Wolkenbügel or 'Cloud-Irons', were horizontal skyscrapers proposed by El Lissitzky (A Russian artist, architect and typographer) in the 1920's. They were to be built at major intersections of the Boulevard Ring in Moscow. Each Wolkenbügel was a 180-meter-wide slab raised 50 meters above street level. Lissitzky's rational was that as long as humans cannot fly, moving horizontally is natural and vertical is not.
Although argued to have superior insulation and ventilation than regular 'American-styled' towers the Wolkenbügel were too drastic of a project to be built.
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