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How much to make the buildings float? One by one floats could be added to the buildings and cross connected to prevent individual building tipping. It will ta
by ecpottinger 8y ago
How much to make the buildings float? One by one floats could be added to the buildings and cross connected to prevent individual building tipping.
It will take time and money, but they are already talking about spending big bucks anyway.
- starbeast 8y agoIf sea level rise does ever seriously get out of hand, that is my prediction for parts of Tokyo and New York. I strongly suspect that some coastal cities would rather float than move.
- girvo 8y agoNew York 2140 is an interesting book examining what might happen to those coastal "drowned" cities, especially those buildings caught in the new intertidal zones. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29570143-new-york-2140 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29570143-new-york-2140
- starbeast 8y agoThat looks interesting, I might grab a copy when I have made a dent in my current pile. Some architects are already proposing to build floating apartments off the piers in Manhattan - https://www.dezeen.com/2018/02/09/pier-40-manhattan-new-york-dfa-conceptual-floating-high-rise-apartments/ https://www.dezeen.com/2018/02/09/pier-40-manhattan-new-york...
- girvo 8y agoOne kind of nice/kind of weird part of it, is that it's mostly interconnected slices-of-life without a huge overarching plot (though that's not entirely true, either) -- that has made it quite good as a pick-up-put-down book: handy, considering it's length!
- cbluth 8y agoThis is already happening in Amsterdam
- IshKebab 8y agoProbably an insane amount. You would have to reinforce the buildings internally so they could withstand the additional forces. Might be cheaper to build a new Venice.