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RIO DE JANEIRO | Solar City Tower | 90 FLOORS

More renderings here:
http://www.rafaa.ch/rafaa/rio_de_janeiro.html

http://www.wego.com/news/waterfall-t...-rio-olympics/

Quote:

Waterfall tower to power Rio Olympics

Posted by: Anita Posted date: August 02, 2012 In: From The Editors

http://www.wego.com/news/wp-content/...275&w=599&zc=1

Today comes news of a design from a Brazilian firm who plan to build an iconic 90 floor high skyscraper featuring a lavish urban waterfall that will solar power Rio de Janeiro’s 2016 Olympic Games. You’ll even be able to bungee from the top from a retractable platform.

The idea is that by day the building’s solar power plant produces energy for the city, and by night, excessive energy will be pumped as seawater into a tower with the water being released, producing energy that can light up the city.

Both a shop and café are located beneath the waterfall with an observation deck and urban balcony located at the top of the tower 105 metres above sea level, which provides visitors an opportunity to walk over a glass sky walk with the waterfall streaming below.

Would be amazing if it were actually built. But this seems ultra unlikely for some reason.

What about height restrictions? I don't think they allow it. I think they have reduced to 50 floors. They cannot have a super tallest building. Because they have a problem the height restrictions.

It's fake. The project actually existed but was only conceptual.
I found an article on a site in Portuguese (From Brazil) and explained that this was a project for a contest created by a company to promote and encourage the creativity of the participants. This project was not among the finalists of the participants.

Here the original link in Portuguese:
http://www.e-farsas.com/solar-city-t...e-janeiro.html

do not understood... how 105m high can be 90 storeys ? no way, and taken from drawings it seems not more than 90m high. Is it this missmatch ?

(90 x 3m floor to floor = 270 m ) sure far of reality, juvenil study really. is it 90 feet btw ?