A huge space-age ring is imagined by architects in Dubai to encircle the highest structure in the world.
Source: https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/dubai-downtown-circle-znera-space-design-spc-intl/index.html
Author: Nadia Leigh-Hewitson
The Downtown Circle concept, which marries community, luxury, and futuristic urban planning in a crazily ambitious design, has been brought to life by a series of captivating graphics made in partnership with Pictown, a business that specializes in architectural renderings.
Najmus Chowdry and Nils Remess, the lead architects of ZNera Space, view Downtown Circle as a horizontal line against Dubai's dizzying, futuristic cityscape of seemingly limitless towers.
The Downtown Circle is, for the time being, a financially and practically unfeasible concept, Chowdry and Remess admit.
It was intended to be a conversation opener, according to Chowdry. "Something that might make people reconsider urban expansion and city congestion... We pledge to build a sustainable city.
"We were working on very important aspects that raise the discussion about how we are planning cities," Remess continued. We chose the Burj Khalifa because it is located in an extremely populated urban region, and we want to address the problems that come with it.