China is going to build the worlds tallest building in 3 months China gonna china... 220 stories in 90 days starting in January. will house 30,000 people http://nationalpostnews.files.wordpr...e-04.jpg?w=940 The 90-day challenge starts in January, when the 220-storey tower will sprout module-by-module from a piece of farmland in the southeastern Chinese city of Changsha. Although Broad and its chairman Zhang Yue have stunned the world before — first in 2010 by building a 15-storey hotel in 48 hours and again a year later by stacking together a 30-storey tower in just 15 days — this latest creation, nicknamed Sky City, is the most audacious and aptly named: After the modules are stacked at a rate of roughly five storeys per day, Sky City will boast a hospital, a school, 17 helipads, and enough apartments to house 30,000. “If anyone else in the world made such a claim, it would be immediately thought of as crazy,” Mr. Beaudet said. “But China is very strong in engineering and organization.” The prefabricated tower — “prefab,” as the technique is already dubbed — will rise 10 metres higher than the current tallest building, Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, and according to Time.com it will rise a whopping 24 times quicker. For all its wonder, though, Sky City is not the culmination of Mr. Zhang’s lofty ambitions. “Pinned up on his office wall are plans for a project even more audacious — an almost preposterously massive building two kilometres high,” Reuters Magazine recently reported. “When asked to estimate the odds of his 636-floor giganto-scraper ever being built, Mr. Zhang responds without hesitation, ‘100%!’” Sky City: China’s tower will be the world’s tallest |
Will it be left empty like other buildings in China? but good for them America can learn a lesson or 2. They are still not even close to finishing the new world trade center buildings. |
whenever the chinese boast about how fast they can build something, it will always remind me of this |
I wonder how many safety things they will skip to meet the deadline. |
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whats the point for having such a fast deadline? just for the WOW factor? |
30,000 people is quite impressive though. |
i could imagine quantity >quality is the case here... |
How long before squatters move into the 25,000 unoccupied units and that whole place becomes a slum? |
china and dubai are competing for smallest penis/biggest buildings ratio |
It wouldn't take more than a Cessna to knock it over when its complete. They sure don't build worlds tallest buildings like they used to. |
it's pre-fab. imo that shit don't count. |
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Imagine living in those other buildings surrounding it? I'd be shitting my pants. |
God damn that's an ugly building. At least the Burj Khalifa's looks are both functional (to combat the wind) and aesthetically pleasing. |
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Will the new skyscraper stand up to an earthquake? Quality of work is a huge factor over using the right materials. Just because you can build it fast doesn't mean anything if the wind can blow it over. |
built in 90 days..... but might not last 90 days.... |
Depends on when they start counting the 90 days. The construction is all modular, so a lot of work can happen offsite. The logistics of moving all that material from supplier to site will take a good chunk of time, already. I don't see it happening in 90 days, unless it's just a shell, but we're not talking about North Korea here. |
H&S is probably an acronym for a hat and some socks... Part of me wishes that they prove everyone wrong and this building goes down in history, but another part of me wishes it falls over into the ocean by some wind...:badpokerface: |
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The immediate thing that comes to mind is the shape of the building, is it designed to withstand the winds that high up? I remember someone told me the Dubai building is curved and shaped in a way that it won't rip apart from the constant high winds at that altitude |
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I'm excited for the future, what if they actually pull it off? |
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