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Crazy Spike Covered Algae Powered Skyscraper Filters Polluted City Air

by , 06/28/10
filed under: Air quality, Architecture

Pavlína Doležalová, Jan Smékal, City Respiration Skyscraper, city respiration system, green skyscraper, green tower, green architecture, air cleaning building, green design, eco design, spiky skyscraper, sustainable design, air purification

The ‘City Respiration Skyscraper’ might look malicious with its spiky exterior, but its intentions are 100% benevolent. Designed by Czech architects Pavlína Doležalová and Jan Smékal, the spiraling tower is a 240 meter-high structure covered by air-cleaning algae. The designers envision that a network of these prickly scrapers could be strategically placed in the most polluted areas of a city to have its air cleaned in just a couple of weeks.

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2 Responses to “Crazy Spike Covered Algae Powered Skyscraper Filters Polluted City Air”

  1. [...] deserves an eco-skyscraper just as much as any other city and they couldn’t ask for much more than this spiraling eco [...]

  2. spasmody spasmody says:

    a world where you can be both nomadic and sedentary. Revolutionary

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