Zigs

A particularly optimistic design firm in Dubai called Timelinks has proposed designs for the Ziggurat, a complete city to be layered inside of a massive pyramid that could serve as home for a million people at a time. There goes the neighborhood? There is the neighborhood!

Timelinks is currently seeking patents for a variety of technologies that would make such a building possible, including a three axis public transportation system that would run residents up, through and across the pyramid. They also claim that with a hybrid wind, solar and steam power, the Ziggurat would be able to meet its own power needs, and that there would be enough room to allow for some minor agriculture in designated "green spaces." Before you just write this off as another wacky internet design concept, just consider the absurdly ostentatious structures that Dubai has already built or currently under construction. Not quite so silly I guess...