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This is the argument of the writer Eric Reguli. Taking London as an example, he cites the tall behemoths who dwarf existing buildings in London's financial district. The square mile is known to be full of beautiful, historic (and short) buildings, but the entrance of tall status symbols quickly undermines the character of the city. The architecture of our great cities becomes homogeneous as the choice of shops on our streets in the city center, and in our shopping malls. Skyscrapers are also environmental disasters. You can't open the windows, so you need air conditioning for the whole summer, and no matter how big a multi glazed window might be on insulation, it doesn't beat a good foot or two stone walls to regulate the temperature. In summer, they keep warm and act as a heater for storage in winter. Too hot? Air a bit Open the window. These vertical islands are not only sucking out resources and surrounding streets in shadow, but they are disposable structures. Bank towers with huge open trading floors connected to the fastest communication networks cannot be easily converted into housing, factories or shops, says Reguli. In contrast, the old low-rise building can be remodeled, over and over again. Factories are becoming loft apartment buildings, like old red brick British schools. One of London's most famous art galleries, Tate Modern, is located in a former power station near the Thames, and its vast ground floor space of Turbine Hall has done much to bring art to the public, which usually won't bother. Skyscrapers, on the other hand, have more to do with the quick fashion clothes you find in the NSM than they do with the old wool coat you can pass on to your grandchildren. For the most part, Reguli writes, skyscrapers should be demolished when they have outlived their usefulness. And the more attention-grabbing Renaissance cod is, the more wasteful it is to demolish them. In the past, we have reported (with typical enthusiasm) about several proposals that include trees in projects, including a farmscraper proposal for China and Milan Bosco Verticale back in 2011, which is now nearing completion. But an article on the architecture blog Beyond the Square Mile by Tim De Chant (who was reposted on the slate), argues that for technical reasons, we might not really ever see the kind of thriving vertical forest these drawings describe. De Chant kindly asks architects to please stop drawing trees on top of skyscrapers. From your post: Want a skyscraper to look fashionable and sustainable? Put a tree on it. Or better yet, dozens. Many of the skyscrapers with a high concept are decorated with trees. On the roof, on the terraces, in the nooks and crannies, on absurdly large balconies. Mostly anywhere horizontal and high off the ground. Now, I have to say, architects are drawing dozens because I still haven't seen one of these green skyscrapers in real life. [...] If- and it's the biggest if any of these buildings ever get built, chances are they'll be stripped of foliage faster than the developer can say return on investment. It's just unreal. I understand why architects paint them on their buildings. Really, I do. But can we stop? According to De Shant, who has studied plant physiology, there are many reasons why trees won't thrive on top of high-rise buildings, including fierce winds, extreme heat and cold, higher rainfall rates, and logistical problems like watering, fertilizer, and pruning trees. Trees just weren't made for such conditions, he writes, adding: 'It might all seem a bit funny coming from someone like me, a supporter of more trees in the city It probably comes from the fact that seen too much green vertical oasis, but too few of them are actually built. His post is an interesting reality check for idealistic, tree-loving townspeople and architects who fuel their fantasies. But the Milan Tower would be a good way to prove your theory right or wrong. Burj Mubarak al-Kabir in Kuwait. (Photo by Eric Kunet and Associates) , now the tallest tower in the world, officially opened in Dubai on January 4 amid an impressive pyrotechnic display that highlighted the tower's 2,716.5 feet of aluminum and steel, and its 26,000 hand-cut glass panels. The Burj Khalifa blows away Taiwan's nearest skyscraper, which is 1,670-foot Taipei 101, and the building has even surpassed ultra-high, terrestrial cable-backed radio.entanthese. However, the vertical leap of architects is unlikely to stop at the Burj Khalifa. While the tower will be hard to beat, it will probably remain on top for only about half a dozen years. Developers around the world have offered a lot of new skyscrapers. Some projects have jumped off the drawing boards, although plans for many record towers have been flooded due to global economic spasms over the past few years. (The original name of the Burj Khalifa, Burj Dubai, was changed at the last minute to recognize the United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Khalifa bin saeed al-Nahyan, who as emir of Abu Dhabi gave the struggling Dubai $10 billion bailout last month.) So which buildings could be next to rise up and steal the Crown of the Burj Khalifa? Here are eight future contenders. Location /// (Photo by Eric Coone and Associates) This mammoth structure will rise exactly to 3,284 feet, or 1001 meters. The height, metres away, is an allusion to the classic collection of Middle Eastern and South Asian folk tales, A Thousand and One Arab Nights, says London-based architect Eric