In an age when every self-respecting billionaire has a superyacht, one luxury yacht designer wants to go one further.
Lazzarini Design Studio – an Italian firm known for its crazy design concepts for luxury limousines, futuristic seaports, and flying superyachts – has come up with Pangeos, a gigantic “terayacht” that could one day be an ocean-going home for 60,000 people.
The 2,000-foot wide floating city will offer hotels, shopping centres, parks, a dock and even a mini airport.
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Perhaps the wildest aspect of the plan is that the monster structure will be shaped like a massive turtle. Lazzarini says construction of the huge sea-beast could start as soon as 2033, with a build time of eight years.
First, though, they would need to build a dedicated dry-dock to build the thing.
The company is already selling “virtual” NFT entrance tickets and VIP suites for £14 and £140 respectively – allowing fans to own a piece of the astonishing structure even if it’s never built.
The virtual cabins also serve as a deposit on the real thing, assuming the dream project ever comes to fruition.
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The overall build cost is projected to be in the region of $8billion (around £6,725,512,000).
Lazzarini’s plans will require a 2,000sq ft dry dock and they’re currently eyeing a site in Saudi Arabia.
A hundred hectares of sea bed would need to be dredged and a massive dam constructed at the site at King Abdullah Port, 81 miles north of Jeddah, before work on the monster vessel could begin.
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The floating city would be powered by a vast array of solar cells, promising a virtually endless supply of green energy to drive the nine 16,800 hp electric motors propelling it at speeds up to five knots on its endless voyage around the world’s oceans.
The steel hull comprises 30,000 individual buoyancy “cells” that, according to the designers, would make Pangeos “unsinkable”.
If the name of the project seems familiar, it’s named after Pangea – the prehistoric supercontinent that broke up some 200 million years ago to leave us with the world map we know today.
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