Carbon-eating skyscraper Tao Zhu Yin Yuan Tower to be completed in September in Taipei - TomoNews

TAIPEI — A carbon-eating, eco-friendly skyscraper in Taipei is expected to be completed in September. The designer says he hopes the structure can help battle air pollution and global warming.

The Tao Zhu Yin Yuan Tower, designed by Paris-based Vincent Callebaut Architectures, features one central core tower with two helicoidal towers around it. The design was inspired by the double helix of a DNA strand.

The 21-story tower features 40 luxury condos, hallways with glass flooring and a swimming pool. The 1,000 m² photovoltaic roof will convert solar energy into electricity for the building. Rainwater will also be collected and recycled in the building.

Some 23,000 trees and shrubs will fill the tower’s facade, roof and balconies.The plants reportedly will absorb 130 tons of carbon dioxide emissions per year, which is the equivalent of about 27 cars.

“Outlandish and futuristic as they may seem, the core of all my designs is an attempt to address the real threat that cities pose for humankind and our ecological balance,” architect Vincent Callebaut told CNN.
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[madelyn]

If you carefully notice then you can see that the video starts at 00:00

[hchsu]

I live in Taipei.
They sell it for 74 million USD for each unit.

[typicalx]

6th comment and Yay the earth is saved if we make more skyscrapers like that.

[behzadahmad]

How is the wooden football stadium eco friendly when u need to chop down tons of trees for it.

[loliconjanai]

So all we need is a building and put tons of trees in it and it will become eco friendly?

If it really work we need more of this building type

[SpottedPredator]

A wood stadium I wonder how happy the termite will be

[skylinefever]

Who wants to bet that the taxpayer was stuck with the entire bill for the wood stadium, but some millionaire who owns the sports team got the majority of the wealth? That happens in several cities across the USA.

[Withnail]

yes giant skyscrapers made of steel and concrete, very eco friendly.

[kuglefang]

That building looks like a bitch to maintain

[TheFumizuki]

Now This give's me hope to slow down clement change

[skylinefever]

I'm sure the most profitable Aerofarm will be in Colorado, where the technology enables people to get the best high out of every single marijuana plant.

[eggs]

Just 27 cars per year? That is extremely, I mean extremely, extremely LOW. Seriously. One building will not make almost no difference. They would have to build thousands of those buildings to see differences in their air pollution.

[emenot]

WILL RAIN WATER UNBALANCE THE BUILDING?!?!?! 😂😂😂😎😎😎

[ChrisPBacon-exdu]

Ima freeze myself so i can live in the future with buildings like this

[HowlitzerPaul]

Every major city needs a tree of life.

[cripto]

Cant hurt the air quality in these chinese mega-city. Maybe the comies will follow?

[URCompliant]

Yeah...GMO crops for everyone, cook em up or eat em' raw while sitting in your new, modern, "green", "life cubical", you call a house...