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Sutyagin's Moving Castle or Ruskyscraper

Mon, 10/23/2006 - 00:34 — deadprogrammer

Slowly but steadily making my way through all of the Studio Ghibli films, I recently watched Howl's Moving Castle. It made me remember the wooden skyscraper in Archangelsk I wrote about before.

Apparently the skyscraper is still standing, although it looks like it has deteriorated significantly. I cleaned removed the old broken links from my old article about it and got permission from Nikolai Gernet aka nixette to use one of his photos. Archangelsk has a rich history of wooden architecture and nixette has more photos here and here as well as many other interesting pictures from Archangelsk and of Sutiagin's wooden skyscraper in particular.

It's interesting to note that both Russia and Japan have a rich tradition of wooden architecture.

Sutiagin's Wooden SkyscraperHowl's Moving Castle

While looking for info about this, I found another gem: the conceptual design called Ruskyscraper by Eugene Staune who works for Arhitekturium architectural firm. It's supposed to have 25 stories of 10.8ft each made primarily out of wood and glass. The articles describe it as economical, but I really doubt that-- if there's anything that I've learned from watching The New Yankee Workshop, wood can be very expensive. This project would probably use laminated engineered lumber, so I guess it could be doable.

The floor plan seems to be rather wasteful, but hey, this is a concept design, not something that is probably going to be built.

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Thu, 10/26/2006 - 20:30 — jayKayEss (not verified)

The story of the wooden skyscraper reminds me of Broken Angel, the (in)famous Brooklyn art building that will be torn down soon.

http://www.gothamist.com/archives/2006/04/22/brooklyns_broke.php


Thu, 10/26/2006 - 20:51 — deadprogrammer

Sagrada Familia it ain't, but the sheer disregard for NYC building code this guy exhibited is pretty impressive.


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