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Re: Singapore’s Floating Apartment Building

Richard — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 22:56:25 -0000

Actually a building of this sort (hanging on a central core) was put up in Vancouver BC Canada about 30+ years ago. It is only about 20 stories and one single building around a single core. I guess that would make the Twin Towers hanging building 2.0 and the one now planned for Singapore is v 3.0. The one in Vancouver was touted as being "more" earthquake proof than anything then erected in the city at that time.

Re: Singapore’s Floating Apartment Building

nomadicalloy — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 22:25:20 -0000

doesn't this remind you of a scifi movie?

Re: Singapore’s Floating Apartment Building

Anonymous — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 21:46:17 -0000

apparently it's not by OMA itself, but by one of their partners - Ole Scheeren - working outside the firm.

http://www.worldarchitectur...

Re: Singapore’s Floating Apartment Building

Andrew Liszewski — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 17:04:53 -0000

Agreed. But even though the Twin Towers looked like fairly 'ordinary' buildings they were the first to use a revolutionary new design. If I'm not mistaken it was the first to use a central concrete core which allowed the outer walls to be made of steel and glass and each floor to be all open space.

But people saw what happened to what they thought was a standard building design so I have to wonder if unique designs like this would give the average person even less confidence.

Re: Singapore’s Floating Apartment Building

CRConrad — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 16:54:45 -0000

But then again, the Twin Towers were brought down even though they *weren't* as exotically shaped as this project, so maybe people won't think the exotic shape has anything to do with that.