Whoa.....that's amazing stuff.
My only concern would be that in the later part of the article, it comes to light that the man leading the project has never built a sky scraper before!
Maybe that's why he's not shackled by any conventionalism, but still...I'd rather not try my luck in that building...
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/me...wer/index.html
But some have expressed skepticism. Fisher has never built a skyscraper before. He says he has teamed up with reputable architects and engineers in the United Kingdom and India.
Although he has received a development license for construction in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates, he has not disclosed the site of the building. The Moscow mayor's office said that it was looking into the project and that a decision had not been made.
Fisher has called prefabricated construction techniques the "future of architecture" and says they will radically transform 4,000-year-old "brick-on-brick" building methods.
By using preconstructed parts, Fisher said each story could be built in just seven days, resulting in environmentally cleaner building methods.
He said that just 600 people on an assembly site and 80 technicians on the construction site would be needed to build the tower, compared with about 2,000 workers for a traditional project of a comparable scale.
"It is unbelievable that real estate and construction, which is the leading sector of the world economy, is also the most primitive," Fisher is quoted as saying on Dynamic's Web site.
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