 Just when we thought we've pushed the known limits to architecture, here comes one that is bound to be recorded in history if ever it will be built that is.
After seeing this on tv I definitely had to read more about it and do a quick write up. We know that with current construction limitations we can only push buildings to a certain allowable height before calling it physically impossible and quit. Now, a team of architects from Mexico is proposing a 65 story inverted pyramid made of glass and steel to be placed in Zocalo (Mexico's historic plaza). This "Earthscraper" which they have designed is a 300 meter deep office and living space which we won't definitely see anywhere on Mexico's skyline. To think that it is quite funny for Mexico to have laws limiting buildings to only eight stories thus greatly congesting the city with multiple buildings that are no taller than our average buildings here in the Philippines is quite laughable but at an estimated cost of 0 million to build it does have its own challenges such as lighting, ventilation not to mention powering a behemoth underground. To simply put it, if the Americans, Europeans, and Japanese have not done it then why should the Mexicans do it right? Cheaper and better to just change laws than attempt the impossible. Then again with man's insatiable thirst to reach his dreams who knows it may actually be built and work. Imagine the first 10 stories would hold a museum dating back to the Aztecs (people who obviously built pyramids upright not inverted) and the next 10 floors are for retail and housing with the last 35 floors for commercial office space (work yourself to death would now be justified being underground). We could soon be living in huge underground complexes or cities similar to movies such as City of Ember or the massive hives in Resident Evil that dwarf the proposed 65 story inverted building in Mexico. The things we humans do just to make things simpler and more comfortable to the extent of creating something extraordinarily crazy, but if people built wonders of construction in the past then maybe we should continue the loony tradition.
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