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| world's tallest towers |
The
towers will be built in the city of Wuhan in China, with one to some extent
taller than the other. With a designed height of approximately a kilometre, the
tallest of the couple will edge out the Burj Khalifa in Dubai as the tallest
building in the world.
They’ll
also be two of the mainly environmentally friendly buildings ever made.
According to Adele Peters at FastCompany, the pair will be built on an island,
and the bigger tower will be responsible for 'feeding' sustainable power to the
smaller tower. It will also be responsible for clean-up its surrounds by
pulling water up out of the lake, clean-up it, and then putting it back.
“The
water goes up from beginning to end a series of filters,” said Laurie Chetwood,
chairman of UK-based Chetwoods architect firm in indict of the project. “We
don’t use power to pull the water up, we’re using reflexive energy. As it goes
through the filters and back, we’re also putting air back into the lake to make
it improved, healteher and green ”
additional
friendly features:
"Thetallest towers also have pollution-absorbing
coatings to help clean the air, perpendicular gardens that clean more
pollution, and a chimney in the center of the larger tower naturally pulls air
across the lake for better freshening. Wind turbines, lightweight solar
cladding, and hydrogen fuel cells running on the buildings’ throw away waste will
generate all of the power used by the towers, plus a little extra for the rest
of the neighbourhood."
Once
approved , constructionwill be planned to start at the end of the year, with a
completion date of 2017-8 or 2019.
.
"I
think they’re incredibly hopeful. If you have an idea and you think, 'Oh, is
this going to be too thrilling, they’ll actually want it more thrilling. It’s
more determined. They’re quite keen to push the limits. For a designer, that’s unbelievable.
It’s a adventure."
