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Look Everyone, The City Of London Is Getting A Mega-City Block

Published Thu, 28 Aug 2014 08:00:12 -0500

Welcome to Endless City, a proposed skyscraper for London.

It is designed to have its own ecosystem, incorporating offices, shops, massive inside parks, entertainment and housing and has been described as a "vertical city".

Sound familiar? Me too.

It's a block, straight out of Judge Dredd's Mega-City One. Although the Endless City version.

The design from SURE Architecture won the SkyScrapers and SuperSkyScrapers Competition and is intended to save space in dense cities by building up.

And I must confess that the look of this thing…

…is certainly a little prettier than the film version.

But pretty much up there with how the comics developed them.

A spot in the City of London has already been earmarked, and it would be intended to be three hundred metres high, as high as the existing Shard skyscraper in London. Though this would clearly be a little bulkier.

As to how this block would work, apparently floors would be joined by interlinking ramps between streets, plazas and parks like a real city. Just going… up.

Alina Valcarce, associate director of SURE Architecture, says "

"The City in height is an alternative to the usual design of skyscrapers. Rather than superimposing one floor on top of another without real continuity; our project is thought as two endless ramps circumrotating continually and rising gradually with a low gradient from the ground floor to the sky. London's streets can now be developed both horizontally and vertically in a continuous way.

"There is no break anymore, neither between the streets level and the skyscraper, nor between the skyscraper floors themselves. The goal of the design is to conceive an open building that is effective as an inviting and yet powerful symbol in all directions while being permeated by generosity and openness."

"The different programs of the Tech City are settled continuously along the two ramps. They face each other, and are linked with bridges, interweave mutually in a dynamic vertical and horizontal movement to increase exchanges, communications and interactions. The differentiated but interconnected spatial sequences of public spaces and, entertainment spaces create a lively, discussion-rich setting for conversations, and societal inter-action and at the same time permit the creation of the vertical city."

Yeah. Shame how these things never work out isn't it? All they have to do is build two of them next to each other and…