[PW] Tallest and most impossible building question

[Harry G. Osoff]

Well sort of related

http://thechicagospire.com

maybe not the tallest but certainly the most breathtaking

Harry Osoff
Information Architect


On Nov 3, 2007, at 12:01 PM, John Ptak wrote:

> Hello.
> I'm wondering if anyone knows the height of the tallest building  
> projected to be built not including science fiction.   In my Naive  
> Sureal Collection of pamphlets there is an odd and demented  
> pamphlet by a woman who  founded a world society organization  in  
> 1936 ("World Wide Army") wherein she proposes a 300,000-foot tall  
> tower (with a bell on the top (!!)) as part of a series of ideal  
> communitiies.  I've never heard of anyone outside the scifi world  
> proposing such a thing as this--has anyone else heard of anything  
> this impossible?  (I don't count her effort as sciience ficiton,  
> though it is probably science fRiction.)
> She also propose a hole to be dug that is 3,000,.000 feet deep and  
> 3,000 feet across--she never does get to say why this hole was to  
> be dug.
>
> The author does propose that the base of teh building "be big enough".
>
> Thanks,
>
> John Ptak
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