One mile high. That’s the mark that has been promised, threatened, teased, for years. Someday, architects and engineers will successfully create a mile high tower, and it will present one hell of a view. The latest concept for a mile high observatory, Sky Park, comes from a collaboration between Carlo Ratti, Schlaich Bergermann Und Partner, and Atmos Studio. The enormous tower would be topped by a huge observation deck, with a style somewhat reminiscent of Cloud City in Star Wars. To get a sense of the tower’s size, the architect describes it this way:
‘Imagine you take New York’s Central Park, turn it vertical, roll it and twirl it,’
Via DesignBoom, this concept will be officially announced in March, with no plans for construction….yet.
A visitor exploring the edge of the mile-high observatory
A view of the proposed mile-high observatory at night
[…] often derided as monuments to money, ego or materialism, skyscrapers can also be seen as design and engineering prowess at their finest. Almost as temples to what is possible with the human spirit. For years, the Burj […]