One of the world's most ambitious building projects, Crystal Island will cost $4 billion and it is scheduled to be built within next 5 years in Moscow. It will be enclosed within a vast mega structure covering a total floor area of 2.5million square metres -- floor area alone will be four times the size of Pentagon in Washington DC.
Pipe dream?
Pipe dream? If the pipe most concerned continues to flow oil at the rate of almost $100 a barrel, I could see it happening. But the question is ...why?
ReplyDeleteIt would cost more than $4 billion and take longer than 5 years is my first guess. And who would be able to afford to live there? Oilagarchs and similarly wealthy, connected Russians? How very Ballardian, a kind of rich person's "Billenium," or hermetically-controlled "Concrete Island," not crystal. This is a classist sort of development.
Question: how many Chechnyans piloting how many Aeroflot passenger jets would it take to bring it down as a retaliatory political action? Just wondering...