This is an archive of the mabination.com forums which were active from 2010 to 2018. You can not register, post or otherwise interact with the site other than browsing the content for historical purposes. The content is provided as-is, from the moment of the last backup taken of the database in 2019. Image and video embeds are disabled on purpose and represented textually since most of those links are dead.
To view other archive projects go to
https://archives.mabination.com
-
BobYoMeowMeow wrote on 2012-11-08 01:16
[Image: http://resources2.news.com.au/images/2012/11/07/1226512/240362-8city.jpg]
It may look like something out of Star Wars, but this is actually Korea’s latest tourism project, set to rival the extravagance on show in Dubai.
At $264 billion, the ambitious plan would see the creation of a gigantic city on the islands of Yongyu-Muui in the port of Incheon, close to Incheon International Airport.
Spanning 80 square kilometres, its designers claim the 8City project would be the largest single tourism plan in the world. That’s if they can manage to pull it off.
It would include a “megastrip†which, at 200 metres high, 880m wide and 3.3 kilometres long, would be the world’s largest single architectural unit.
An “inner circle†would also be built, comprising of a tubular 14-kilometre building.
The city would be home to luxury hotels, condominiums, casinos and theme parks as well as shopping centres, a concert hall and Formula One racing track.
For those seeking something out of the ordinary, there would also be a medical tourism “healing town†and entertainment “hallyu†town.
The 5.7 million passengers passing through Incheon International Airport every year will be targeted, along with Chinese tourists, a head of the project developer said.
"It will become the world's top city that has the creativity of Dubai, convention centers and casinos of Las Vegas and Macau, as well as the shopping centers and financial hubs of Hong Kong and Singapore," Park Seong-Hyun, vice chairman of EIGHTCITY Co., the project's developer, said.
The project, scheduled for completion by 2030, will be funded by the city and investors. The developer has already secured $2.8 billion from South Korean investors and $1 billion from the UK's Sanbar Development Corporation, to help get the project off the ground.
http://www.news.com.au/travel/world/thats-outrageous-plan-for-264b-mega-city/story-e6frfqai-1226512233665
awful idea considered the global environment changes
but a project like this brings a lot of interesting architecture research and development
-
paladin wrote on 2012-11-08 01:20
if they get funding!
-
Kollin wrote on 2012-11-08 01:21
Looks like a penis.
-
Excalibur wrote on 2012-11-08 01:24
Quote from Kollin;977471:
Looks like a penis.
Shit dude, way to ruin the design of a $264 billion project.
-
Altava wrote on 2012-11-08 01:25
Quote from Kollin;977471:
Looks like a penis.
My thoughts exactly.
It looks so showy and tacky though, like seriously.
[SIZE="1"][S]Like a big colorful dildo[/S][/SIZE]
-
Calisto wrote on 2012-11-08 01:31
I thought it looked like a penis about 1 second after seeing it. Wow.
-
EndlessDreams wrote on 2012-11-08 01:36
261 billion more dollars to fund the penis shaped city?
Watch it be empty of people actually wanting to live/work/visit there after they miraculously completed it
-
BobYoMeowMeow wrote on 2012-11-08 01:46
Quote from paladin;977470:
if they get funding!
the article said the city already has the investors and city to fund it
-
Altava wrote on 2012-11-08 01:47
Quote from BobYoMeowMeow;977492:
the article said the city already has the investors and city to fund it
Is someone going to tell them to revise their design so they don't become a tourist attraction for the wrong reason?
-
Chillax wrote on 2012-11-08 02:00
Quote from Altava;977494:
Is someone going to tell them to revise their design so they don't become a tourist attraction for the wrong reason?
Well, they already have a penis park, so they might have figured, "Why not?".
-
TLCBonaparte wrote on 2012-11-08 02:00
[video=youtube;bu6VHYS97tI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bu6VHYS97tI[/video]
-
Chiyuri wrote on 2012-11-08 02:29
I guess my mind is still too innocent.. I didn't think of it as one until soemone said it.
-
boonhobo wrote on 2012-11-08 16:06
i can see it now on some parody news website "Plans to Erect $264 Billion Megacity in South Korean". Regardless of purity of mind, you will see the phallus.
-
Sumpfkraut wrote on 2012-11-08 16:13
Kinda weird concept.
Hopefully they will have adequate bordellos available.
And I don't see any dick. I just see a stylised Predator drone and my mind is definitely not "innocent", lol.
-
Maenad wrote on 2012-11-08 17:42
Guys, this is South Korea we're talking about. It's going to happen, and all the technology will be completely obsolete to Koreans by the time they're done, whilst still being extremely futuristic to the rest of us.