Archinect - News2024-11-14T13:49:27-05:00https://archinect.com/news/article/45934378/lazika-from-swamp-to-instant-city
Lazika, from swamp to "Instant City"! Nam Henderson2012-04-22T22:27:00-04:00>2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/kn/knjedj5hy6pit3ge.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>The breakthrough, he said, would be a brand-new city and maritime port on the coast, 18 miles away — an idea now common in China...“This idea came to us — why can’t we do that in Georgia?” he said. “We looked out and we saw there is free space on the Black Sea coast.”</p></em><br /><br /><p>
Ellen Barry covers Georgian plans for a new city of half a million people, on a stretch of marshy land near the Black Sea. The first building, a futuristic Public Service Hall for the new city has already begun construction. However, a host of practical considerations from financing, to foundation requirements and future population are yet to be ironed out.</p>