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. With a height of , the mammoth structure would have been approximately five times as tall as the former World Trade Center in

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. The Aeropolis 2001 was proposed in 1989, amid a spate of similar projects for incredibly large buildings. All were proposed during the

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, which ended in the early 1990s. According to a 1995 article, the corporation still had plans for the structure, and gave a proposed height of . At the time it proposed Aeropolis 2001, Obayashi Corp. also proposed building a city on the moon by 2050. Newspapers have reported little on either proposal since 1995.

Proposed details

Newspapers reported that plans called for the building to have 500 floors accommodating over 300,000 working inhabitants and 140,000 live-in residents. The structure was expected to be mixed-use, including

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s. It would have offered eleven square kilometers of floor space. A shuttle lift, with 300 seats, would have gone from the ground floor to the top floor in 15 minutes, and stopped at every 40th floor. The proposal called for the tower to be fully

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Aeropolis 2001 at Emporis Buildings

Proposed details

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