When you think you’ve seen it all and you haven’t; New York based architects have revealed plans to build a skyscraper suspended from an asteroid 50,000 kilometres in the air.
Design studio, Clouds Architecture Office, the same company who designed the Mars Ice Home, have unveiled plans for the Analemma Tower – a skysprapper that will be the world’s tallest and also the world’s most unusual, hanging from an orbiting asteroid in space.
The architects claim the asteroid will be harnessed using the Universal Orbital System (UOSS) which will suspend the building from an asteroid using heavy-duty cables.
‘Analemma Tower is a proposal for the world’s tallest building ever,' the firm writes on its website.
'Harnessing the power of planetary design thinking, it taps into the desire for extreme height, seclusion, and constant mobility. If the recent boom in residential towers proves that sales price per square foot rises with floor elevation, then Analemma Tower will command record prices, justifying its high cost of construction.’
Because the skyscraper will be harnessed to an orbiting asteroid, it’s orbital path will cover the Northern and Southern Hemisphere, traveling through various major cities including Havana, Panama City and New York returning the skyscraper to the same position at the end of each day.
Their proposal for the skyscraper includes a wealth of activities and even has plans to build residential homes, restuarants, shops, offices and dedicated places of worship.
Energy will be used from solar panels and fresh water taken from condensation in the clouds, but what about the practicality of such a project? How will people get on and off the skyscraper? How will heavy duty cables truly hold a skyscraper from an orbiting asteroid?
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