Sky City 1000

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Sky City 1000 was a proposed skyscraper for the Tokyo metropolitan area. It was announced in 1989 at the height of the Japanese asset price bubble. The proposal consisted of a building 1,000 m (3,281 ft) tall and 400 m (1,312 ft) wide at the base, with a total floor area of 8 km2 (3.1 sq mi). The design, proposed in 1989 by the Takenaka Corporation, would have housed between 35,000 and 36,000 full-time residents as well as 100,000 workers. It consisted of 14 dish-shaped "Space Plateaus" stacked one upon the other. The interior of the plateaus would have contained green space, and the edges of the building would have contained apartments. The building would also have housed offices, commercial facilities, schools, theatres, and other modern amenities. Land prices in Japan were the highest in the world at the time, but Kisho Kurokawa, one of Japan's most famous architects, said that staggeringly ambitious buildings employing highly sophisticated engineering were still cheap, because companies...

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