Mar 26 2008London Tower To House 100,000 People

I love when architects design buildings after mundane, unrelated things. For instance: sand dunes, staplers, and cardboard paper towel tubes shot up by a bb gun and painted white.

wow. out of place much? And you're right, it is incredibly phallic. You definitiely don't get the full effect until you see the tower in the second photo. And an ice skating rink and theater? Why not leave the building every now and again? It should remain "simply a novel idea."

The street level picture looked pretty cool and I could get on board with that. The full height...I'm scared.

And I though Jack the floating island, child molester guy designed it....How silly of me.

That has to be going into space.

sometimes i wish i lived in one of those...

then the person here thats keeping me captive hits me with a black jack and i fall asleep.

:(

the terrorists are going to have a field day with this they might as well just put a gigantic bulls-eye on the top of it.

As someone who's had to put up with London traffic before, this will create the worst traffic situation in the world.

Don't build it until we've got flying cars, you idiots! Haven't you seen the Jetsons?

I can't wait until that thing goes up and SARS wipes out 80% of its population in a week.

Hi, I'm Gary, I live in the giant toilet paper roll behind Buckingham Palace.

Buy you a drink???

You'll probably see our penthouse from there ;-)

A million people in one building? This is going to be target number one for a well placed bomb in london for sure. What an awful idea. How in god's name would they work security into this bitch? What about elevators? How long would it take to get to the top floor and what if there was a fire? It's not like you'd have a hope in hell of getting out if you were on the top floor. I do not understand what some people are thinking when they design shit like this.

two thumbs up for flying cars, two thumbs and a third leg up for complimentary jet-packs fueled by REALLY BAD IDEAS!!

the word you are looking for is "Phallical"

I'd hate to just miss the elevator on my way out in the morning. now, if they made every tenth floor into office space, and you could work in the build as well... it'd still be a shitty idea

I realize this is just an idea/concept, but would something like this be even remotely possible? It seems like would take 100 years to build.

Yeah definitely not a good idea until they've come up with a brilliant way to get out of even the top floor quickly (hoover cars? jetpacks? the Force?). This would work in some place out in the Stars...even if it is a place torn by Wars.

Hello, like, all those whole around it, just one word: ANTITERRORIST attacks!

What I dont understand is....

where are they gonna find the mexicans to build this thing?
They'll probably have to import them by the 100 thou!

Does nobody else ever think of how scary it would be to have to fricken BUILD one of these massive structures? I'm afriad of heights!

oh man! once that thing goes up i can finally put this earthquake machine into action!

Yeah, like all have said: bad idea. At least the Japanese building is a little more realistic (a little).

bitch would need one hell of a parking lot to go with it.

Is it me, or is that thing leaning a bit in the second photo?

reminds me of Sim City 3000 when does it launch?

Why is it that people who comment on these sites are so stupid?

It looks like Kerplunk.

It's the perfect anti-terror design. Bad guys hijack a plane, plan to fly it into the building and... ZIP!..... fly right out the other side. Neener, neener.... MISSED ME!

Rama is real.

17 and 27, lol.

Yeah, and when there is a fire, everyone is f***ed.

Yeah London needs to invest more money in their anti bombing situation, before they build any large towers.

I'm in if the spiral is a ramp that I can ride a bike down (or ski or something)

And what happens when these million people all try to go to work at 8am? By the time they get there, it will be time to go home.

When they say "one MILLION people," does Mike Myers laugh menacingly?

Holy Christ! It looks like a kitty scratch post! Except chock-full of poorly-dentistried eelsuckers (a new epithet I'm coining... I like it!)

"kids put on ur oxygen masks, i wanna open the window"

wow it is so beautiful...hmmm..good thing it wont be built. Mega housing projects suck - why? - projects = shit - putting alot of people into a small confinded area = social and political problems. thats why when you have projects - shit happens ..and in huge numbers.

why dont you put a sign up...London full - f*** off. im not from europe, i live in asia. and really i dont understand why u dont do that. if some small place..needs peopel..its okay...but when u have 18,000,000 people in shanghai - really we dont need more people. too many problems.

Holy sh-t it is science fiction in action. Please stop having more babies. Yikes scary.

Looks crooked

doesn't london have height restrictions?

Couldn't it be less tall (and thus more likely to be developed) while still housing a million people if it didn't have all the holes in it like a giant cylinder of swiss cheese and if the center weren't hollow?

It looks so tall in contrast to the London street buildings. But I'd say the twin towers were at least 3/4 as tall, and the tallest building in the world (someone help me here?) may be just as tall?

One question, can the building withstand the gale wind in Britain?

I really hope the silly council people of London would lift the height restriction in London. The city is crying out for some innovative, spectacular high rise in its skyline.

what if they cut it up into smaller pieces? or put three quarters of it underground? or tried to pass it off as the worlds largest swiss cheese stick?

LOL we couldn't build a Mechano scale model of it here in London much before 2250 - the bureaucracy here is terrible! Even then we'd be 15 trillion over budget & 2 centuries behind ;)

a singe floor of 600; the village is 20 floors and houses 6,000. There are also three super-districts that house 33,000 people each.

600+120.000+99.000=219.600?

ans no, the twin towers were not 3/4 of 5000 ft not by far

It's actually meant to house about 100,000 people, not a million.

Here's a quote from the original website.

"The tower is broken up into a hierarchy of municipal areas. The smallest; the neighbourhood occupies a single floor - approximately 600 people, the next; the village covers 20 floors and approximately 6000 people. The tower is finally divided into three super-districts; upper, mid and lower of 33,000 people each"

That brings the grand total to 115,600. That's nowehere near a million.

See citation here
http://www.popularchitecture.com/supertower/

Oh my, that's one hideous building. It looks so awkward and out of place in contrast to the rest of London.

If you click the link, it says 1,000,000 people, not just 100,000

even in the link says one million, i think the geekologie guy forgot a zero... and a comma...

oops, edit, 100,000 is correct, sorry

@17 - Knucklehead, "anti-terrorist attacks" are what the GOOD GUYS do to prevent the BAD GUYS from doing "terrorist attacks."

Dumb f***.

It could be 9 / 11 times 10,278,683... What is that??

Nobody knowssssssssssss......

@19, English Mexicans are called The Polish.

The building looks crap and if it ever goes up, which it won't, it won't be nearly big enough to house all the illegal immigrants.

Imagine how windy it would be in the upper 'parks'. It would probably blow you off the building.

do people even THINK before coming up with this? like this would actually be built its freaking a million times bigger than anything in London. Its also ugly. And parks at the top WOULD be too windy. What an idiot. The street level view was cool though.

If that thin line swirling around the outside of the tower was a slide, it would all be worth it no matter how much the cost

If that thing goes up Im moving out of london. Full stop.
Its disgusting, i dont get why people feel the need to build horrible tall buildings. I hope london doesnt lift the height restriction,
If you cant find a normal f***ing house dont move to my city.

mmmm swiss cheese

About time they started building arcologies.

Btw Russell (commented somewhere near the top). It's phallic. He was right before. So before being such a pedant I urge you to actually look up appropriate grammatical terms.

Crappy design. Doesn't make sense. And we all know it will never work. Even in a million years.