#18: The Sky Mile Tower Project (Architecture of Asia III)
In this final (and short) piece on the Architecture of Asia, we move from the past & the present into the future. The Sky Mile Tower is a concept for an ultra-skyscraper and accompanying complex situated in Tokyo Bay as a part of the New Tokyo 2045 project.
The name is quite literal: this tower is designed to reach 1,700 metres, just over a mile (1,609 metres). The current record-holder for tallest building is the Burj Khalifa, which tops out at 830 metres. The aim for this project is for 55,000 people to coupe this building in a mixed-use function.
The architectural firm Kohn Pedersen Fox and structural engineering firm Leslie E. Robertson Associates has every intention of building this megastructure, and it would surely sit as the crown jewel of the Tokyo skyline.
A key component of the Sky Mile Tower project is that it is built upon an archipelago of reclaimed land in Tokyo Bay; this would create a new district within the city confined to the Bay of Tokyo. No doubt there are questions of how such a development could endure the inevitable earthquakes and possible tsunamis, but I suppose if you’re an architect thinking on this scale, solving problems like that is part of the fun.
The project is hypothetical and might never happen - but the concept images show off an idea that is certainly exciting to consider.