City Of The Future: Gonna Need A Lot Of Windex
The giant glass pyramid that could house one million people
By Niall Firth - (Daily Mail)
With its sharp angles and its glass walls shimmering in the sunlight it looks like a piece of modern art.
But this innovative design is actually a blueprint for the city of the future - a giant glass pyramid that could house up to one million people.
The development, named the ‘Ziggurat’, will be self sufficient and carbon neutral with power being supplied by wind turbines.
No cars will be allowed inside the 2.3 square kilometre building, with residents being whisked around by a monorail network which operates both horizontally and vertically.
Security in the city will be provided by biometrics with residents relying on facial recognition to enter their homes.
Dubai based designer Timelinks has already patented the design and technology incorporated into the project.
They have also applied to the European Union for a grant to carry out more work on the project.
Ridas Matonis, managing director of Timelinks, said the city would work by ‘harnessing the power of nature.’ He said: “Ziggurat communities can be almost totally self-sufficient energy-wise.
“Apart from using steam power in the building we will also employ wind turbine technology to harness natural energy resources.
But it is not just about reducing the carbon footprint - the pyramid has many other benefits.
“Whole cities can be accommodated in complexes which take up less than ten per cent of the original land surface.
“Public and private landscaping will be used for leisure pursuits or irrigated as agricultural land.
“If these projects were realised today the world would see communities that are sustainable, environmentally friendly and in tune with their natural surroundings.”
Me: fphhehh!
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Sounds like one of the dumbest fucking ideas I’ve ever heard. Perhaps as a prison, it might be nice…but as a free human being, WTF?
September 6th, 2008 at 3:53 pmthey can keep this crazy shit. ill keep my house and 20 acres to myself and whoever i choose to allow in. i couldnt imagine living in some crazy confined space with 999,999 other people.
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City Of The Future: Gonna Need A Lot Of Windex
love the title
September 6th, 2008 at 3:54 pmThe biometrics security sounds alot like Minority report. If this idea were to ever come to realization it will be some scarey ass big brother type shit.
September 6th, 2008 at 4:08 pmOk, but where will all those people park their cars? They will be needing them to go other places, such as to work, or travel, etc. Only if you can put their jobs and everything else they need in this “thing” could be workable. And they still need cars to travel. Doesn’t seem realistic without a Big Brother government to make it all happen. Not for me, thanks.
September 6th, 2008 at 4:23 pmOr, maybe, we can just drill some frickin’ holes in the back of our necks and plug into the matrix.
I tend to believe we would have 1 million raving lunatics on our hands within a year, then it WOULD be a prison.
The first one these should be build and living units given away free to members of the DNC … they’re fuckin’ crazy already … the rest of us can watch the inevitiable last man standing, death match that would ensue within it’s walls. The builders can recoup there investment on the pay-per-view orders alone.
September 6th, 2008 at 4:29 pmWow! The worlds biggest BB Gun target ever!
September 6th, 2008 at 4:34 pmNo thank you, for these reasons:
September 6th, 2008 at 5:12 pm-How many thousand people in a tight little easily bombed area?
-How many lounatics in a little city?
-No privacy man. I hated living in apartments as a kid, i like houses, kthxbai.
-How quick will epidemics spread?
CPLViper Thanks for the laugh . I think you are right on.
September 6th, 2008 at 5:34 pmWTF!!!!
September 6th, 2008 at 5:49 pmIt’s “Society as a Machine”.
You know, the basis of socialism.
September 6th, 2008 at 6:16 pmthat looks stupid. looks like the perfect target for bin laden and that bunch… 1 million people in a glass pyramid… didnt someone mention free rooms for DNC members?
September 6th, 2008 at 6:26 pmI’m reminded of the difference between civil and mechanical engineers. Mechanical Engineers make ordinance, Civil Engineers make targets…that is one hell of a nice TIGHT easy to hit and destroy target.
September 6th, 2008 at 7:35 pmFirst thing I thought when I saw this shit:
Who the fuck came up with this stupid-assed idea? Screw you, keep your little glass house. Best not throw any rocks either.
Fuckin’ nitwits.
September 6th, 2008 at 7:48 pmisn’t it on Mars ????
September 7th, 2008 at 5:13 amDO. NOT. WANT.
I can’t stand any roommates, let alone 999,999. You know the walls will be paper thin. My pad might be a shoebox, but at least it’s pre-war with nice thick masonry walls.
This thing is a Nanny-staters wet dream. It’d require every aspect of daily life to be regimented for the slightest chance of it work (it won’t, though, human nature will see to that).
It’ll be the Co-op from Hell. The most obsessive-compulsive types will end up running it. I’ve heard people complain about Home Owner’s Associations. They got NOTHING on Co-op boards.
Bet Bloomberg invests in it. He’s trying to turn Manhattan into something like this already.
Fuck windmills. This ain’t Holland.
(No offense, Jeanet)
September 7th, 2008 at 7:40 amIf it is going to be powered by wind mills, we will have to crowd together in big ugly glass pyramids to make room for all of the whirling blades of death. As an engineer, I always look for the economic benefit…this idea has none; it is a social engineering attempt by socialists who want to control every aspect of your existance.
September 7th, 2008 at 8:57 amit could be used as a temporary shelter for refugees and displaced people as a result of natural disasters or wars. sure UN would love to invest in couple of those. oh wait, also could be used as a public housing project. the resident will be on a welfare anyways, they dont need jobs.
December 10th, 2008 at 10:00 pmin saudi arabia, every new car sold has a thing imbeded in a engine comp that sends data to authorities when the owner goes over speed limit, as well as other big-brother style laws.
looks like this potential city-state design idea is taken right from the Aeon Flux movie.