical citizens of Florence, Italy, scoffed at Leonardo da Vinci’s detailed drawings of helicopters and other flying machines. Yet da Vinci’s dreams did take flight, centuries later. I wouldn’t rush to put down a deposit on a unit just yet, but Taisei’s outrageous X-Seed 4000 proposal has the same potential to fly high
[via:inhabitat]
August 25th, 2007 at 1:13 am
Sounds really cool and looks pretty nice in the pics, although I’m not too sure how nice a gigantic concrete thingie would look sticking out near such a sacred place as Mount Fuji.
Possibility wise: Impossible is nothing…
Everything is doable…
August 25th, 2007 at 12:08 pm
Very interesting! I’ve heard of those mega-cities before, especially in Japan.. but all of them have stayed firmly on the drawing board with not one making it to site (yet).
As much as I like tall buildings, I do not think they are economical. We can do really funky things with concrete and steel, and if this building was sitting on rock then I’d say that it’s technically feasible. But the big question really is the ground. What kind of foundations will it have?
We all know, if you build your foundations right then you will have a good building, and vice versa. In my estimates this monstrosity will probably need foundations that cover at least x2 or x3 the area of the built up (mountain bit) structure. This means an area the size of a small city will be dead space and simply there to house the thousands if not millions of concrete caissons.
Very nice post ya Bakkouz :)
August 25th, 2007 at 10:52 pm
fakart another tower in jordan
ya akhi those japaenese people 3aleehom 7arakat..!!
so if someone falls of that building he will die of thirst and hunger..
would you >>BAkkouz..go to the top level of such building?
i wont..never..i am scared just reading ur topic
(mara7el soqot il smilie 3an il tower)
walking not noticing the edge
still not noticing that smilie is falling down(as in cartoons)
thinking..mmm mybe i had too many Colas
now this is fun (still unaware of the fact he is falling
something is fishy..
ok i’ll take a nap till this ends
p.s. pardon me but i was bored
September 5th, 2007 at 3:16 pm
well what can i say…other than the fact of having tremendous respect for the Japanese.. i think that this building is a bit much….i guess its an ongoing competition between countries on who builds the highest building…and its probably a guy thing lool