The World's Newest Tallest Buildings: China's Phoenix Towers

When it comes to architectural superlatives China is already home to the world’s largest building, biggest dam and longest sea bridge, to name a few. But soon, the Middle Kingdom plans to also be home to the world’s tallest, greenest — and pinkest — structure.

The British architectural studio Chetwoods recently unveiled its proposal to build a pair of pollution-scrubbing towers atop a lake in the Chinese city of Wuhan. The project, dubbed the Phoenix towers, will serve as massive beacons of China’s government-led focus on sustainability, and hopefully rake in big bucks from tourism. Both towers will be packed with environmentally friendly technologies on a grand scale, and the taller of the two buildings will rise 450 feet above the world’s highest structure, the Burj Khalifa.

The towers look like giant pink structures that were pulled straight out of the computer game Sim City 3000.

“In China if you come up with a slightly mad idea, its almost not mad enough,” studio founder Laurie Chetwood told Dezeen. “It’s the opposite of the U.K.”

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