The Cool Unbuilt Structures Thread!

[Perfection]

Count me in

All, right the 10 years starts with this post!

 

[warpus]

Perfection, bring it on!

Chinese masterplanning madness

Gazprom Neft - St. Petersburg - 396m - 77 floors

Palm Islands - Dubai - one of three largest artificial islands in the world

The Palm Islands are located off the coast of The United Arab Emirates in the Persian Gulf and will add 520 km of beaches to the city of Dubai.

The first two islands will comprise approximately 100 million cubic meters of rock and sand. Palm Deira will be composed of approximately 1 billion cubic meters of rock and sand. All materials will be quarried in the UAE. Between the three islands there will be over 100 luxury hotels, exclusive residential beachside villas and apartments, marinas, water theme parks, restaurants, shopping malls, sports facilities and health spas.

The creation of The Palm Jumeirah began in June 2001. Shortly after, The Palm Jebel Ali was announced and reclamation work began. In 2004, The Palm Deira, which will be larger in size than Paris, was announced.

The Palm Jumeirah is currently open for development. Construction will be completed over the next 10-15 years.

Some new tower proposed in Nanjing

 

[Desmond Hawkins]

@warpus: What Chinese city is that supposed to be (in the future)?

 

[warpus]

@warpus: What Chinese city is that supposed to be (in the future)?

The thread I grabbed it from dealt mainly with Beijing.. I'm not really sure though.

 

[Dann]

More China masterplanning madness:

北京 Beijing:

上海 Shanghai:

重庆 Chongqing:

广州 Guangzhou:

杭州 Hangzhou:

宁波 Ningbo:

郑州 Zhengzhou:

How many of these will really get built as planned? It's anybody's guess. Of the lot I have been only to the one at Zhengzhou, and construction is already underway, albeit a bit slow.

 

[Dann]

深圳 Shenzhen:

Both the low sprawling structures (the blue-roofed Citizen's Center and silver Exhibit Center) have already been completed. The city government is working on the center park at the moment. A lot of the other buildings are now under construction as well, funded by private developers.

 

[Dann]

@warpus
That pic you posted is of the planned future CBD of Tianjin.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

How does one get up the two-mile-high tower? Surely you'll need an impractical number of lifts.

What two mile tower?

 

[Perfection]

What two mile tower?

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showpost.php?p=4872738&postcount=16

 

[NKVD]

i just finished my school to be an apprentice electrician...as you doubt not much job in here in winter...looks like there are way more in Dubai!

oh and Perfection do you still do CFCpolis ? i would be in for some neighborhood with Rush Hour

 

[warpus]

Trump Toronto

Hummingbird Centre - Toronto

Future monsters of Dubai

 

[NKVD]

what means burj?

 

[SoCalian]

I ran across this the other day. There were two things that made it really cool. 1. It will rotate. Yes,the tower will rotate a full 360 degrees. 2.It will be solar powered.
http://archive.gulfnews.com/articles/06/11/30/10086170.html

 

[JonnyB]

What if every floor rotated separately?
Dubai puts new spin on skyscrapers

In skyscraper-crazy Dubai, tall isn't enough. In a design to be unveiled this week in the oil-rich emirate, David Fisher, an Italian-Israeli architect, has dreamed up a 68-story combination hotel, apartment and office tower where the floors would rotate 360 degrees. Each floor would rotate independently, creating a constantly changing architectural form.

Each story of the tower would be shaped like a doughnut and be attached to a center core housing elevators, emergency stairs and other utilities. Wind turbines placed in gaps between the doughnuts would generate electricity.

The doughnuts won't rotate fast enough to give guests upset stomachs. A single rotation would take around 90 minutes. "It's quite slow," says Mr. Fisher.

Mr. Fisher's isn't the first plan for a rotating tower in Dubai. Last year, a local developer showed off plans for a 30-story 200-unit condominium tower that would rotate one revolution per day. Solar panels would drive the rotation mechanism.

It is hard to say whether the plans are simply rotating pies in the sky -- or projects that will actually be erected. But given what has been built in Dubai already, anything seems possible so long as oil prices remain high.

And a really cool video showing how it could look.

 

[Heretic_Cata]

what means burj?

Burj = tower (in arabic)

 

[Tee Kay]

omg future Chongqing looked just like Manhattan!

 

[ParkCungHee]

I've yet to find a picture of it, but I know construction began on "The Idol of Fascism" in Italy, the plans called for it to be three times the size of the Statue of Liberty.

 

[Drewcifer]

I wonder how much crossover there is between skyscrapercity.com and civfanatics? There was a video game thread over there and it seems like half the people listed Civ 4 as their favorite video game.

Anyway the coolest proposed skycraper for Minneapolis is the Nicollet. It was originally proposed as a condo tower but if it is built it may end up being mostly hotel and offices. It is not a supertall but it is 656' or 200 meters

Spoiler :

 

[Heretic_Cata]

I've yet to find a picture of it, but I know construction began on "The Idol of Fascism" in Italy, the plans called for it to be three times the size of the Statue of Liberty.

That sounds intresting. Who would it have represented ?

 

[Heretic_Cata]

The pyramid city in Tokyo

Spoiler :