It’s big enough to swallow cities, deep enough to hide skyscrapers and inside lies an ancient, thriving ‘lost world’ cut off from everything above

It’s big enough to swallow cities, deep enough to hide skyscrapers and inside lies an ancient, thriving ‘lost world’ cut off from everything above

Looking down on it from above, the world’s deepest sinkhole, Xiaozhai Tiankeng, seems to be as if somebody used an huge apple corer to gauge a bit out of the earth’s core. Steep sides give approach to a deep, darkish abyss, shaded in mist and thriller. In China’s Chongqing Municipality, locals have identified in regards…

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“Of all the projects in Saudi Arabia, this was the one capable of meeting its deadline” says architect behind 1km-tall skyscraper

“Of all the projects in Saudi Arabia, this was the one capable of meeting its deadline” says architect behind 1km-tall skyscraper

Saudi Arabia‘s Jeddah Tower is on the right track to be the world’s first kilometre-tall constructing. But, architect Gordon Gill tells Dezeen in this interview, a skyscraper double that top is already lifelike. Together with Adrian Smith and Robert Forest, Gill co-founded Chicago-based studio Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture, a skyscraper specialist and the…

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