I wouldn't be so sure. China seems to be building a lot of empty "skyscraper cities" lately in anticipation that they'll become a high density place. Only time will tell, but it hasn't been a successful venture in many areas of that country.

I'm sure Tianjin is a more urbanized area already though, although I know little about that city...

This was 597m for the longest time, when did it go up to 600m?

it's a new CBD. The old one has more European heritage buildings (Tianjin was a treaty port) and not a huge amount can be built, with many of the new developments mid-rise and brick faced etc.


http://learnmyshot.com/photos/083-China/china15.jpg http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/travel/...136d94561b.jpg
http://learnmyshot.com, www.chinadaily.com.cn

http://www.whatsontianjin.com/travel...i_church_1.jpg http://www.whatsontianjin.com/travel...nch%20bank.jpg
www.whatsontianjin.com


This has resulted in some horrible pastiche:


http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y18...3225bRsplU.jpg

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3qyutFfTw1qbzj9f.png http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/life/im...0ec4101836.jpg
theadventuresofemmy.tumblr.com


but also convincingly good stuff too:


http://blogs.crikey.com.au/theurbani...d-building.jpg http://images.inmagine.com/img/eastp...1/ep181228.jpg
http://blogs.crikey.com.au/theurbanist, http://images.inmagine.com
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7042/7...49a102cf_z.jpg
Matt Ullenboom, http://www.flickr.com/photos/ullenboom/7001705100/

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7272/7...77291794_z.jpg
Matt Ullenboom, http://www.flickr.com/photos/ullenboom/7001704642/

http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/med.../76/church.jpg http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6006/...052cdeb9_z.jpg
http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com, http://keehuachee.blogspot.co.uk/201...jin-china.html



of course there's still the hi-tec stuff too


http://www.scmp.com/sites/default/fi...?itok=YDuaEMol
www.scmp.com

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/image...ketriplev2.jpg
http://news.bbcimg.co.uk

http://www.designboom.com/weblog/ima...dtheater01.jpg
www.designboom.com

^That's London-worthy contrasts in the building styles.

http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/411/b4ae.jpg
kanye

http://i.imgur.com/svRi80t.jpg
BarbaricManchurian

http://i.imgur.com/geVIcA7.jpg
lulujune

http://i.imgur.com/yColAdk.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/6YSp57V.jpg
BarbaricManchurian

http://i.imgur.com/ZFW8A6d.jpg
tiger1018

that thing is already a behemoth.

Wow, really interesting to see this one go up!

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/160...0/707/bnpq.jpg
feipeng8865

http://i.imgur.com/cG1YUsg.jpg
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpo...postcount=1785

Damn, this construction site is so cool!

Looking good. :tup:

This thread is now diamonds.
http://i.imgur.com/UCngPwo.jpg
cscectiajin117

http://i.imgur.com/v3Cjp0W.jpg
BarbaricManchurian

http://i.imgur.com/U0Pveum.jpg
BarbaricMAnchurian

What a beautiful city.

The double boom platforms parallel the diagonal line across the concrete core, so that the shorter of the two booms on either platform can rotate "under" the reach of the longer boom, enabling coverage overlap. The gained efficiencies lower in a functional proportion to "rectangularity."

Square cores and square curtain wall defined floors would respond to this construction technique the quickest (be the cheapest to build).