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The precursor project: (in Russian) https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B0%D1%88%D0%BD%D1%8F_%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0_%E2%80%94_%D0%
by baybal2 6y ago
The precursor project: (in Russian) https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B0%D1%88%D0%BD%D1%8F_%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0_%E2%80%94_%D0%A2%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%83%D1%88%D0%B0_4000 https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B0%D1%88%D0%BD%D1%8F...
The funny story about it is that Japanese were unpleasantly shocked with architectural, and engineering plan "sounding scarily too realistic," and asked to "dumb it down a bit," for what the architect refused, and thus it went to Martin Pascoe.
I guess they were afraid of Tokyo actually asking them to go forward with it.