In Dubai, there is something known as The Lighthouse, a giant skyscraper encompassing 140,000 square meters, all-inclusive with a giant solar panel surrounded by its steel enclosure, vertical gardens, and many other aspects that will be the future in building codes to come. 
This Lighthouse, though not a technical lighthouse leading boats ashore to safety, this structure being built by the Atkins company, does so much to help the environment and keep our planet within its safe operational boundaries.
The investment into this building will make a long-standing impression on what building codes will become and how skyscrapers will rise in the next few decades. Due to the constant presence of plants and gardens, it is indefinitely greener; but let's not forget about the massive amounts of solar power, wind turbines, and directional weather vanes that this tower offers to increase wind power, solar power, and conservation of energy. This is what is predicted for the future of The Lighthouse, and large buildings of the future:
Designed by the Atkins group, the 400-meter office tower aspires to reduce its total energy consumption by up to 65% and water consumption by up to 40%...features such as floorplates interconnected by micro-atria and the inclusion of inter connecting vertical gardens are being actively considered to enhance the social aspects of this building. According to Atkins, this unique building, with a total construction area of 140,000 sq m, will become a working prototype for low carbon towers within the region and a model for more sustainable developments in the future.
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