Tallest building in the world...to come up in India!

[matrix_renz]

Did u know?

[Ice]

India needs to be spending its money in other places besides huge towers.

[peter femböck]

horrible.

[JWmHarmon]

In India according to the architectural history books at hand, there are several styles of religious architecture taking the form of large temples.

The historical references are obvious when one compares the drawing to the photo in the site linked here.

http://www.indiantemples.com/temparc.htm

The building of temples in India parallels the building of cathedrals in European countries. Just as different countries in Europe had different styles of cathedrals, so India's different regions had different styles.

Now, in 2005, we build monuments to not only for religious purposes, but also to the secular "gods" of commerce (Sears Tower, TransAmerica pyramid, World Trade Center, Crystal Cathedral or is this one religious?).

We could get into a philosophical discussion of the propriety of spending so much money, time, and effort on buildings of such magnitude when we look around and see war, polically motivated starvation, floods, tsunamis, earthquakes, hurricanes, typhoons, tornados, and fires.

When we do so we have to recognize that building provides employment for the building trades. Without the drive to create buildings, people lose jobs, income, and the ability to provide food, clothing, medical care, and so on. Perhaps we should be asking how much is appropriate for the various needs of humanity and what is the proper balance between the decidedly human tendency to build ever greater monuments to our human vanity and the needs of the most disadvantages citizens of each and every country in the world.

[Donald]

Lets see...the tower is 224 floors which equals 2222 ft in height. That means the base of the tower as depicted in your linked view, is approximately half the size of the building height or 1111 ft square. I see about one forth the number of floors as you stated, in looking at the height to base ratio and thinking to myself, where is the rest of the tower?... its an amazing feat and to have any meaningful function inside with a floorplate of 1,234,321 sq feet of floor area on the ground floor alone which is absolutely absurd

Given that, the total size of the built tower would be an incredible 1.2m x 224 / 2 or on average = 134million sf....wow!....maybe you have been smoking that waterpipe too long???

[jlxarchitect]

This proposal won't be built considering India's economic and religious situation.

What is the highest building India ever built by far? It may be just 30-50 story. Moreover, the design image make me think it is a religious landmark rather than an regular multi-plex highrise building. With the complicated religious issue in India today, is it safe to put hundreds and thousands of people in one building? Donald's analysis might be too abstract to you. But if I tell you Sears Tower is around 110 story, and this India tower is twice of the height than Sears Tower. You will get the picture.

[Donald]

This building won't be built ever..... no where, no way and no how

[veishally]

well seems to be a good project, but found no validity of it on the maharishi website,
google search resulted in 6 matches on not so valid websites,
how come its not in the news.

could you give a better/valid link
like architecture news, or yahoo news??

[nayan]

everything seem impossible at first but it can be built. it will defenitely take more time. at least not by 2008.

[Martin]

Give me a break, this is just a vision, i mean there is a vision for a 4 km tower to be built in tokyo. http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=103142 however that doesn't mean it will ever be built. Anyways the highest building that is currently under construction in Dubai, called the "Burj Dubai" (730m tall) is taller then this india tower vision. Anyways i agree that India should find better ways to spend money than some ludicrous projects.

[Donald]

"Vision" = a dream or an apparation

And thats exactly what it is...here is another "Dream "...one that was to have brought a mile high skyscraper to the USA...over 50 years ago ...imagine or dream if you will, a building designed to hold 130,000 inhabitants, comfortably... intended to have over 18 million square feet, on-site parking for 15,000 cars and landing pads for 150 helicopters! All that and more from a most famous architect who's only skyscraper constructed captured the landscape in Oklahoma

http://www.delmars.com/wright/flw7a.htm

As for the Burj Dubai Tower, its real, its designed and under construction. Proportions are correct for the height, funds are in place and absolutely no dream world there :
http://www.urbanplanet.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=4590