Awesome futuristic buildings

Like many of you, I'm a big fan of fantastic architecture, so check out this one:

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Amazing architecture! Which one do you like the best?


The skyscraper with the independently-rotating floors floored me.

My favorite is the Crescent Hydropolis Underwater Resort.



How could you go wrong?

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I'll tell you how you could go wrong.


Dubai will go down in history as a huge failure. First they have strict laws on alcohol and drugs. Who wants to go to an amazing tourist destination and not be able to have a drink?

I know of someone who got three years in prison there for bringing porn into the country. You can't be the new vegas without that industry.

They're biting off more then they can chew. If I'm not mistaken much of the construction down there has halted considerably, and there's no way they're gonna be able to pay for all the dumb crap they're building over there. I mean even if I was a billionaire, do I really want an overpriced condo in the middle of a wasteland?

Speaking of wasteland, they've wasted their water too. The fools over there destroyed much of their irreplaceable coral reefs so they could make islands shaped like palm trees, wooohooo, retards. Way to trash the eco system for a novelty island.

The place should be considered a total disgrace by real people across the globe, but instead everyone thinks its so cool. It isn't. It's a total failure.

good bye Dubai.

The Dragonfly Vertical Farm is far and away my favourite out of those.

It just looks so fantastically sci-fi and verdant!

Can you imagine those in our cities? Useful and pretty to look at!

How could you go wrong?

I like the concept of vertical farms in the city but am not so sure that is where you want them...

Now line the Mississippi with them and double our food out put... that's another story!

I thought the underwater resort concept was pretty cool. But then again, I've always wanted to be AquaWoman.

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I could look at this stuff all day. Thanks for posting.

(Now if they could only be built at more fun places than Dubai)

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Hi Skyfloating,


Yea, no kidding -- why Dubai? Hot hellhole, I hear it is.


I've had dreams/ideas of building floating cities, complete with underwater sections, skyscrapers, lagoons that connect with the sea, homes, businesses, farms, boating harbors and so on. But the current state of our world won't allow for such a creation -- both on the weather aspects, as well as the financial/monetary aspects -- both of which severely restriction such ideas to flourish. In the coming 4-D dimension, though, YES, they can be created, for sure.


And your handle, "Skyfloating" alludes to another idea that I have and that is to build floating cities up in the sky, both in the sky close to Earth, as well as up in space. Again, 4-D will see a lot of those and I totally look forward to that.

Was this one in that collection? I didn't see it but I don't think I looked at them all.




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I'd rather live in Japan than Dubai - I can drink those middle aged Japanese business guys under the table and leave with their girlfriends before breakfast

I'd really like to see that one built in my life time.

I really liked the underwater resort one. I could live with that because it is completely different in some ways and similiar in others.

I really liked the underwater resort one. I could live with that because it is completely different in some ways and similiar in others.

Muslims

I've some met some nice people who are not into either tobacco or alcohol, and have no interest in gambling.

There is a market there, dude.

Just thought i would add to your /our wish list of technologically 'green' architecture...

going verticle has its up & downs

link:
weburbanist.com...




there's at least a dozen pics of the above noted conceptual eco-friendly structures or urban planning models that are presented here...

the future ain't all gloom-&-doom it seems

They are amazing. Thanks for posting. I actually liked the one designed for China, in a quarry. I thought it was awesome. It would be my pick if I could visit one.

I wasn't too fond of the egg shaped one, though. It seemed a little too odd. In too much opposition to it's surroundings.

As far as Dubai, my nephew was there last year, and while the televisions in the hotel rooms have notes asking you to respect their laws/religion, and notifying you that you will be asked to leave if you are not respectful, you can go to a bar and request the bartender to send you a Thailand prostitute, and go elsewhere in the bar with her, for compensated *romance* shall we say.

You have to leave the hotel if you watch sexual activity on television, but go downstairs and have it live. Just strikes me as kinda odd.
Nonsensical.

But the buildings are beautiful, and there's some indication that some of them might actually be built. Cool.

For those of you who like this kind of stuff, there is a terrific blog: bldgblog.blogspot.com...

Loads of fascinating content.

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Regarding Dubai, i can speak with a certain amount of inside knowledge as i currently live there! You are absolutely right that it is a city/emirate of contradictions.

Alcohol is widely available - in fact as night's on the town go, it's pretty good! All the bars are part of the hotels here, as are most of the nightclubs. It is certainly not Saudi Arabia when it comes to alcohol. Abd regarding drugs (in a previous post), correct me if i am wrong, but the whole world has "strict rules" regarding drugs - they are illegal in nearly every country in the world!

I'm not aware that the underwater place is currently being built - the construction on "The World" group of islands has halted, as have a lot of land based projects also, but construction does continue - just at a slower pace than before.

As regards futuristic buildings, can i add the following:

The artists impression:



Now the real thing:





This is FerrariWorld Abu Dhabi. The building itself is finished, and is currently being fitted out. It is the largest indoor theme park in the world, and is wholly based around the Ferrari Brand. The structure of the building is also the largest spaceframe in the world - 200,000m2.

Look out for it on TV during the F1 Grand Prix on November 1st (Abu Dhabi). It is located at the hairpin bend next to the track, and shold feature heavily in the helicopter shots.

In fact, this building is the reason I came here in the first place, as i worked on its construction!

In Dubai merely hugging your spouse is frowned upon. And its also arid. Hot. Despite the beautiful architecture, the place lacks heart. And by "heart" I dont mean a Thailand Prostitute.



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Floating-cities, Flying-cities, Ocean-Cities....thats what I was expecting before I was born here but the travel-angels made a mistake and incarnated me 400 years earlier than expected.

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Fancy seeing you here!!! It's currently around 35 degrees. Nice and warm! Although in July/August it can get to 50 degrees, with 90% humidity day after day. Yes....that's not very nice at all! Heat stress, heat exhaustion and even death are likely occurrences, especially in construction. And that's just from the weather.

But between now and, say, April, it's actually really really nice weather.

And yes...prostitution is rife. There is apparently somehting like 20,000 prostitutes in Dubai city alone - i suppose becasue most perople who come here do so to earn more money, and come alone (men). Men + No woman + Money to burn + alcohol = Prostitute heaven!