Moscow's city government has pre-approved construction of the world's largest building, "Crystal Island", which at 27 million square feet will essentially be a city within a city. The project is estimated to cost 4 billion dollars and should be finished by 2013.
As a frequent visitor to the Russian capital I can't imagine this being part of the cityscape, it just doesn't fit in. My feeling is that Crystal Island is a modern day version of the thankfully never built "Place of the Soviets" except now its a monument to capitalism... it even looks like the BP logo when viewed from the top :)
Here are some pictures of the project designed by Sir Norman Foster:
Wow, I have never even heard about this before! Amazing what people can do now.
Just another prove that anything is possible if you put your mind to it.
Thanks for sharing! Have a happy new year!
-Ed
Posted by: Edward Halim | December 30, 2007 at 09:41 PM