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The Taisei Construction Company is thinking about building a 13,123 feet high building called The X-Seed 4000. It would be the equivalent of 9 Empire State buildings.

• 13,123 feet high
• room for 1 million residents
• 800 floors
• would cost $300-900 billion

The likelihood of this happening is very slim. The article I linked to sounded optimistic, not really realistic. It's going to be built on water since Japan has so little land. I definitely want to see it happen though. I would never want to live in it.

Labels: architecture, crazy, Japan

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zecc ARCHITECTEN converted this water tower in Soest, Utrecht, Netherlands into a residence. It came out pretty cool. I especially like the top bedroom, which is kept kind of open to the whole house. It'll be weird to have a big party though. I think of it more like a secret lair where you can start your nightly patrol off the top. I don't know where you could have a secret room to hide your costumes though.

Labels: architecture, cool

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