The Bionic Tower is a proposed vertical city, an extremely large building designed for human habitation designed by Spanish

Spain

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 architects Eloy Celaya, Mª Rosa Cervera, and Javier Gómez. It would have a main tower 1228 metres (4,029 ft) high, with 300 stories housing approximately 100,000 people.

While in office, then-Shanghai

Shanghai

Shanghai is the largest city by population in China and the largest city proper in the world. It is one of the four province-level municipalities in the People's Republic of China, with a total population of over 23 million as of 2010...

 mayor Xu Kuangdi

Xu Kuangdi

Xu Kuangdi KmstkNO is a Chinese politician of the ruling Communist Party. He was mayor of Shanghai from 1995 to 2001. He supervised the transformation of Shanghai during his administration into a center for international investment and trade that helped lead the intensive development of China's...

 expressed an interest in the concept for his city. Hong Kong

Hong Kong

Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour...

 also reportedly expressed interest in the project.

Specifications

• Authorship: Spanish architects: Eloy Celaya, Mª Rosa Cervera, Javier Gómez.
• Urban Model: Vertical City.
• Inhabitants: 100,000.
• Height: 1228 m (4,029 ft).
• Stories: 300.
• Communication: 368 elevators (15 m/s, with vertical and horizontal movement).
• Footprint: 133 m (436 ft) x 110 m (361 ft) at base, expanding to 166 m (545 ft) x 133 m (436 ft) max.
• Area: 2000000 m² (21,527,820.8 sq ft).
• Artificial Base Island: 1 km (0.621372736649807 mi) diameter.
• Structure: Micro-structured High Strength Concrete (2tones / cm^3 or 1372 MPa).
• Maximum sway: 2.45 m (8 ft) lateral displacement.
• Tech. system: Bionic Vertical Tech. Space.
• Cost: USD $16 billion+.
• location : Asia, Hong Kong
  Hong Kong
  Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour...
  
  

See also

• List of tallest buildings in Hong Kong
• List of tallest buildings in Shanghai
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• Arcology
  Arcology
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• X-Seed 4000
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