Coone, whose firm designed the tower. To break the kilometer mark (which is 3,281 feet), the $7 billion-plus Mubarak al-Kabir will have three interconnected towers that support the overall structure. These towers, or blades, wheel about a triangular central mine that holds elevators and mechanical equipment. Each blade spins 45 degrees as it rises, for strength, and expands slightly at the top. Thus, this Kuwaiti landmark will place more mass and usable space near its zenith compared to other towers, says Kune, to avoid structures having too thin and flexible a tip. To dispel high-altitude, towering storms that can blow at 150 miles per hour, Mubarak al-Kabir will see the first architectural deployment of vertical oilerons - usually horizontal flaps that airline passengers see on the back edge of the plane's wing- to help withstand the storm They will look like continuous tape running vertically along the six leading edges of the three blades, kuhne says. Says. The Eilerons are constantly moving, and catching the sun as they adapt, sunlight will move from their surfaces. This will add a gentle ripple reflection to the edges of the blades that will add dynamic shine to the tower, kuhne says. Burj Mubarak has a completion date in 2016. Location /// (Photo by Adrian Smith and Gordon Gill Architecture) Building higher also means building wider. That's why the 3,280-foot- will be built with three towers. What usually happens as these buildings get taller, the base needs to be wider, but it gets to the point that it's just too wide to be one building and you start pulling things apart or separating them, says Peter Weismantle, director of supertall construction technology at Adrian Smith and Gordon Gill Architecture. The smallest tower 1 Dubai will come in about 1970 feet and the tallest is about 3280. All three come out of the tripedal base architects call the saddle. The channel will flow between 1 Dubai three legs, allowing the boats to sail under. Further support for the towers comes from connecting bridges, where the residents of the tower will be able to gather. Designers suggest building Skybridges in the saddle and then using a jack mechanism to get them in place. The clearing of the site for the project began in 2008, but has since been delayed due to the state of the world economy. If and when construction starts in earnest, 1 Dubai will take anywhere from seven to 10 years to complete. Location //// (Photo by Coby Karp /Thornton Tomasetti/EDSA/Miapolis) 160-year-old Miapolis will climb nearly 3,300 feet on Watson Island in Biscayne Bay, west of Miami Beach and east of downtown Miami. The $22 billion Miapolis will house an indoor amusement park, luxury villas and apartments, office space, a performing arts center and a marina. With Miapolis, planners hope to demonstrate the potential economic benefits of high-profile real estate: Developers say it could bring in nearly a billion annual tax revenue and pump twice that into the local economy as visitors flock to South Florida's newest landmark. At the moment, the project remains on the drawing board in the architectural firm Kobi Karp, and there is no shortage of artist's impressions about many aspects of Miapolis. Designers want the complex to be environmentally responsible and intend to have the building received a LEED Platinum rating from the Council of Green Buildings of the United States. More information about Miapolis is scant at the moment as developers are tight-lly close about the project, although lead developer Guillermo Socarras says he will be announcing new details in a few weeks. Meanwhile, Socarras is in talks with the Federal Aviation Administration to obtain permission to increase the height of Miapolis, proximity of the proposed site to Miami International Airport. Location /// (Photo Woods Bagot /Nahil Harbor and Tower) This cylindrical mega-tower has eight spires that come to a point at the peak of the building. Although the official target height has not been identified, the Nakhil Tower is likely to crest 3,280 feet. Its designers, the international firm Woods Bagot, are aiming for to be the first true realization of the vertical city. More than 15,000 people will live, work and communicate in this spire with a ground trail the size of a square block of New York. The support columns are based on a radially symmetrical 16-point star image and is inspired by an Arabic pattern. This model makes engineering sense because the symmetrical building carries the load evenly among its structural units, according to a 2009 example at the Nahiel Tower published in the journal Of the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat. The hardest part about designing the Nahiel Tower, according to the study, was dealing with the so-called vortex shedding from winds that can cause vibration damage. Instead of funneling the wind around its metal and glass leather, the Nakheel Tower takes the unusual approach of having large gaps in the middle of the building, with a double set of slots that allow storms to pass right through. Every 25 floors or so, large disco-like skybridges tie the towers together and serve as rustic squares for high-rise residents, as in 1 Dubai. As in 1 Dubai, the completion date of the Nahiel Tower was delayed due to unfavourable market conditions, although some early construction work was indeed carried out before the stall. A completion date has not yet been announced and the project may never resume. Location //// (Photo by Takenaka Corporation) Takenake Corporation proposed 