{"id":9889,"date":"2010-02-24T10:08:39","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T10:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/the-gyre-an-upside-down-floating-skyscrapper\/"},"modified":"2010-02-24T10:08:39","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T10:08:39","slug":"the-gyre-an-upside-down-floating-skyscrapper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/islands\/the-gyre-an-upside-down-floating-skyscrapper.php","title":{"rendered":"The Gyre: An Upside Down Floating Skyscrapper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2485\" href=\"http:\/\/www.privateislandsblog.com\/2010\/02\/23\/the-gyre-an-upside-down-floating-skyscrapper\/the-gyre\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2485\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/0a3a5_the-gyre-300x181.jpg\" alt=\"the-gyre\" width=\"300\" height=\"181\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a>I remember when a simple floating building was the avant guard of design. Now engineers are pushing the limits with even more outrageous designs. Can you imagine living in a high-rise apartment building where the 360 degree views are of fish and saltwater?<\/p><p>Although still just a concept, this upside-down, underwater eco-skyscraper (say that five times fast!)&nbsp;could be the future of building, especially if sea levels rise and we are forced to spend our lives living on floating islands. Designed by Victoria BC-based firm Zigaloo&nbsp;the Gyre is a floating eco development meant to be both a research station as well as an off shore resort complete with shops, restaurants, gardens and recreation.<\/p><p>Powered completely by the sun, wind and ocean, the Gyre would offer a zero emissions stay for both tourists and researchers hoping to gain a better understanding of the ocean&rsquo;s ecosystem.<\/p><p>Source:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.inhabitat.com\/2010\/02\/08\/the-gyre-a-floating-upside-down-eco-skyscraper\/\"> Inhabitat<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remember when a simple floating building was the avant guard of design. Now engineers are pushing the limits with even more outrageous designs. Can you imagine living in a high-rise apartment building where the 360 degree views are of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/islands\/the-gyre-an-upside-down-floating-skyscrapper.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islands"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9889"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}