Able to house a whopping nine million people, The Line is Saudi Arabia’s crown prince Mohammed bin Salman’s shot at a radical change in his country’s urban planning. The project is a fascinating response to the population explosion in urban areas, and ZN Era aren’t the only studios solving the problem of “how to build densely while retaining liveability.”īack in July, US-based Morphosis was rumoured to be behind the design for a superstructure that’s – wait for it – 170km long, 500m tall and 200m wide. Great, but where’s the space cruiser docking bay? No need… Yet! For right now, the proposal includes a fleet of pods that will glide along the entire outer ring of Downtown Circle for the convenience of frustrated astronauts. “As an integral part of the urban ecosystem, the design also stores carbon and filters pollutants from the air, in addition to providing sanctuaries for wild plants and food production.” The ZN Era grand design is truly visionary: “In order to give back to the natural environment, the plan includes proposed areas for rainwater harvesting and solar power,” the studio told dezeen. The 550-metre-tall ‘SkyRing’ (you heard it here first, because we just made it up) would be mixed use, comprising offices, houses, apartments and research centres.Ī green layer would be sandwiched between the two rings, which the studio refers to as the building’s ‘green lung’. Those forward thinkers at ZN Era have presented their design for a two-ringed skyscraper called Downtown Circle, which would wrap around Dubai’s Burj Khalifa as “a continuous metropolis”. If your pulse starts racing when someone mentions Birmingham brutalism ( top 10 here, if you’re interested, courtesy of dezeen ), then we’d like to drastically up your thrill levels by introducing you to some space-age architecture that’s got everyone talking. 6 September 2022 Cities in the sky – the dawn of space-age living
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