![]() ![]() In Kwong Von Glinow’s Towers within a Tower design apartment units are stacked one on top of another vertically. “Within this footprint are all the self-sustaining features of infrastructure, buildings, facilities, and services necessary for improving the living, working, cultural, entertainment, sports, recreation, and leisure qualities of life for residents.” “High capacity, high efficiency ultra-tall buildings occupying a relatively small, car-free, pedestrian-friendly parcel of land,” they say. Kenneth King and Kellogg Wong, the architects behind Vertical City, claim it as a solution for sustainable living. ![]() They foresee a future where we live in interconnected mega-towers that each contain all the components of a city in one building so that, in theory, you never have to leave if you don’t want to. Some architects and urban designers – in particular a group called Vertical City – want to take vertical living to new heights. ![]() Of course it’s great to have commanding views, but it’s also essential to have equalising interactions.” “But even if we have buildings that are unfathomably tall by today’s standards, the key will be breaking them down into scales that allow humans to relate to each other. Is there a height we shouldn’t go beyond? “From a practical standpoint, today’s structural engineering can facilitate a 2,000m building, though it would be enormously expensive to construct,” says Daniel Safarik of CTBUH. This was the third consecutive year that Shenzhen completed the world’s largest number of 200m-plus buildings, representing nearly 10% of the global total. Last year it managed 14, ahead of Dubai’s 10. Meanwhile, the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen is the world leader in completing new skyscrapers. Dubai’s Burj Khalifa is currently the world’s tallest building at 828m. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |