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MOSCOW’S boomtown skyline will be dominated by the world’s biggest structure, a £2 billion “city inside a building” designed by Lord Foster.

Reaching almost 1,500ft into the sky and housing up to 30,000 residents, the Crystal Island will contain more floor space than any other structure on Earth.

Foster, whose recent British projects include the new Wembley stadium and “the Gherkin” office block in the City of London, said the tower is “the world’s most ambitious building” and symbolic of Russia’s renaissance as a world power.

However, some observers have likened the new Moscow skyscraper to a “Christmas tree” and dismissed it as “brash” and “vulgar”.

Foster plans world’s biggest building - Times Online

英国の建築家ノーマン・フォスターが設計したモスクワの新ランドマーク「Crystal Island」のお話。

氏の構想によれば、高さ1,500フィート(457m)、総工費20億ポンド(4,525.5億円)とのこと。

I search to find the true about Cobra Tower from Kuwait. It is real or just another hoax?

A friend from Kuwait tell us it is a hoax. He live there and he don’t know about this project. Other people tell us it is just a concept generated by a CGI firm, so a kind a hoax…

News from gadget’s world » Blog Archive » Cobra Tower Kuwait: real or hoax?

クウェートに建設予定のコブラタワーのお話。
ただし現地の人は、そのプロジェクト自体知らない、眉唾物だと言っているとか。

2重に絡み合うビルが禍々しい秀逸なビルですね。

This skyscraper, to be built in Dubai, is called the Burj al-Taqa (’Energy Tower’), and it will produce 100% of its own power. The tower will have a huge (197 foot diameter) wind turbine on its roof, and arrays of solar cells that will total 161,459 square feet in size. Additional energy is provided by an island of solar panels, which drifts in the sea within viewing distance of the tower.
New Skyscraper Creates All Its Own Energy : MetaEfficient

ドバイに建築予定のすべての電力を自家発電する摩天楼のお話。
ビルに取り付けられた直径197フィート(60m)の風力タービンと、総計16,1459平方フィート(15,000平方メートル)のソーラーパネルですべての電力をまかなう予定だそうです。

大きいことはいいことだ。

Idea: A building shaped like Godzilla
The people of Tokyo should construct a giant building shaped like Godzilla. Imagine what it would do to the city’s skyline, and to the tourism industry. People would come from all over to take pictures. His eyes could flash red so airplanes don’t hit him. There could be an observatory in his mouth so people could look out over Tokyo. One of his arms could house a bar, and the other arm a restaurant. They could serve drinks called Mothra Martinis and dishes like Grilled Gamera Steaks, with a side of Mashed Potatoes.

Ironic Sans: Idea: A building shaped like Godzilla

東京にゴジラ形のビルを建てると観光名所になるんじゃね？と言うお話。

しかしスゴイ妄想力です。
ゴジラビルの口は天文台、片腕はバー、片腕はレストラン。
脚の間にはコンサートホールがあり、尾の後ろにはゴジラパークが、そしてゴジラパーク内には足跡形の噴水が…

こんな、会話も交わされる日が近いでしょう。
A「就職したぜ!」
B「マジ？どこで?」
A「ゴジラビル知ってる？そこの近所。2,3ブロック南だ。」