As London's design community frets about the prospect of a luxetopia composed of priapic thickets of architecturally mediocre tall buildings, Laurie Chetwood of Chetwoods Architects and Bill Price of engineer WSP have proposed a pair of super-high towers rising to 1,000m in Wuhan, China. The occupied segments of the so-called Phoenix Towers structures would reach 500m - that is 80m higher than Chicago's Willis Tower and 200m beyond the glittering spike of London's Shard. If we add the 500m pinnacles, the towers would be more than three times taller than the Shard and 150m higher than the Burj Khalifa.
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