Actually, many medieval churches on a regular basis were built for around hundred of years from the start by many generations of workers. So nothing impressive about it.
i doubt it would work. There are several skyscrapers in my city (Vancouver) that have attempted to grow large vegetation along the outside curtain of the building and it hasn't worked. There is one infamous building here that has a tree on the top that has died and been replaced twice in the past 30 years, and costs an average of $10 thousand a year to keep it alive. Another building wanted bushes to envelope the building but not a single one of them took root. It has been 10 years now and none of them have grown. The bushes don't like the wind and harsh conditions. And then there is the weight of the soil to consider. That many trees would be HEAVY!!!
I think the first 3 is within the realm of possibility within this century or after, the latter half tho...lol straight out of Japanese cyberpunk megacities, unless we finally harness the full potential of carbon nanotubes or yet to exist futuristic construction materials/tech, we won't see those within an eon. And I'm not even mentioning the financial feasibility costs of this. lol Japan truly are great visionaries.
One day humanity will built these Kind of structures. But I think we are still a couple hundred to a thousand years away till this will become reality. The structures remind me of anthills. Its not that bad of a idea to imitate nature.
Humanity would never be able to build these buildings even in million years, but robots however, they could build it in months if not shorter, we are not the future or our planet, our robot does
It doesn't need to be shorter to exsist. Building it at the exact height, which is 1000 m is actually possible as there are skyscrapers in construction which their height is similar as the Sky City such as the Jeddah Tower in Saufi Arabia.
@@vinaashvicky145 Yes and no. Height is not in fact everything. The point of building like the Sky Tower is to get as much additional floor space as possible. Jeddah Tower and the Berj Khalifa are both compromise designs where it's more important that they be tall for the sake of being tall. They're prestige buildings above all else. Heck, Jeddah Tower's last inhabited floor is at 2/3rds of the building's height, same for the Berj. The rest is an architectural spire for the sake of breaching the 1000 meter mark. This vastly simplifies a lot of the challenges that came with building these mega tall buildings. They're very thin so that they're under less wind stress, and heavily tapered to reduce the static load on the lower floors and foundation, and they also have to accommodate less utility traffic because there's just not all that much floor space above around 300 meters. But it also means that there's a serious point of diminishing returns in terms of the floor space you gain for each additional level after that point. For instance - Berj Khalifa - 3.3 million square feet of floor space Jeddah Tower - 2.6 million square feet of floor space . . . Empire State Building - 2.7 million square feet of floor space Manhattan's Grandpa aint fairing too bad against those young whipersnappers in terms of utility. Sky city, as proposed, would have been a whopping 86 million square feet of floor space because it wasn't just tall, it was broad, and tapered very little between the ground and its highest floors.
Fun fact: tokyo has more population than Canada and nearly 1 thousand times more population than Greenland. Size of tokyo is 1000 sq^km Size of Greenland 2400000sq^km Size of Canada 10000000sq^km
That No. 2 the X-Seed 4000 was also shown in the anime called "Dimension W" a Sci-fi genre where the building is some sort of new power plant that dithces out the use of Nuclear Energy to a Modern source of power. it also serves as what you tell in the video as housing but not for all the people but for those elites and government official.
X-seed looks huge and for 1 million people, meanwhile in the Warhammer 40k lore there are hive cities for 4 billion people, how enormous would those be o_O
@@_martian101 That sounds like questionable lore at best. The moon would house 230 billion people if it had the population density of the Tokyo area. The avg. suburban population density would put the moon at around 75 Billion inhabitants.
And this isn't even counting M.O.T.H.E.R., the Spiral, Seiren 21, the Millennium Tower, the Dynamic Intelligent Building, and the Holonic Tower, all of which are taller than the Tokyo Skytree.
That thumbnail's super skycraper Looks like a pyramid City what's awesome and skycrapers are one of reasons why i Want visit in Japan. Country of The Rising sun IS amazing. 🇯🇵
None of these buildings shown in this video will ever be realized, ever. Lol. Shimizu Pyramid completed by 2110? Nonsense, except in anime though. It appears Sky Mile Tower just got canceled recently. Just as I suspected. Lol. There is no hope for these projects in Japan. Only in pipe dreams, and anime.
"The pyramid building is inspired by the Great Pyramid at Giza." What?! No frickin' way! Anyway, I'm taking that second mega project wholesale for my 'City of Yesterday's Tomorrows' story concept. It's a great layout for my semi-bioshock inspired region (mostly the aesthetics and a much lighter version of the theme). I'm already using the main layout for the original EPCOT concept for my steampunk zone, so why not this too?
Japanese are very polite to tourists, at least to me... but very limited options to become citizens.. or work unless via JET.. There's no excuse for the population problem when Japan has all that money.. They simply overwork their people and fail to subsidize families with children or they can go a cheaper route by working to close the communication gap paying construction foremen to learn spanish/english or pay Southeast Asians Japanese to do low paying jobs to allow them to help care the aging population
The pyramid building is arguably one of the worst design ideas ever. Even if it would be possible to build such a horrible structure, imagine living in a building within a building without real sunlight and just looking at other non natural structures, especially from the lower levels.. Besides that, mega buildings always become some kind of slum or failed community. Horrible, hopefully we will never be able to build something like that.
