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Architects Designed A Skyscraper
That Hangs From an Asteroid
New York Firm Clouds Architecture Office have designed a skyscraper that
would hang from an asteroid to bypass current building height restrictions
Being the most densely populated dis-
trict in New York City, Manhattan has the
most Industrial buildings and skyscrapers
there is in the area. However, due to state
laws, building a skyscraper has its height
restrictions, so you can only build so high
until it becomes illegal. The solution to
this? Why not build a tower suspended
by super strong cables and attached to
an asteroid?
The New York Architecture firm Clouds
Architecture Office proposed the outra-
geous yet interesting idea as a way to
bypass building restrictions. Since the
tower won’t be stuck to the ground, the
state laws technically don’t apply, so they
can build the tower to be as high as they
wish.
Named the “Analemma Tower”, it would
become the world’s tallest building- that
is, if it ever gets to be constructed in the
first place. Logically, this tower still has
no plans whatsoever to be constructed.
Ostap Rudakevych, founding partner of
Clouds Architecture Office said that the
firm had only designed this tower to see
what could be possible in the future.
The Analemma Tower, being a suspended
tower connected to an asteroid, could be
constructed anywhere in the world due
to the fact that it can just orbit its way to
New York City. They propose to build it in
Dubai, as they are specialists in tall build-
ing construction at only 1/5th the cost of
New York City construction.
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The tower would hang from the asteroid
at around 50,000 kilometers above the
ground.
The building would regularly “orbit” only
a few parts of the world, from New York
City all the way to Peru in South America
in an “8” path.
Generally, entertainment and restaurants
would occupy the very tip closest to the
ground, followed by Offices and other
businesses, and then by gardens and
general agriculture, and then residential
buildings and other livelihood establish-
ments would occupy the very top.
Another benefit of the tower not hitting
the ground is that it can avoid damage
from floods, earthquakes, and tsunamis.
Another benefit of the tower not hitting
the ground is that it can avoid damage
from floods, earthquakes, and tsunamis.
Residents of the tower would be greeted
by spectacular views as well.
The tower can’t begin construction any
time soon, as current technology can’t
support it. “I would love to see it built,
however I don’t think I’ll be alive when it
happens,” says Rudakevych.
“As architects we’re trained to imagine
things that will exist in the future. For ex-
ample, when we design a house, we are
drawing and rendering something that
doesn’t exist until it’s built,” Rudakevych
adds. “We’re very interested in what the
future might look like or feel like.”