Tag: skyscraper
X-SEED 4000 – science fiction housing for one million people
Japan’s Taisei Construction Corporation has a dream. It’s dream is to make a building taller than all the other buildings.
Only the X-SEED 4000 project doesn’t just scrape a few metres over existing towers – it’s nearly TEN TIMES the size of current sky-scraping record holders…
New London skyscraper dubbed 'The Walkie Talkie', but we think 'Nokia 6230' more apt
The skyscraper which has been threatening to be plonked upon our modern East-End London scenery has just been approved by the City of London, and it’s already been given an ‘affectionate’ nickname – ‘the Walkie Talkie’, by the skyscraper-equivalent of a Trainspotter, SkyscraperNews.com.
Already kicking up a fuss, with the English Heritage claiming it’s got an ‘attention seeking form’, it will use 21 million kilowatt hours of electricity per year, which is actually 10% less engery than an average building of similar size, surprisingly…
