This new building in Miami looks like your typical luxury skyscraper.
Swanky apartments,55-storeys,lots of glass and an infinity pool.
But Legacy Hotel and Residences is far from being a normal high-rise building.
Equipped with a state-of-the-art medical facility,hospital-grade ventilation systems, touchless entry and even a fleet of disinfection robots,it's been labelled the world's first pandemic-ready skyscraper.
In case you've been living under a rock,we feel obligated to say that the pandemic has had a pretty huge effect on our cities and the buildings in them.
Even now,with vaccines rolling out and many countries relaxing restrictions,some offices,hotels and public venues are struggling to entice workers and customers back inside.
For a lot of places,stocking up on hand sanitiser, encouraging social distancing and opening a few windows is all they've been able to do to ensure safety when they were given so little time to prepare.
But new structures have had the opportunity to integrate protective features from the beginning - and that's exactly what's happening at Legacy Hotel and Residences in Miami,albeit on a scale that no one quite anticipated.
Alongside its 300 residences and 200 hotel rooms, the USD $500 million skyscraper will have ten floors of advanced medical equipment and an array of high-tech safety kit throughout the building - including a ventilation system fit for a hospital,'germ-zapping' UV robots,voice-activated elevators,antimicrobial material on all the furniture and loads more.
The medical centre isn't just big - and expensive,at $100 million - it'll be the most technologically advanced health and well-being facility in the world - that's according to the CEO of the developer Royal Palm Companies.
