Euroscraper

I mean it looks OK to me, but what will it be like to go to work in a place that looks like and Onion Ring? Till someone draws out the point I don't get it on this one?

Regards

if you look at the whole artilce there are 2 replies there...both negative.

This sort of thing is fine as long as you don't try to use it for housing...Corbusier's been there, done that, screwed it up already.

Here in the UK it amazes me that people go no about overcrowding and pressure on the land....even in the 'overcroded south' if you fly out of London Stansted you have great difficulty even seeing a town.

The reason we have overcrowding is just to keep house prices up!

Hoorah for market forces....good old Magie Thatcher...sell the council house..then forget to build any more...

Can some one help me down from this soap box....rant over.

What a total and complete nightmare!

Some of the concepts architects are dreaming up scare the crap out of me as an engineer. How on earth are you meant to build something like this. Even if you did build it how the hell do you get the lifts to go up and down the curved lift shafts.

The thing that makes skyscrapers and tall buildings viable is their relative ease in construction. Each subsequent level is really a copy of the one below it and construction is just a matter of repeating the process with minimal changes from level to level. Whith something like this each individual level is a completely different shape. In other words you need to start from scratch with each floor and this would make it very expensive to construct.

My personal engineering philosophy is to make whatever you are designing practical, workable and constructible and then and only after it all the problems have been resolved start worrying about aesthetics. However, some of the designs that have been showing up of recent seem to be completely ignoring the practical engineering and concentrating only on the cosmetic aspects.

C'mon Masu...

It's easy...you just build the hole in the middle first then bolt everything onto that!

Beautiful in form and concept -- express elevators might be interesting though?

I have been to the Luxor in Las Vegas. The fancy elevators are not express; they do get you there.

Perhaps as buildings get more extravagant there will be enough inspiration to finally get those "Star Trek" matter transmitters going? They might just come up with a new building design where you really cannot get "from here to there?"

Masu,

That is the difference between the Gingerbeer and the Archichoke. Gingerbeers at least try and be practical, wheras Archichokes are free to dream up the impractical, change their minds several times per hour and generally annoy the hell out of the tradesmen that actually have to make the damned thing work.

No worries mate, I know a couple of good blokes with their own scaffolding company, they would have a go...........

Um..I've just read the blurb, it say's

'The building's looping form reduces its resistance to wind,'

I'm sort of hoping that's a case of fat finger syndrome?

Umm, you are going to build an elevator for a Doughnut?

Go for it, and Win

What about the "real-estate foot print to usable building space" ratio. This just might be the most expensive building ever proposed. If this was the third place winner, what came in 1st and 2nd?

-A-

Maybe two certified copies of an outback dunny from somewhere inland of Birdsville?