Can we live in Pyramids now?

World Architecture News has some cool pictures of a carbon-neutral development in the shape of a pyramid that a company called Timelinks, based in Dubai, will be exhibiting. Apparently the Ziggurat (the name of the Mesopotamian pyramids) is capable of holding up to a million people - now that's a lot of people in little space.

Going in to the details of the planned project makes it sound extremely futuristic, but would also be a huge boon to the environment if such a project could take off. Inside the Ziggurat there are no roads - as there are alternative forms of transport that travel both vertically and horizontally. According to the reports such a structure would take up less than 10% of the land that current cities take up meaning there would be land to use for agriculture - but there would also be landscaped parks and agricultural land inside the Ziggurat.


We've all seen science fiction movies where huge numbers of people live in such buildings so for some, large communities in a self-contained city is their view of what the future will be like. If it's carbon-neutral and saves on land then I can imagine that one day they certainly would come in handy as the population continues to grow. Many people might not like the idea though as it'd be like living in a large building which rarely gives them a view of the outside world.