Plans for buildings that are not just big but truly huge adorn the walls of Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF), an architectural firm in New York. Some aspire to 200 storeys. In the aftermath of the World Trade Centre's collapse 18 months ago, such towering dreams seemed to have no chance of becoming reality. Yet on February 13th, ground will be broken in Shanghai for a KPF design that is intended to be the world's largest building: a tapering, multi-angled structure that will seem truly to scrape the clouds. In April KPF will complete work on a Tokyo complex with a central skyscraper that will feature one of the highest occupiable floors in Japan. Submissions are being readied for still bigger projects in several different countries.
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