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TOKYO SKY CITY, JAPAN

Also known as :
Sky City 1000
LOCATION ?
TOKYO, JAPAN
a megatall  skyscraper in the 
Tokyo metropolitan area,
announced in 1989 during the
height of the 
Japanese asset price bubble.
ARCHITECTS?
Takenaka Corporation
TYPE?
• Hotel,
• Office,
• Residential
BUILDING
HEIGHT & NO.
OF STOREYS ?
196 STOREYS
HIGH
1,000 m (3,280 ft)
PLAN ?
The plan consists of a
building 400 m (1,312 ft)
wide at the base, and a
total floor area of 8 km2.
MATERIALS USED ?
STEEL
GLASS
CONCRETE
WHY THIS TOWER
IS SO FAMOUS ?
It is a hypothetical
architectural project.
 If completed, the Sky City
1000 would be the tallest
man-made structure in the
world, edging out the Burj
Khalifa in Dubai. It would
share this record with 
Kingdom Tower.
The design, proposed in
1989 by Takenaka
Corporation.
 It comprises 14 concave dish-
shaped "Space Plateaus"
stacked one upon the other.
The interior of the plateaus would
contain green space, and on the edges,
on the sides of the building, would be
the apartments. Also included in the
building would be offices, commercial
facilities, schools, 
theatres, and other modern amenities.
Since its announcement, it has gained a lot of
attention from the world's architectural
 establishment,
and was featured on Discovery Channel's 
Extreme Engineering in 2003.
Land prices in Japan were the highest in the
world at the time, and Kisho Kurokawa, one of
Japan's most famous architects, has said that
staggeringly ambitious buildings employing
highly sophisticated engineering are still
cheap, because companies pay 90% of the cost
for the land and only 10% for the building
• Tokyo's only fire helicopter has even been
used in simulation tests to see what the
danger would be if a fire were to break out
in the building.

• Triple-decker high speed elevators

 which would be used in the building are also
being designed in labs outside Tokyo.
• Although this project has gained more
serious attention than many of its
alternatives, it can be considered similar to
projects as density, mixed use concepts
such as  Le Corbusier's Ville Radieuse.
SKY TOWER

IN

INDIA
India Tower (previously known as the Park Hyatt
Tower; also known as the Dynamix Balwas
Tower or DB Tower)
LOCATION ?
Charni Road, Mumbai, INDIA
HEIGHT ?
It is a 126 storey, 718-metre (2,356 ft) 
megatall skyscraper that began construction in
the city of Mumbai, India, in 2010. Construction
work was put on hold in 2011, initially planned
as 301m under the name Park Hyatt, know
known as India tower or DB Tower.
ARCHITECT ?
Foster and Partners
TYPE ?
Hotel, Residential,
Retail
• The Dynamix Balwas realtor group first proposed the
project, under the name of Park Hyatt Tower, in 2008.
• The Dynamix Balwas proposal would have been an 85-
storey tower with a height of 301.1 metres (988 ft).
• The project was subsequently dropped, before being
revived and amended in 2010. In January 2010, the 
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation
•  authorised the tower's construction on a site located at 
Charni Road in Girgaon, southern Mumbai, just north
of Mumbai's historical CBD (Central Business
District).
World One is presently the tallest skyscraper 117
floors- 442m,
a supertall residential skyscraper under construction
in Mumbai, India. It is located in Upper
Worli within Mumbai on the 7.1-hectare (17.5-acre)
defunct Shrinivas Mill site. The project will
cost ₹20 billion and is expected to be completed in
2016, becoming the world’s tallest residential
tower. World One's architect is Pei Cobb Freed &
Partners and the structural engineer is Leslie E.
Robertson Associates.
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