http://www.dezeen.com/2008/01/02/the-worlds-biggest-ever-building-by-foster-partners/ architecture and design magazine Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:21:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://www.dezeen.com/2008/01/02/the-worlds-biggest-ever-building-by-foster-partners/comment-page-1/#comment-927240 O-pine Mon, 16 Jan 2012 14:47:50 +0000 http://www.dezeen.com/2008/01/02/the-worlds-biggest-ever-building-by-foster-partners/#comment-927240 But after all these comments and points of view....the Russians HAVE MONEY, and at the end of it all, this design exists ONLY because someone has the cash to pay for it, nothing else. But after all these comments and points of view….the Russians HAVE MONEY, and at the end of it all, this design exists ONLY because someone has the cash to pay for it, nothing else.

]]> http://www.dezeen.com/2008/01/02/the-worlds-biggest-ever-building-by-foster-partners/comment-page-1/#comment-77420 bULLa Wed, 23 Jan 2008 13:08:07 +0000 http://www.dezeen.com/2008/01/02/the-worlds-biggest-ever-building-by-foster-partners/#comment-77420 Generally I hate the 'worlds biggest.....' specially in architectural design terms. It is just a geometric monster rather than a work of architecture. It lends itself more to technology and geometry rather than charm and beauty. Generally I hate the ‘worlds biggest…..’ specially in architectural design terms. It is just a geometric monster rather than a work of architecture. It lends itself more to technology and geometry rather than charm and beauty.

]]> http://www.dezeen.com/2008/01/02/the-worlds-biggest-ever-building-by-foster-partners/comment-page-1/#comment-75588 Choesnah Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:25:08 +0000 http://www.dezeen.com/2008/01/02/the-worlds-biggest-ever-building-by-foster-partners/#comment-75588 I understand cities are characteristically evolving, so I wonder how this design accommodate this natural tendency; or else it is a very exclusive scheme designed for exclusive society within. I understand cities are characteristically evolving, so I wonder how this design accommodate this natural tendency; or else it is a very exclusive scheme designed for exclusive society within.

]]> http://www.dezeen.com/2008/01/02/the-worlds-biggest-ever-building-by-foster-partners/comment-page-1/#comment-74543 CPO Tue, 15 Jan 2008 11:20:50 +0000 http://www.dezeen.com/2008/01/02/the-worlds-biggest-ever-building-by-foster-partners/#comment-74543 1)High-interior volume structures like this are anything BUT sustainable because energy consumption for HVAC, plumbing, and miscellaneous machinery would be TREMENDOUS. The ecological impact footprint...impossible and selfish. 2)Then there's the issue of the effect of the monstrous amount of 'gray air' being pumped out into the compact region surrounding the monolith; the insulating parklands would stink of all the respired exhalations of 10,000 (vodka-soaked, chain-smoking?) bodies. 3) Interior sunlight, anybody? I have a feeling all of the apartments and good hotel rooms will be lining the glass skin of the building, but who wants to go to work, school, or a museum in a building that is effectively a bunker? I suppose that all depends on the layout but the vast cavern of interior space would create a dismal vertiginous netherworld for many occupants at its center. 1)High-interior volume structures like this are anything BUT sustainable because energy consumption for HVAC, plumbing, and miscellaneous machinery would be TREMENDOUS. The ecological impact footprint…impossible and selfish.
2)Then there’s the issue of the effect of the monstrous amount of ‘gray air’ being pumped out into the compact region surrounding the monolith; the insulating parklands would stink of all the respired exhalations of 10,000 (vodka-soaked, chain-smoking?) bodies.
3) Interior sunlight, anybody? I have a feeling all of the apartments and good hotel rooms will be lining the glass skin of the building, but who wants to go to work, school, or a museum in a building that is effectively a bunker? I suppose that all depends on the layout but the vast cavern of interior space would create a dismal vertiginous netherworld for many occupants at its center.

]]> http://www.dezeen.com/2008/01/02/the-worlds-biggest-ever-building-by-foster-partners/comment-page-1/#comment-71287 D Dhary Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:55:56 +0000 http://www.dezeen.com/2008/01/02/the-worlds-biggest-ever-building-by-foster-partners/#comment-71287 Its look nice to me, however I am more interested to know if there are any environmental benefits of this tower. Its look nice to me, however I am more interested to know if there are any environmental benefits of this tower.

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