13000 foot tall building - want to live here?

[pie-eater 207]

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Japan is a country full of crazy ideas, but their plan for the world's tallest building makes every single one of their insane USB devices look downright reasonable in comparison. It's a 13,123-foot-tall superstructure. To give you an idea of just how tall that is, it's about 7 times taller than the current tallest building on earth, and it's a solid 700 feet taller than Mt. Fuji. Yeah, it's pretty tall.

 

The mountain-shaped building, known as the X-Seed 4000, would be able to house upwards of 1,000,000 people and would cost somewhere between $300 billion and $900 billion to construct. Due to the size, scope, and, well, general insanity of the project, the chances of it actually being built are somewhere between slim and none. But hey, it's nice to know that at least one country out there is willing to make plans for stuff this crazy.

 

 

[Tubby Beaver 209]

I saw a documentary about plans to build a super building in Tokyo, it wasn't this tall, but it consisted of separate rings that would be a mini-city on each floor, with parks and its own train system. Seemed pretty mental

[thursday 1]

Taipei 101 stands at 1667ft, 508M and has 101 floors. That's pretty tall.

 

Build the X-Seed. I want to see it.

[samurai 0]

I saw that documentary too. It looked alot like that photo, but it was called sky city.

[nzlegend 1]

Burj Dubai is halfway done and is going to trump everything currently existing by miles

 

 

 

for concept buildings Japan has had a few, the X-seed is the most mind boggling, though they all pretty gob-smacking.

 

Skycity 1000 in Tokyo(1000m)

 

Shimizu Mega city pyramid (2000m)

 

Aeropolis 2001 (2000m and 500 storey)

 

 

America not be outdone once proposed a Frank Lloyd Wright behemoth called the Illinois - 1700m and 528 storeys)

[Tubby Beaver 209]

so what is the biggest building in the world?

[nzlegend 1]

Tallest building is currently the Taipei 101. 509m

Tallest building to top of antenna is Sears tower in Chicago 527m

Tallest tower (Free standing structure) is CN tower in Toronto 553m Tallest structure is a radio mast in Fargo Nth Dakoto - 628m

 

When finished the Burj will own all major records, tallest building and tallest structure (free standing or supported) at about 800m

[ausi ski bum 1]

You could have a ski resort on the top floors

[Yuki's Passion 1]

 Originally Posted By: ausi ski bum

You could have a ski resort on the top floors

theyll have one indoors at least right?

[spook 0]

i personally can't imagine anything more boring than an 400m indoor ski run. if you're into jumps, maybe, but on the whole it seems so far removed from what i enjoy about snowsports.

 

i'm not sure i'd like to live in some megatower either. quite scary i'd say. while i wouldn't live there, i do like the idea of the massive tokyo building, with a self contained city, simply for its bizarre futuristic ambitions

[soubriquet 0]

Tall buildings freak me. I'd avoid that like the plague. All of them actually.

[Curt 1]

I wonder how much snow would fall at the top and if it would be fun snowboarding down that X-Seed.

 

In that picture it looks like something off Aliens. Scary.

[SerreChe 2]

Talk about never summer if you live on the top floor!

That X-seed could be good with a slope on the outside.

Not good shape for base jumpers though.

[me jane 0]

Would be hard going if the elevators broke down.

[2pints-mate 0]

And how much would the thing shake up top if you had the big earthquake?