"Japan's Plan For World's Tallest Building"

[Prada]

Quite mesmerizing really.

http://www.geekologie.com/2007/08/ja...ds_tallest.php


nspired by Mount Fuji, Taisei Construction Corporation has completed designs for construction of the world's tallest building. The X-Seed 4000 (no idea where that came from) would stand at approximately 13,123 feet (4 km), nearly 700 feet (213 m) taller than the real Mount Fuji. The next tallest buildings don't even break 2,000 feet, how puny! While likely to never be built, the X-Seed would have up to 800 floors, and be capable of housing between 500,000 and 1,000,000 people.

Unlike conventional skyscrapers, the X-Seed 4000 would be required to actively protect its occupants from considerable air pressure gradations and weather fluctuations along its massive elevation. Its design calls for the use of solar power to maintain internal environmental conditions. Some estimate that the cost to construct the X-Seed 4000 structure may be somewhere between $300-900 billion US dollars.

[Tock]

Neat idea, but maybe not a good one for the land of earthquakes . . .

[eliteforce]

i heard this 10 maybe 20 years ago and it's bs, there are no real plans to build one of these, how could something like that possibly be cost effective? live or work in this thing for what?

[Xtralarg]

Just what the hell would you do if the elevator broke down!?!

[x_moe]

Just what the hell would you do if the elevator broke down!?!

take the stairs !?

[Xtralarg]

take the stairs !?

One hell of a leg work out to the top floor!

[Prada]

Neat idea, but maybe not a good one for the land of earthquakes . . .

Actually I believe that Japan has some of the best Seismic tolerant infrastructure and architects. Hence I would have to assume a project of this nature and size that that issue has been taken into consideration.

[lightwaytbaby]

looks pretty cool...