Firm unveils plan for ‘skyscraper’ which hangs from an orbiting asteroid
A New York design firm has created a – rather ambitious – plan for a building which could turn the way we live upside down.
Instead of a skyscraper, it’s a ‘groundscraper’ – which hangs upside down from an orbiting asteroid.
New York design firm Clouds Architecture Office came up with the idea – which already has a name, Analemma.
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IT would be the tallest building ever made (naturally), and would loop round the Earth every day in a figure eight.
The top floors would get 40 minutes extra daylight every day, the creators note.
The top of the skyscraper would have massive solar panels to harvest sunlight – of course! – and the people inside would drink clouds.
The designers say, ‘By placing a large asteroid into orbit over earth, a high strength cable can be lowered towards the surface of earth from which a super tall tower can be suspended.
‘Since this new tower typology is suspended in the air, it can be constructed anywhere in the world and transported to its final location.”
