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CONE SHAPED
round structure would alleviate the wind
resistance found in a traditional rectangular
building. And varying its width from top to bottom
would help to dissipate vibration.
Millennium Tower
Imagine a skyscraper almost twice the size of the Empire State Building. This collosus would be a city within a city, hosting its own hospitals, schools, and a range of entertainment and retail options large enough to attract and keep the traffic necessary for the financial success of such an endeavor.It's creators aren't saying you should spend your whole life inside, but you could.
Stats:
Height: 2,750 feet, 170 stories
Resident Population: 52,000
Elevator Traffic: 100,000 people per day
Location: Hong Kong Harbor
Closest Living Relative: Petronas Towers, Kuala Lumpur (1,483 feet, 88 stories)
Construction Duration: Approximately 10 years
Cost: $13.5 billion
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Gibraltar Bridge
A bridge spanning 9 miles over the Straits of Gibraltar at the entryway to the Mediterranean would be the longest and tallest ever built. It would connect cultures of Christianity and Islam and potentially increase ties between the economies of Europe and Africa.
Stats:
Location: Strait of Gibraltar. Links Spain and Morocco.
Length: 9 miles, Two spans of 4 1/2 miles each
Height: Each tower is 3,000 feet tall. Twice as high as the world's tallest skyscraper.
Width: 5 traffic lanes, 2 breakdown lanes in each direction
Road Deck Material: Fiberglass
Length of Wire Cables: 1,000,000 miles (Enough to circle the Earth almost 30 times)
Closest living relative: Storevilt Bridge, Denmark (246 feet tall, spans 1 mile)
Cost: $20 billion
Dangers: Wind speeds of 80 mph at tops of towers, ship collision, ocean currents, traffic, Sahara Desert dust storms
Extracted from "Engineering the Impossible" <www.discovery.com>
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