Siberia going green and tall

[Plainview]

This appears like a fantasy but it's apparently real. A very tall mixed use tower going up in a remote part of Siberia:

http://dsgnspot.com/2008/03/26/the-green-tower-siberia/

What to make of it? Why not South Bend Indiana or Manchester or Sau Paulo? In other words, we have no precedent for this type of major innovative development taking place in a remote backwater. I'd like to know more about how this came together. Maybe Siberia is offering the right incentives similar to Dubai's efforts to attract growth. They probably also realize that world-class architecture is a quick to get a global identity.

Several months ago I thought I was the first to come up with the concept of a very tall building, a self-contained city in a remote wilderness:

http://www.plainview3d.com/Sustainab...enAndTall.html

Maybe Sir Norman Foster has been spying on me! Actually, I predicted it was inevitable. Of course, it's easy to dream about these things, quite another thing to make them happen.

Comments welcome.

Peter Tocco
www.plainview3d.com

[The Dirt]

This looks like something out of a sci-fi novel. Very interesting.

[Jerry]

Now that is truly different.