*Ok let's take the time to understand how this would never work:* So first thing I notice is that the Tokyo Tower of Babel will be 10,000 meter tall, and we know that the Burj Khalifa is 800. Thing is, The Burj Khalifa is already on the verge of touching the clouds already. So how in the heck will they be able to get past 3000 meters without having trouble breathing? It's just very confusing to understand, and also, getting over 8000 feet is already dangerous as heck so how are they going to do 5x that?!?! Oh yeah and also our troposphere ends at 33,000 feet so the building will basically be at that height, but the building will probably have some kind of pole at the op, so good luck Tokyo!!!!
This does not mention Green Float which would not just be tall buildings but large floating islands. Hell, you could start with one and start moving the population there as it grows.
The problem with most mega towers is that they exist to solve a problem that only really exist due to extreme distortions in land usage that can be better solved by more modest structures because - 1. Building 'Up' isn't a free action. It costs money to build tall. And it costs money to maintain tall structures. Which is why tall buildings tend to be built in places with absurdly high land prices that can justify 'creating' more space by building upward. 2. Even in those places with absurdly high land prices, they don't tend to be this desperate for floor space. There is a limit beyond which the economics just don't make sense. 3. Even when you do become this desperate for floor space, at some point, it's often cheaper to just start developing elsewhere. Japan is in an unusual position that Tokyo is by far some of the most favorable land to build on in the country. Not just because it's already built up, but due to the valuable Tokyo Bay.
What is amazing is that at the center of the world economy before the collapse of the bubble economy, they were not just dreaming, but seriously thinking about this concept and had the technological capability to make it possible even in an earthquake-prone country as long as they had the financial resources to do so.
What’s the point? Japanese population is shrinking fast. By the time any of these structures actually getting built, Tokyo at the current state would have plenty of space for the shrunk population.
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collect water instead of pumping water, wasn't expecting that ideal for skyscraper, make you wounder if steaming water would also be cheaper then pumping and any unused water could be use as a water fall.
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Interesting, but as Japan's population is calculated to fall by about 50% by the end of the Century, probably not the most sensible projects to pursue.
They are what happens when arrogance takes over wisdom. They also indicate that they are the only living thing in the area, imagine the shadow they cast. I sincerely hope they never ever get built.
All I'm saying is, if any of these ever get approved, they better damn well be using metal thick and strong enough to withstand a damn airplane. What a damn disgrace it would be to kill 55,000 people in a single go. Wow. Also, the built it fire distinguishing system better be pristine and work perfectly as well. A fire should never spread more than a single room.
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Why they are unable to think about covering the whole width (300Km) of the Japanese islands with a patch of protective transparent umbrella-like dome structure which can open and retract to withstand Tsunamis and rising sea-levels; instead of looking for unrealistic mega-models? All we need is a protective cover against Tsunamis like the Hira cave! It is like extending a transparent patch of sea-wall from all sides caving the existing buildings of Japan against Tsunamis and rising sea-levels. For example, extending upwards a sea-wall from all sides of Tokyo city to cover it above like a dome structure during the Tsunami days; whilst rest of the time, the dome structure will be retracted and the walls will guard against rising sea level as standing sea-walls. In that way, we will be able to provide Tsunami cover to 13.75 million people of Tokyo city without disturbing the Existing Buildings and City Plan. Likewise, the Japanese Government will do good to take care of the entire nation against Tsunamis and possible sea-rise. Maldives is another archipelago island nation which will do good if, it follows this good example of providing sea-wall dome cover to protect its half a million population.
Every structure, apart from the pyramid is most likely to fail. The way the world is moving, it is no surprise you will have to contend with more than just simple earthquakes and floods. Extreme winds and temperatures will take effect over the next 80+ years. While the pyramid structure will be the most solid, it is still not perfect as outlined.
I gotta go with the Pyramid for it's classic looks and being possible to build more than the other bigger projects. Still you could probably build Palm Island in Dubai for alot less and faster. However, maybe Saudi Arabia may choose to build one of these. ;-)
Why would any of these projects or any future projects of this enormity ever go forward in Japan now that that Tokyo's population is in decline? The current population of Tokyo is currently adequately housed, and the population is not increasing, so there will likely never be a need for much more housing, right?
Structures that can "withstand the wrath of nature" but can't support their own weight against gravity using current technology. I thought gravity was part of nature.
"No." That's my answer even before I heard the question. ("Do you think any of these structures will be built in the future?") God, they are ugly... maybe except #3... but barely. Inspiring, that some people - organizations?.. - think on this kind of timeline ("finishing the building in 2150" or smth.) Thanks for showing these monsters anyway::)
I see one good earthquake taking out most of these, and Japan (humans in general actually, to be fair) only learn from its mistakes as we saw with the tsunami and nuclear reactor disaster. So, it makes ZERO sense to build up so high. These aren't mega towers, these are mega money pits. Though I felt very strong vibes of Logan's Run on the X-Seed 4000. Very strong vibes. And if any to be built if they did choose/HAD to, my money would be on the pyramid design ones.
