There have been some architectural oddities announced in 2022 and one that got my attention is the floating city shaped like a swimming turtle. The architect has estimated a cost in the range of US $8 billion (or $12 billion in other articles). It is called a terayacht.
"Described as a Terayacht by Lazzarini, (the architect), the Pangeos is named after the Pangea (or Pangaea) supercontinentthat existed hundreds of millions of years ago. It would make even the largest of the current crop of megayachts look like mere dinghies, with a length of 550 m (roughly 1,800 ft) and a maximum width of 610 m (2,000 ft)."
"The hull would be built from steel and would feature a turtle-shaped base topped by an oval structure that supports a maximum of 60,000 people, with hotels, shopping centers, parks, both ship and aircraft ports, luxury villas, clubs, and everything else needed to maintain a floating community in the middle of the ocean."
"Naturally, a vessel this size would require some hardcore propulsion and the Pangeos would be equipped with nine massive cutting-edge HTS (high-temperature superconducting) motors, each of which would be electric and capable of producing the equivalent of 16,800 horsepower, allowing it to cruise at a stately 5 knots (5.75 mph).
The power to run the floating city would come from solar panels, plus electricity would be produced using its large flipper-like structures, which would harness energy from the sea with some kind of wave energy generator system, allowing the ship to cruise indefinitely."
Is it a mobile island, perhaps?
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