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TOKYO SKY CITY, JAPAN

Also known as :

Sky City 1000

LOCATION ?

TOKYO, JAPAN

asupertall skyscraperin
theTokyometropolitan
area, announced in 1989
during the height of the
Japanese asset price bubb
le
.

ARCHITECTS?

Takenaka Corporation

TYPE?

 Hotel,
Office,
Residential

BUILDING
HEIGHT & NO.
OF STOREYS ?

196 STOREYS
HIGH
1,000m
(3,300ft)

PLAN ?

The plan consists of

a building 1,000
metres (3,281ft) tall
and 400m (1,312ft)
wide at the base,
and a total floor area
of 8km2.

MATERIALS USED ?

STEEL
GLASS
CONCRETE

WHY THIS TOWER

IS SO FAMOUS ?

It is a hypothetical
architectural
project.

If completed, the Sky

City 1000 would be
the tallest man-made
structure in the world,
edging out theBurj
Khalifain Dubai. It
would share this
record with
Kingdom Tower.

The design, proposed in

1989 byTakenaka
Corporation, would
house between
35,000and 36,000fulltime residents, as well
as 100,000 workers.

It comprises 14 concave
dish-shaped "Space
Plateaus" stacked one
upon the other.

The interior of the plateaus

would contain greenspace,
and on the edges, on the
sides of the building, would be
the apartments. Also included
in the building would be
offices, commercial facilities,
schools,
theatres, and other modern

Since its announcement, it has

gained a lot of attention from the
world'sarchitecturalestablishment,
and was featured on
Discovery Channel's
Extreme Engineeringin 2003.

Land prices in Japan were the highest

in the world at the time, andKisho
Kurokawa, one of Japan's most
famous architects, has said that
staggeringly ambitious buildings
employing highly sophisticated
engineering are still cheap, because
companies pay 90% of the cost for
the land and only 10% for the
building

 Tokyo's onlyfire helicopterhas

even been used in simulation tests
to see what the danger would be if
a fire were to break out in the
building.
Triple-decker high speedelevators
which would be used in the building
are also being designed in labs
outside Tokyo.

 Although this project has gained

more serious attention than many
of its alternatives, it can be
considered similar to projects as
density,mixed useconcepts such
asLe Corbusier'sVille Radieuse.

SKY TOWER
IN
INDIA

India Tower(previously known as

thePark Hyatt Tower; also known as
theDynamix Balwas TowerorDB Tower)

LOCATION ?

Charni Road,Mumbai, INDIA

HEIGHT ?

It is a 126 storey, 718-metre (2,356ft)

supertallskyscraperthat began
construction in the city ofMumbai,
India, in 2010. Construction work was
put on hold in 2011.

ARCHITECT ?

Foster and Partners

TYPE ?

Hotel,
Residential,
Retail

 The Dynamix Balwasrealtorgroup first

proposed the project, under the name
ofPark Hyatt Tower, in 2008.
The Dynamix Balwas proposal would have
been an 85-storey tower with a height of
301.1 metres (988ft).
The project was subsequently dropped,
before being revived and amended in 2010.
In January 2010, theBrihanmumbai
Municipal Corporation
authorised the tower's construction on a
site located atCharni RoadinGirgaon,
southern Mumbai, just north of Mumbai's
historical CBD (Central Business District).

LETS GET INSPIRED!

DESIGN HIGH!!