"I would say that anybody living over the fifth floor ought generally to be referring to the airspace authorities.
Tower within a Tower consists of apartment buildings where individual units are built vertically – with rooms stacked on top of each other – instead of the usual horizontal “pancake stack” apartments that hinder neighbourly interaction.What do you do when you're the city of Portland and millions of people are supposed to move into your city in the coming decades and you have an urban growth boundary? Build up, right? To a certain extent yes, but not above the fifth floor, says world-renown architect Jan Gehl. Hong Kong-born architect Lap-chi Kwong, with his American partner Alison Von Glinow, believe that their Tower within a Tower design may have hit upon a solution to help combat the lack of community and social interaction that high-rise living often breeds, by helping people meet their neighbours. It will have one of the longest and highest skybridges in the world.” “Already in Chongqing, China, a building complex, Raffles City, that is the size of a small city is almost finished. “I definitely think some people will live in such interconnected complexes, especially in high-density cities,” says Safarik.
Maybe these interconnected mega-towers – or something like them – are not so far-fetched. Photograph: Kwong Von Glinow Design Office This render shows a studio, one bedroom apartment and a family apartment. In Kwong Von Glinow’s Towers within a Tower design apartment units are stacked one on top of another vertically. “Within this footprint are all the self-sustaining features of infrastructure, buildings, facilities, and services necessary for improving the living, working, cultural, entertainment, sports, recreation, and leisure qualities of life for residents.” “High capacity, high efficiency ultra-tall buildings occupying a relatively small, car-free, pedestrian-friendly parcel of land,” they say. Kenneth King and Kellogg Wong, the architects behind Vertical City, claim it as a solution for sustainable living. They foresee a future where we live in interconnected mega-towers that each contain all the components of a city in one building so that, in theory, you never have to leave if you don’t want to. Some architects and urban designers – in particular a group called Vertical City – want to take vertical living to new heights. Of course it’s great to have commanding views, but it’s also essential to have equalising interactions.” “But even if we have buildings that are unfathomably tall by today’s standards, the key will be breaking them down into scales that allow humans to relate to each other. Is there a height we shouldn’t go beyond? “From a practical standpoint, today’s structural engineering can facilitate a 2,000m building, though it would be enormously expensive to construct,” says Daniel Safarik of CTBUH. This was the third consecutive year that Shenzhen completed the world’s largest number of 200m-plus buildings, representing nearly 10% of the global total.
Last year it managed 14, ahead of Dubai’s 10. Meanwhile, the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen is the world leader in completing new skyscrapers. Dubai’s Burj Khalifa is currently the world’s tallest building at 828m.
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