The most insane thing about these megaprojects was exemplified in the TV show, Foundation. A futuristic world where millions of people live within a single structure... can you imagine if a terrorist took out a building of this size, or say, there was a war and one country decided to re-enact Hiroshima/Nagasaki??? Or even if there were to be a critical failure within the building's infrastructure, unforeseen and not noticed until it's too late? This is even more of a likely scenario in Japan, which literally is at risk of huge 8+ earthquakes all the time, and also volcanic eruptions and tsunamis. All it takes is a 8+ earthquake to make the earth shift, and the entire project would come crashing down... cause surprise, no building foundation can spontaneously grow an extension to accommodate a new landmass. Millions would be killed in an instant. While the projects look cool on paper, as far as Japan goes, these megaprojects are probably some of the worst ideas mankind can come up with. It'd be more realistic and safe to just build regular skyscrapers instead. Ones which if they fell, it'd still be a tragedy, but nowhere near to the same scale that is unimaginable under the scenario of these megaprojects. Also, the sheer altitude of many of the projects would mean much of these buildings upper structures being bombarded by heavy snowfall for a large chunk of the year, so there's that to consider too.
Once humanity ends energy scarcity; which I believe we are near achieving with battery storage supplamenting nuclear and renewable energy, coupled with automation, A.I., and mining the Moon, Mars and Beyond, would make the costs of auch mega structures significantly less. Many young people site our global environmental crisis, economic struggles, political unreat, being overworked, etc, as reasons not to bring children into the world. However, if humanity does solve the environmental, energy, resource, and political issues, the stability and peace doing auch would bring humanity; could being forth a global populating boom. Also, such mega atructures could help humanity live in a way that is more efficiant ald less wasteful; due to building our cities more verticle. IAs an example; if San Srancisco had as many sky scrapers as New Your City, the whole of the San Francisco Bay Area could live in San Francisco, ana le the rest of the area to be returned to a more natural environment. Flatter cities are far less eficiant due to taking up more land, the distances needed to travel, etc. It is also possible ending energy scarcity, resource scarcity, economic disparity, etc, could stabalize population growth, as we are seeing industrialization bring lower birth rates. If we do colonize the Moon, Mars, and beyond, I can see such colonies having population booms due to pleanty of usable space; especialy once these colonies are self sustaining. The mega structures explored on this and other channeles are also more feasable on such colonies due to lower gravity, availability of resources, etc. Future materials could make these structures also more feasable, along with future advancements in robotics, A.I., and automation. Small and mini modular reactors would also make it easier to power such huge structures, while being able to be converted to fusion and even matter and anti-matter reactors as these technologies mature.
Something with a broad-based pyramidal shape would be far more stable than large groups of individual towers as constructed today. Not requiring independent weatherproof envelopes and lateral support, internal structures would be lighter and less expensive. Smaller sections could be completed at a time, so the enormous cost could be spread over decades, while occupation commenced almost immediately. When economic factors stalled building, the already completed sections would continue producing income. However the fancy ribbons on the featured pyramid project seem like engineering fantasies, and are impractical.
The thing with all these mega projects is that every single one of them is economicaly unrealistic. The answer to these types of problems lies elsewhere. And as strange as it might sound the closest to solving it a few decades ago were comunists. Specifically with their large panel buildings ("panelák" in czech). The reason being quite simple - easy, fast and cheap to manufacture yet quite durable.
why would you include dead, or "if it were ever to be completed" projects? they're not real, they're not happening, so why would you include them, and that includes sky mile tower or anything that's concept only. it's deceptive for views and tbh, i'm tempted to activate the "don't recommend this channel." you've produced a video about nothing. you could have taken this in a completely different direction but you didn't. poor decision😠
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the only place in Japan for any of this is offshore rocks. on the mainland as I've said building cascade linkage everywhere is the where to put future stuff. quint but correct tucked away everywhere assimilating popular scales. as for this stuff it all needs redesigned for uninhabitable offshore boulders
I hate to be a buzz killer but frankly Japan needs prototypes, things we can build a thousand of. but some people wanting to modernize still go down with the Yamato. the point is Why not all of us is often the question. another great question is how linkage can reclaim more of the uninhabitable and impassible straits. prototypical developments should focus more on rural areas.
Tokyo architects seem to have a habit of designing structures supported by widespread "legs" rather than being built directly on the ground. The Sky City 1000 and Tower of Babel would both be more doable if they were built with a solid core stretching from bottom to top.
The world population will start declining in the next few decades and Japan's workforce will begin contracting before that. So by the time a project of these sizes can break ground the need will have evaporated assuming you can even get the necessary raw materials and workers.
No buildings collapsed in Tokyo during the Great East Japan Earthquake. Therefore, the collapsed building at 0:12 is not in Tokyo. Please provide correct evidence when citing sources.
