http://www.livescience.com/blogs/2008/03/31/mile-high-skyscraper-planned/ LiveScience Blogs | Science, Technology, Health & Environmental News Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:54:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://www.livescience.com/blogs/2008/03/31/mile-high-skyscraper-planned/#comment-60696 rsteven2@gdeb.com Fri, 02 May 2008 15:56:59 +0000 http://www.livescience.com/blogs/2008/03/31/mile-high-skyscraper-planned/#comment-60696 While the mile high and Wright's building are certainly ambitions ideas, they pale in comparison to those of Buckminster Fuller. Putting a dome over Manhattan and banning fossil fuel cars was just the beginning of his incredible ideas. He planned to put entire cities in huge "tensegrity" balls that would float due to temperature of the air inside them. See "The Dymaxion World of BF" by Mark. May be hard to find. While the mile high and Wright’s building are certainly ambitions ideas, they pale in comparison to those of Buckminster Fuller. Putting a dome over Manhattan and banning fossil fuel cars was just the beginning of his incredible ideas. He planned to put entire cities in huge “tensegrity” balls that would float due to temperature of the air inside them. See “The Dymaxion World of BF” by Mark. May be hard to find.

]]> http://www.livescience.com/blogs/2008/03/31/mile-high-skyscraper-planned/#comment-56531 Ken Mon, 21 Apr 2008 02:25:34 +0000 http://www.livescience.com/blogs/2008/03/31/mile-high-skyscraper-planned/#comment-56531 Just goes to show you where our money goes when we buy a tank full of gas. Of course, Exxon and the like get their share also. But, come on!! Just goes to show you where our money goes when we buy a tank full of gas. Of course, Exxon and the like get their share also. But, come on!!

]]> http://www.livescience.com/blogs/2008/03/31/mile-high-skyscraper-planned/#comment-47527 dubephnx Tue, 01 Apr 2008 23:35:11 +0000 http://www.livescience.com/blogs/2008/03/31/mile-high-skyscraper-planned/#comment-47527 Frank Lloyd Wright actually submitted a mile-high building in the early 1950's in Florida. Got laughed out of Architecture at the time. Buildings didn't work because of the leverage limitations of anchor and braced structure design. Too hard to counter-balance the winds from that high in the atmosphere or something. Frank Lloyd Wright actually submitted a mile-high building in the early 1950’s in Florida. Got laughed out of Architecture at the time. Buildings didn’t work because of the leverage limitations of anchor and braced structure design. Too hard to counter-balance the winds from that high in the atmosphere or something.

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