Lotto Turm Tower
17/03/2009 13:51:16
We have a bit of interesting news for you today that takes recycling to a whole new level. A German designer, Lars Behrendt has come up with a concept to build an incredible tower in the middle of a roundabout in Stuttgart, Germany. The Lotto Turm Tower as it will be called would function as a mixed-use development with a sphere at the top, which would be used to announce the city’s lotto numbers.
The recycling bit comes in as the whole Lotto Turm Tower would be constructed of 55 old shipping containers, stacked on top of each other in a misshaped way. It will be designed to include a peaceful, noise free courtyard, balconies, terraces and fantastic stairs giving the whole stacked feel a wonderfully abstract quality.
Gardens and plants will accentuate the varied vertical landscape and the whole thing would be open to the public to enter and view the whole city from the lotto sphere at the top.
There are various thoughts for uses of the tower, including office space and residential apartments, plans are that one shipping container will even be used as a swimming pool with an upturned container providing a sunning deck right beside it.
If it goes ahead, the Lotto Turm will certainly be one of the most intriguing buildings ever created and the fact that the whole thing is to made from shipping containers really does take recycling and renewable living to a whole new level.
And if nothing else it’s provided the most interesting lottery based news piece of the last few days and I personally cannot wait to see lottery numbers called from a giant sphere on top of 55 shipping containers.
You can see pictures of the proposed design here and as you can see they are ostentatious to say the least
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