Sorry, I posted it thinking they were real. I changed the title.
I guess this architect forgot the Quebec 1998 ice storm when towers collapsed in a cascading effect and were rebuilt with 'anti-cascading safety towers'. It would also be impossible to climb these and maintain them safely but they look awesome
"Award Winner: 2010 Boston Society of Architects Unbuilt Architecture"
All of these designs will require extensive guying, but most of the illustrations omit the needed guy cables. I suspect in reality these things would require more material and be far uglier (IMO) then the standard un-guyed designs in use today.
The third and fourth figures clearly show the guy-wires.
Are these real? They look like concept art.
Amazing concept anyways.
I'm from Iceland and I've never seen those. I saw these drawings a few years ago, but as far as I know... they're not being built.