Sunday 16 March 2008

Mile-High Madness

Popular Architecture proposes that the answer to Britain's housing problems is a block of flats a mile high. According to the authors,
The tower allows a massive intensification of the city without the need for dramatic alteration of London's existing fabric.
That's no "dramatic alteration" as in, "Driving a stake through the man's heart was not a dramatic alteration of his existing fabric."

3 comments:

jayessell said...

Isn't that from the inside of the mothership from the motion picture "Independance Day"?

Maybe it will look better once it's occuppied and screwed into the earth's outer mantle.

(Post the Monty Python skit in which the apartment building stands as long as the occupants believe in it.)

Wunderbear said...

It's like a giant tube made out of swiss cheese!

It would be awesome, as long as it wasn't in London (Maybe somewhere in Switzerland).

The only mile-high tower I would allow to be built in London (If I were Supreme Benevolent Dictator) would be one of these.

Anonymous said...

That's a big ol' Habitrail! I'd hate to see the hamsters.

Unless they peek over the buildings and say "Dinsdale!"

I know, I know, Spiny Norman wasn't a hamster