X-Seed 4000; Architectural Self-Abuse

Now this is fabulous, in every sense. The X-Seed 4000, a 13,000 ft. building which would house up to a million residents! What do you think? Not currently feasible, but a nice exercise in green-thinking. Not that I’m normally given to fits of claustrophobia, but the thing kind-of freaks me out. Maybe I’m spending too much time fishing…

There’s a lot of debate about what the tallest tower in the world currently is. Some say the Taipei 101, at 1671 ft to the tip of it’s spire, is the world’s tallest tower, whereas we might argue that the Sears Tower, at a whopping 1731 ft (and 110 stories), still takes the prize. However, if the enormous, 13,000 ft X-Seed 4000 structure ever gets built in Tokyo – it will win the worlds-tallest-building competition hands down and leave its puny competitors in the dirt.

Looking eerily like Mt. Doom in the above rendering, the mountain-like X-Seed 4000 represents a utopian eco-vision for a self-contained high-rise city in the Tokyo harbor – powered mainly by solar energy. Aesthetically inspired by nearby Mt. Fuji, the behemoth building would measure 13,123 feet tall with a 6 square-kilometer footprint, and could accommodate five hundred thousand to one million inhabitants.

via the always fabulous Inhabitat