Dome to let Muscovites escape winter at home
Monday August 28, 2006
By Andrew Osborn
MOSCOW - An entire Moscow suburb is to be built within a space-age glass
cone conceived by architect Lord Norman Foster to shield its residents
from the Russian winter.
Mayor Yuri Luzhkov has approved the £1.6 billion ($4.7 billion) project,
and excited officials believe it could emulate the global status of the
Foster-designed Swiss Re "Gherkin" tower in the City of London.
The cone will be situated in southern Moscow on a spit of land near the
Moscow River and will be topped by an imposing 150m-high spire. Those
inside it will be able to see out through its transparent skin.
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A city that rotates? Only in Dubai
A little over two years ago, Faisal Ali Moosa had what he himself
described as a “crazy idea”. He wanted to create something that was
“absolutely unique”, “that people would go ‘wow’ for”, and “that would
become talk of the region”.
The owner of High Rise Real Estate travelled to Brazil, Canada and
Germany — countries where his idea already existed in one shape or
another — and his concept to create a city where every building would
rotate was born.
“I looked into rotating buildings, floating villas that would rotate and
fly to a height of 6m, water themed parks, a shopping mall that would
have rotating shops, cinemas that would rotate, restaurants and coffee
bars,” he recalls.
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