this tower will never become reality, at least not in the next 50 years.....can a mod please close that thread?
The 'Ultima' Tower, 10,560 feet, 500 fl
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May 5, 2008 Forward-thinking architects are looking upwards in an effort to control a global population that is growing by around 2.2 per cent every year and becoming ever more concentrated in crowded cities. Eugene Tsui is taking nature as the inspiration for his 2-mile high, one-mile wide Ultima Tower, capable of housing up to a million people. Designed to be virtually impervious to wind, water and earthquakes, the massive tower is conceived less as an architecture project but as a series of mini-ecosystems within which other architectural projects can be developed. And it offers some ingenious ideas on energy production, water use and intra-colony transport. At US$150 billion a pop, you wouldn't expect to see the Ultima being built any time soon, but as population pressure increases, it's pioneering ideas like these that will form the inspiration for real-world solutions.
http://www.gizmag.com/ultima-tower-eugene-tsui-population-challenge/9262/
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http://www.tdrinc.com/ultima.html
http://www.gizmag.com/ultima-tower-eugene-tsui-population-challenge/9262/
http://www.tdrinc.com/ultima.html
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I know this tower for years and its absolutely a fantasy. 
hno:
hno:
...not again... hno:
hno:
My first thoughts:
- Hardly any usable area because of the massive construction
- If a building like Burj Dubai take up to 5 years of constructing and this building is, lets say, 20x thicker (in two directions) and 5x higher my guess for the constructiontime is 5*20*20*10= 2000 years. (excl. preparing it
- Developers want to be sure a building will make profit. How will they know it starting this??
- The bigger a building, the more installations are required. This is madness..
- Environment will suffer under this so much, many people will try to stop such ideas (although I think it would be wonderful!)
This are just some thoughts and my opinion, it would be nice to discuss it! Without visions no innovation.
Cheers:cheers:
Not impossible but uneconomical and impractical .
I dont think it looks too good either but that is a matter of taste and such.
.I dont think it looks too good either but that is a matter of taste and such.
It's indeed ugly. but you don't decide if it gets built or not
course not ^^, but i'm 100% sure that it won't
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