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TreeHugger reports:
Sumitomo Forestry, an industry giant in Japan, [is] pivoting to plyscrapers and proposing a 70-story, 350 meter (1148') tower for the Marunouchi district in Tokyo. It's called W350, the plan being that it will be finished in 2041, the 350th anniversary of the founding of the company.
[...] Using a hybrid 9:1 ratio of wood to steel, Sumitomo Forestry aims to replace concrete, which is one of the world's largest carbon footprint contributors. The skyscraper would be a 70-floor mixed-use building that would include a hotel, office space, commercial space, and residences. Wrap-around balconies at different intervals would be planted with lush wildlife. And greenery would extend throughout the entire complex, creating a vertical forest where humans and wildlife can flourish.
[...] It is a brace tube structure, "a structural system that forms a cylindrical shell (brace tube) with columns / beams and braces. By placing braces diagonally in a set of shafts assembled with columns and beams, it prevents the building from deforming against lateral forces such as earthquakes and wind."
The images are beautiful.
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(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 21 2018, @02:21AM
People who live in conditions such that they aren't sure if their children will live until the parents are dead tend to have -more- children to extend the odds.
In some cultures, lots of children are seen as a sign of wealth.
Japan has a universal healthcare system, so the first condition has largely gone away for them.
It seems that the current generation of Japanese people gives little credence to the second notion.
So, geometric expansion of their population, recognized as a stupid goal, has been abandoned.
Add in bots, unemployment numbers, and Capitalism (stagnant wages; globalism; exported jobs) to complete the picture.
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