![]() ![]() In the real world, though, if a skyscraper of this size were to be built, there would be a whole team of people who know exactly what would happen if things went wrong-because architects, engineers, and the whole army of consultants and experts that they work with do not undertake kilometer-tall buildings without putting considerable thought into them. That’s a great setup for a movie, but it betrays a certain Black Mirror-like fear of the future-a sense that even though we can create things that might once have been considered science fiction, we may not have thought things all the way through. ![]() Noone really knows what would happen if things go wrong.” To quote the central character Will Sawyer’s words in the trailer: “Not only have you brought them all indoors, but you’ve trapped them 240 floors in the air. Because, while plenty of movies in the past, from Die Hard to Entrapment, have placed skyscrapers at the center of the action, few have made the skyscraper an unambiguous source of danger as this movie does. But there’s also an issue that architects may want to take more seriously. To top it all off, it seems that while the base of the building does make contact with the southern tip of the Kowloon Peninsula (so long to the Hong Kong Cultural Centre, it seems) the main part of the structure is built over what is currently Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbour-not the ideal foundation for what might already have been humanity’s greatest feat of structural engineering.Īlongside the design of the building, there are plenty of other oddities that you might expect from this genre of film (yo Hollywood, for the last time, skyscraper windows don’t shatter like that). Such gaps in the structure follow Hong Kong’s unique design customs, suggesting that the designers did appreciate the context they were building in, even if they are also adding to their structural engineer’s misery. Also shown on that elevation are not one, but two feng-shui-friendly holes in the building. That’s not to say that no thought has gone into the design at all, though. Save this picture! via Screenshot from video ![]()
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