Could Tokyo Build a Mega Skyscraper Pyramid? (Video)
Posted by Sam_Gellman on Friday, Jun 04, 2010
Shimizu Corporation, a 200-year-old construction company that takes on projects of unprecedented magnitude and technological complexity, wants to build something that could make those skyscrapers in the Middle East look like village huts: a city-sized pyramid for Tokyo Bay that takes up 275 city blocks, and contains a population the size of San Francisco. An arcology, as architect Paolo Soleri calls it, is a theoretical structure combining architecture and ecology, and it’s only appeared in science fiction.
Shimizu is also hoping to build solar panels on the moon, and some other ‘mega’ projects that will make you feel like a caveman, and keep the National Geographic channel in business for a few years.
Watch the video above for the pyramid – and for the hilarious (yet poignant) disaster scenario speculation.
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