THE MILE HIGH ILLINOIS
Proposal.
Architect: Frank Lloyd Wright / Date: 1956 / Location: Chicago.
Why would a country that uses the metric system want to build a mile high tower?
That last paragraph sounds like a recipe for disaster.
One good earthquake and I can see that sucker toppling over. I can’t imagine living in something like that. I like the ground. Feels safer.
That would be quite the engineering feat and an architectural marvel. If anyone can pull it off, I suspect the Japanese can. It’s good that they’re dreaming and reaching. Several questions arise, though. Their population is declining, so where is the demand? Hurricane force winds won’t be uncommon at the top of this structure. Power failure would be much more of a problem, can you imagine 55,000 people exiting this building via stairs? Fire, I don’t even want to think about that.
Sounds like a really great idea for a high-earthquake zone.
THE MILE HIGH ILLINOIS
Proposal.
Architect: Frank Lloyd Wright / Date: 1956 / Location: Chicago.
Why would a country that uses the metric system want to build a mile high tower?
If anyone could do it, probably it’s the Japanese. I wouldn’t go there if you paid me. The former “Top of the World” restaurant in the NYC WTC was stomach-churning to me.
A mile-high skyscraper in freaking Japan! Are you serious?
There are several videos on youtube of the earthquake in Japan of the buildings swaying violently at the limits of the sway allowed in the engineering.
Now figure the extreme of the sway with a building this tall.
BTW, in those videos, you can actually see those buildings quiver during the sway.
Instead of fire suppression equipment they have base-jumping parachutes.
The tower of Babel and a bridge too far.
What an incredibly stupid idea, gravity-wise. The costs of construction and maintenance will also be exponentially greater. Not very “green.”
Hope it’s typhoon proof.
Good! I hate wet yen.
I wonder who decided it should look like a fork?