Sky City 1000

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For the 328 metres tall tower in Auckland, New Zealand that is part of the Sky City Entertainment Complex, see Sky Tower.

Sky City 1000 is a possible future urban project aimed at helping put an end to major congestion and lack of green space in the Tokyo, Japan ward area.

The plan consists of a building 1000 meters (3280.8 feet) tall and 400 meters (1312 feet) wide at the base, and a total floor area of 8 km² (3.1 miles² or 1976.8 acres). The design, proposed in 1989 by Takenaka Corporation, provides for 35,000 full-time residents and 100,000 workers. It comprises 14 concave dish-shaped "Space Plateaus" stacked one upon the other. The building would include residences, offices, commercial facilities, schools, theatres and other modern amenities.

Since its announcement it has garnered much attention among the world's architectural establishment. Many hope that within a decade or so it will be fully realised by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government and Japan's largest corporations.

Apparently, the project is taken very seriously and Tokyo's only fire helicopter has been used in simulation tests to see what the danger would be if a fire were to break out in one of the buildings. Also, triple decker high speed elevators which would be used in the building and would contain up to 70 people are being designed in experimental labs outside Tokyo.

Although this project has gained more serious attention than many of its alternatives, it can be considered similar to projects such as X-Seed 4000 and Sir Norman Foster's Millennium Tower and, in ultra-high density, mixed use concept, to theories like Paolo Soleri's Arcology and Le Corbusier's Radiant City.

• It was featured on Discovery Channel's Extreme Engineering in 2002.
• It was featured on CNN's This Week in Japan in 1989.

[edit] See also

• World's tallest structures
• Arcology
• The Illinois
• X-Seed 4000
• Pyramid City
• Aeropolis 2001

[edit] References

• Takenaka's information page
• Discovery Channel has a web page about Sky City.

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