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"textContent": "In 1995 the Japanese construction giant Taisei Corporation unveiled plans for the X-Seed 4000, a tower four kilometers tall — a building shaped like Mount Fuji that would have stood 224 meters higher than the actual mountain.\n\nIt called for 800 floors, room for up to a million residents in Tokyo Bay, and more than three million tonnes of steel. — Read the rest \n\nThe post What happened to the 2.5 mile high building designed to be taller than Mount Fuji? appeared first on Boing Boing.",
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