An ambitious architecture firm has unveiled plans to construct the tallest building ever, an upside-down skyscraper suspended from an asteroid 31,000 miles above the Earth.
Although many people have said construction of the sky-high building simply isn’t possible, architects have gone as far as to develop a full plan and concept video.
According to Daily Star, Analemma Tower, developed by Clouds Architecture Office, would house luxury flats, offices, gardens, and shops.
To achieve this, construction would use some of the most cutting-edge technology out there—even some which doesn't exist yet.
A concept video showed the different interiors and flats that would be available in the skyscraper, including cinemas, sky gardens, panoramic windows, hot tubs and more.
The building would have different sizes and shapes of windows to account for variations in atmospheric pressure and temperature. These include circular portholes and panoramic windows.
The inside of the building would be navigated using an extremely long elevator to move you between different floors.
To access the building, which would circumnavigate the Earth every day and stop off at the world's major cities including New York and Dubai, people will have to use special helicopters and exit by parachute.
The architects behind the idea said: "Analemma Tower is a proposal for the world's tallest building ever. Harnessing the power of planetary design thinking, it taps into the desire for extreme height, seclusion and constant mobility.
"If the recent boom in residential towers proves that sales price per square foot rises with floor elevation, then Analemma Tower will command record prices, justifying its high cost of construction."
According to the architects, the tower would use a system called the 'Universal Orbital Support System' to hang it from a giant asteroid.
This would require NASA to go and capture an asteroid from deep space and move it into Earth's orbit, which is an idea that seems unlikely for now.
Lots of people have pointed out the obvious obstacles to building a gigantic floating skyscraper and tying it to an asteroid, including the fact that we don't have any big asteroids nearby.
One architect analysed what would need to be done in order to make the skyscraper, which was first proposed in 2018, possible.
Writing for Arch Daily, Rory Stott said engineers would have to follow these steps:
Go fetch an asteroid and bring it into orbit around the Earth
Build a 16.7 mile-tall skyscraper in Dubai (as nowhere else would let you go that high)
Attach a 22,000 mile-long cable to the asteroid
Lift the building off the ground
Attach the building to the cable hanging from the asteroid
Move the building to New York and keep it in orbit
Attract people to live in the dangerous moving skyscraper
Build a tower that lets people hop on and off the moving skyscraper
