^^ very civilized

What is your avatar?

hahaha --- I second that.

:worship:

That was funny.

Hej,

by all the critics that it is only a joke, you have to admit, this idea might be mad but is actually a passionate thought. :tup: And security issues are likely being cracked withing some time and creative talent - if time has come they will not hesitate to construct it. And I have to say, there is enough water in the oceans to form artificial clouds, coherent with the ice melting there will be even more water available soon.
And were not the hanging gardens crazy, the big wall, pyramids and all that.... landing on the moon etc.
I think the Emirates are at one state to drive the world forward, where half of the developed service countries is stocked in its artificial political and demographical problems.

Like who really got some fantasy left. Here in Germany, the city of Dresden argues about a stupid bridge - that discussion now goes on for over 10 years. And recently a single "bat", by the way - were bats not famous for flying through dark caves – without hitting walls, prevented the start of its construction.

In Emirates they just try to life out their fantasy and by that its boosting our everyone’s minds - away from all the "that’s impossible, and who will finance it" talks, which have gotten worse after the end of cold war, before everything was possible too (cause one either communism or capitalism had to proof of being the better system).

I have most respect of such crazy ideas, since the Emiratis may be closing the gap/lack of terra-forming knowledge, that might be needed to settle on new planets and recreate the damages on you own.:notacrook:

Regards, Jens

better than
 

I mean going for that seems better for me than going for Dubailand.

Regards,
Jens Rahnfeld

Where did you hear about this? I'm pretty sure I would've heard about it. Something like what you described would not be possible in Seattle due to height restrictions, weird terrain, Greg Nickles (mayor), and money. Seattle after all does have high taxes and high prices.

:previous: :haha:

What's so funny?

Anyways, there's a building that was made up for the Sci-Fi museum here in Seattle that has 3 domes on top of each other. Each dome has a small "rain-forest" and some labs. But that's just to bring people to the museum and to show can might happen in the future. This isn't a proposal. Is that what you were talking about?

How the hell is this a joke? Yeah its a stupid concept, but like someones really gonna buy a bunch of 3D rendering programs and make a skyscraper realated joke?

What CGII said was a joke, theres no such thing as "The Opening". Although sometimes CGII's posts are hard to confirm if they are sarcastic or not.

It's not a joke but it's just a concept by some architects, probably for their own research and is not actually proposed for for construction at all. That's probably what AltinD meant.

God, Dubai sucks. This design blatantly apes Diller + Scofidio's Blur Building.

hmm... I like the design. It looks good from far away. And yes Dubai is dry but hellooo.....Persian Gulf...

well if they ever decide to film a remake of Bladerunner, they should have it take place in Dubai and Tokyo, you know to completely give it that futuristic feeling.

i don't know about you, but i don't want to see this built

anyway Merry Cristmas!!!!!!!!!!!

And plus how are you supposed to go up it.

You have a very good point

exactly

it's not that uncommon
architects get an idea that is supposed to make a statement, kind of like performance art, and they excecute all the programmatic, graphic, and presentational aspects of the project, so the opinion and idea can be debated in the public realm, as it is being debated here

the project is by atelier hapsitus, a lebanese firm, it's all in the link on the front page, from a very interesting design magazine

Wow with this kind of thinking Dubai should just start buildign skyscrapers out of paper. Actually come to think it, I would feel safer standing in a building made of money than this one.

This thread has some hilarious ass posts.

This is real clever. Cloud like objects on 1000 foot poles.