Most likely wasting my time with this autism-fueled pipe dream, but if you've read my free market initiation proposal, this tower could serve as a solid jumpstart project to incentivize the creation of private industry by housing potential clients in high quality office space. Multiple tenants could live under the 11 proposed stories, with tenants renting out floors (say rates for 1 - 5% of their weekly income in diamonds * the number of floors they rent). It would serve as a concrete and tangible HQ for potential office clients wishing to start up a company; a place where they could store documents, house numerous high profile factories. The tower itself would serve as an excellent project to initiate basic construction and material allocation industry considering the large amount of materials it would require.
As for the tower itself, I based it off dimensions of Extinction's balcony, featuring a 7 x 11 footprint. It would replace the entire balcony and cut slightly into Extinction's home. Extinction would receive compensation in the form of a percentage of all office tenants income being given to Extinction. The tower itself is incredibly centralized and in quite possibly the most high profile location in the city, sitting a block away from the town hall as to not overwhelm it while simultaneously preserving views. It would virtually serve as the premiere symbol to Nixonia's industry/office strength, serving as an encapsulating apex to the city's tower development before we expand outward beyond the main wall. A triumphant "fuck you" to all the other plebbit cities who can barely muster a town hall.
As for the design itself, I took literally every block into consideration to achieve a balance between maximizing floor space and came up with the aforementioned 7 x 11 footprint. After the lobby ends, the west and east walls cantilever one block outwards to garner a bit more floor space. The massing still remains relatively conservative, and it's location helps diminish any overwhelming affect it may have on the rest of the city. With the recent high rises going up, most of it will be obscured anyway.
The design features a grandiose, two story, high security lobby where you can check in and access the stairwell and elevator. Considering the substantial height, no one would want to climb 11 stories to the top floor, so the elevator is designed to drop people off at the 7th floor, leaving almost no floors more than 3 stories away in climbing height, whether you go down or up.
This is merely a proposition/suggestion and I'm not heavily pushing for this as I know people have mixed feelings over a large hulking mass of material.
PROS:
-Hopes to jumpstart free market industry
-Symbolic power to Nixonia might.
-Can jumpstart in particular a construction, material allocation industry
-Keeps people active around a central project
CONS
*IMPORTANT* Due to space restrictions, the tower design is relatively modern and featureless. (This is what most people will not like.)
-Incredibly large tower is not everyone's idea of city aesthetics
-Cut's into Extinction's current home.
-Entire plan could backfire and no one uses the tower
-Extremely heavy material usage
-Time consuming
-Can divert attention away from more priority tasks such as base defense
-Construction can be dangerous
1st image: Full scale model of tower. What you see is what you get.
2nd image: Full scale model of lobby.
3rd image: Typical full scale floor plan with three cubicles. (Companies can rent out more than one floor and use the floor to their liking.)
4th image: Massing visualization on the actual site. Very large, please keep this in mind.
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