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Patrick said:
A district that is really shaping up quite nicely is the supertall area of Shanghai, with Shanghai world financial center and its new neighbor now in construction. Very nice.
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Correction: a skyline that is shaping up quite nicely. As a district, aka a place people will inhabit and walk around, it's godawful towers-in-a-park on a scale that would make even Le Corbusier blush. Pedestrian friendly it ain't.
 
kz1000ps said:
Correction: a skyline that is shaping up quite nicely. As a district, aka a place people will inhabit and walk around, it's godawful towers-in-a-park on a scale that would make even Le Corbusier blush. Pedestrian friendly it ain't.
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Good point, but in the literature it is usually referred to as Shanghai's Super Tall "District." It is the first of its kind in the city. It is zoned, apparently, to attract and encourage nothing but super talls. I agree with you though. I like neighborhoods with vibrancy, traditional street layouts, and mixed uses with park benches, well landscaped areas, and nice lighting, not office parks in the sky. However, many of these new buildings are incorporating sky gardens, which some think are a good substitute for the public places of yesteryear. I read an interesting article on them if you would care to read it I can post the link. If the authors are right, then such areas are indeed "districts" that are shaping up nicely, albeit vertically.
 
that new shanghai tower looks like the greatest thing since sliced bread, but i wonder if the final product is going to be so transparent...
 
I think it looks a tad bit like a bread-slicer, actually. The one with the hole, I mean. The other one looks like tissue paper or something, very cool.

My favorite skyscrapers are the ones that are so fluid looking, so smooth that they almost look like they're in motion when viewed from different vantage points.
 
kz1000ps said:
Correction: a skyline that is shaping up quite nicely. As a district, aka a place people will inhabit and walk around, it's godawful towers-in-a-park on a scale that would make even Le Corbusier blush. Pedestrian friendly it ain't.
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Did you go there personally? I agree with much of what you said, but it is improving rapidly.
 
kennedy said:
I think it looks a tad bit like a bread-slicer, actually. The one with the hole, I mean. The other one looks like tissue paper or something, very cool.

My favorite skyscrapers are the ones that are so fluid looking, so smooth that they almost look like they're in motion when viewed from different vantage points.
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I like the Shanghai tower that was completed most recently, with the circle shape at top. It is simple and one of the best designs around in my opinion. I think the newest super tall there is a bit too modern. I am interested by the new tower, but I don't necessarily think it is a great design. Kind of looks like a magazine rolled up. I think it is supposed to be transparent on the outer edges, because if I remeber correctly it is built around a solid core, but we'll see. It is supposed to have the tallest open air observatory in the world. Its something like 1,500+ feet tall, which is short these days. Have you guys seen the nakeel tower or the kingdom tower plans? I'm not sure if they will be built as currently designed, but their height is staggering. Of the ten tallest buildings in the world, a majority were built last year. Interesting.

Nakheel:
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compare this to the empire state building:
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the technology exists to build one kilometer high, but the economy is not capable of demanding this much space right now, obviously.
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Kingdom tower:
haha now compare the burj dubai to the kingdom tower, keeping in mind how small the empire state building (itself a super tall at over 1000 feet) looks in the previous comparison picture.

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edit: the last picture isn't of the kingdom tower, I thought it was.
 
Patrick said:
I like the Shanghai tower that was completed most recently, with the circle shape at top. It is simple and one of the best designs around in my opinion. I think the newest super tall there is a bit too modern. I am interested by the new tower, but I don't necessarily think it is a great design. Kind of looks like a magazine rolled up. I think it is supposed to be transparent on the outer edges, because if I remeber correctly it is built around a solid core, but we'll see. It is supposed to have the tallest open air observatory in the world. Its something like 1,500+ feet tall, which is short these days. Have you guys seen the nakeel tower or the kingdom tower plans? I'm not sure if they will be built as currently designed, but their height is staggering. Of the ten tallest buildings in the world, a majority were built last year. Interesting.

Nakheel:
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compare this to the empire state building:
tower1.jpg

the technology exists to build one kilometer high, but the economy is not capable of demanding this much space right now, obviously.
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Kingdom tower:
haha now compare the burj dubai to the kingdom tower, keeping in mind how small the empire state building (itself a super tall at over 1000 feet) looks in the previous comparison picture.

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edit: the last picture isn't of the kingdom tower, I thought it was.
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The Shanghai World Financial Center has a trapezoid at the top, not a circle. Most of the new middle-eastern supertalls are atrocious, the only one with semi-good design is Burj Dubai, all the others are things that were proposed when they had so much oil money they didn't know how to spend it all.
 
A lot of those look like weird, alternate-reality SciFi movie towers. Very brooding and evil looking, like the big tower in "I, Robot" or from the "Back to the Future" movie. Like, some perverted form of a feudal lord's manor. Especially Al Burj, Mubarak, and to some extent, Nakheel.
 
We missed one of the most WOW!/Architecture Porn proposals out there; Norman Foster's Crystal Island in Moscow. Self-sustaining city, one of the tallest and most voluminous structures on Earth. And apparently, it's actually been approved.

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kennedy said:
We missed one of the most WOW!/Architecture Porn proposals out there; Norman Foster's Crystal Island in Moscow. Self-sustaining city, one of the tallest and most voluminous structures on Earth. And apparently, it's actually been approved.

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kinda like the x seed 3000 or whatever its called in tokyo , not approved yet
 
It's approved, but they're not going to have the money to build it for a while. For something a little more exotic, the Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang is looking good with its cladding:

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I wonder if the Ryugyong will fall over when they start moving in the furnishings. I've read that it's constructed of low quality concrete that has weakened during the time that the shell was open to the elements.
 
Its my understanding that the x seed 4000 was never approved because it was never intended to be built. I thought I read that the firm which designed it, did so to gain international recognition, not to actually render services to a client. I know it is the largest building ever fully envisioned (according to wikipedia) meaning the construction plans were actually drawn out, but I don't think (unless wiki is wrong, which is a good possibility) that it was ever intended to be built. However, there is a very similar project somewhere in Russia (a mini city really) that I believe has been approved but is not in the construction process. The x seed as designed would be
 
Beton Brut said:
I wonder if the Ryugyong will fall over when they start moving in the furnishings. I've read that it's constructed of low quality concrete that has weakened during the time that the shell was open to the elements.
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It looks to be refurbished, before the cladding the edges were crumpling off but now they look much more solid.
 
That Ryungyong is a better joke than anything you will find on comedy central.
 
Honestly, it looks like it came from the Team America: World Police movie.
 
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