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The Skyscraper That Grows Underground [Architecture]

The Skyscraper That Grows Underground [Architecture] Say hello to architect Matthew Fromboluti. If he lived in a comic book, he can be designing lairs for super-villains. Within the real world, he just wants to build this formidable subterranean skyscraper within the desert outside Bisbee, Arizona.

The Skyscraper That Grows Underground [Architecture]

His project, called Above below , is a building that drills 900 feet into the ground, inside the now-abandoned 300-acre wide Lavender Pit Mine.

The Skyscraper That Grows Underground [Architecture]

It has it all. Beautiful design, complete autonomy from the surface world, skylights and tubes channeling the natural light, farms, and climate control. Now he only needs a Utopian society with enough money to build it. And John Carpenter to film something really horrific and alien happening to all of them. [ evolo via Inhabitat ]

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