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What Will Japan’s 22,370-Mile-High Space Elevator Look Like?
February 23, 2012
Yesterday we learned that the Japanese have a proverbial ace up their sleeve in the planet-wide race for the tallest megastructure: plans for a 22,370-mile high space elevator made of a material 20 times stronger than steel, to be complete by 2050. What, pray tell, might this look like? These far-out renderings from Obayashi Corp. can give you an idea. Is that a capsule hotel up there?
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Zaha Hadid wasn't invited to the Opening Ceremony for the opening of her firm's Aquatics Center. -
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Construction is finally compete on the already iconic tower. -
The 2012 Monumenta installation in Paris's Grand Palais is a disorienting blast of color.
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