1000 back in 1989 to address Tokyo's population density problems. Tokyo-like congestion is causing demand for green spaces and office space that far exceeds supply, and introduces a host of environmental and social issues, from pollution to uncomfortably packed commuter trains. Takenake Solution: Create a way up- and place green spaces in the sky. The special thing about our proposal was to create artificial land in the air, said Masato Ujigawa, engineering manager at Takennaka. To achieve this goal, Takenake first start with a base that is 1,300 feet on each side, a footprint that equates to several blocks of the city (the Burj Khalifa's triangular footprint is only 300 feet or so). Then, according to its name, the will rise a full thousand meters (3,281 feet), consisting of 14 levels stacked on top of each other. Each level will act as its own city, with a park-like square in its center, fringed residences, schools and businesses. The structure will consist of 10,000 and will be used at some capacity of 130,000 people. Construction hasn't started on Sky City 1000 as Japan's population begins to shrink as 2005, says Ujigawa. However, Ujigawa says the ideas originally supported by the Sky City 1000 project have since been used in more traditional construction. These include concrete, reinforced with carbon fiber instead of iron to reduce weight, and autonomous water systems in buildings that treat wastewater and reclaim water. Location /// (Photo by Eloy Selaya) The roughly $15 billion Bionic Tower will break from traditional engineering principles by introducing radical design elements to the 4,029-foot-tall tower, according to Eloy Celaya, an architect with ECE Arquitecturas and one of the three main Spanish designers bionic tower. Instead of vertical foundations, Selaya imagines a floating foundation similar to the roots of a tree, with a tangle of many hundreds of anchors in the ground. To support, crossing the farm, the Bionic Tower will draw inspiration from bird bones that are light and hollow. Twelve stacked blocks in this vertical metropolis will receive water, energy and other materials using 92 vertical columns (as well as xylem and flam transport systems in vascular plants), which will double as structural supports. Although the concept of Bionic Tower was originally pitched in , China about a decade ago, now the prospects of this tower being erected someday are questionable. Location //This is a photograph of the kingdom's existing Centre in Riyadh. Images of the Kingdom Tower in Jeddah are not yet available in public. (Photo by Amin Mohammad) This skyscraper was originally billed as Mile-High Tower in 2008, although record height ambitions have since been reduced by nearly 2,000 feet. Updated design plans have not yet been revealed for the Kingdom Tower, but the winner of the design competition between Skidmore, Owings and Merrill and Adrian Smith and Gordon Gill Architecture is due to be announced within weeks. Marshall Gerometta, of the Council for High-Rise Buildings and Urban Habitat, a group that certifies the supertall heights of the building, said the Kingdom Tower was probably the best choice in the near future to overtake the Burj Khalifa. Funding appears to be secured for this building, which will be the centerpiece of a new $27 billion planned urban area in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, under the control and financing of the Kingdom Holding Company. The first mile-high installation called for the creation of two stabilizing mini towers to support the main tower. The mini-towers, at an altitude of nearly 1,000 feet each, near the height of the Eiffel Tower, will be dwarfed by the central spire. Many supertall building tops have an expected side movement of 10 feet or so, and to mitigate this swaying effect, a massive, computer-controlled object called a damper will be placed a mile high How the building will look and how it will be designed remain open says he has heard that the Tower of the Kingdom will represent a new generation of skyscrapers. Location /// (Photo workshop of Omero Marchetti) This conceptual tower has also been named the Al Jaber Tower in accordance with its possible location in Kuwait. This tower will soar up to a full nautical mile, 1,852 meters, or over 6,000 feet. Italian architect Omero Marchetti, founder of the Millennium Challenge 1852 project, says that concrete, orthogonal nets, traditional systems, mortars and cranes cannot be used to reach the sea mile. The building will do without the right angles and perpendicular planes as these structural engineering norms make large amounts of cast iron and concrete follow unnatural and twisted geometry, Marchetti says. Instead, he looked at hexagonal matrix snowflakes, which as structurally supported objects combine large volume with low weight. Marchetti says that three groups of investors in different parts of the world are now interested in making the Millennium Challenge Tower a reality, which he believes is necessary to build a sustainable planet. I don't think we have a second chance, or if you like, we don't have a second planet, Marchetti said. I tell you that this is the future that is up to us to seize now. This content is imported from YouTube. You can find the same content in a different format, or you may be able to find more information on your website. This content is created and supported by a third party and is imported to this page to help users provide their email addresses. 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