Moscow's Crystal Island - Construction & Details
Guys, this one is awesome!!! Not from Philippines though, but it is worth seeing... 😀
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Moscowâs rapidly growing skyline will soon feature an eye-popping new addition: Crystal Island, which will be the worldâs biggest building when completed. Sir Norman Fosterâs mountainous 27 million square feet spiraling âcity within a buildingâ will cost $4 billion and it is scheduled to be built within next 5 years.
The Crystal Island will be Lord Fosterâs second large scale project in the Russian capital, and his third new building design that resembles a volcano (weâre talking about his two mountainous buildings in Astana, Kazakstan). Although many people are calling this design the âChristmas Treeâ of Moscow â we canât help but be reminded of the utopian and also rather volcanic X-Seed 4000 design for Tokyo. Unlike that pipe-dream project, however, Foster has a track record of getting buildings built, so the likelihood is high that we will see this striking structure towering over the Kremlin within 5 years time.
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