WUXI | Farmer's Apartments | 1,076 FT / 328 M | 74 FLOORS

[malec]

Updates from a long time ago but better than nothing. Apparantly this is topped out now.

Originally Posted by z0rg

July 23

[Infernal_Elf]

looks like some kind of anime movie i kinda feel i want to watch.

on the picture with 7 classical chinese buildings and then this thing just pops out. very intresting development indeed.

and it must look huge when ewrything else is only like 30-40 meters max close to it.

and yeah this seems to be a city in a skyscraper test project.

[Dylan Leblanc]

This is the closest thing to a Sim City arcology that I know of!!

http://absurdlakefront.tumblr.com/po...rcologies-were

[Infernal_Elf]

any new pictures of this very intresting project.

would love to see shots from other angles and far away

and its kinda funny really its taller than all of the buildings in wuxi downtown

[Troubadour]

Originally Posted by Dylan Leblanc

This is the closest thing to a Sim City arcology that I know of!!

http://absurdlakefront.tumblr.com/po...rcologies-were

That's exactly what I thought!

[Crush_Buds]

Originally Posted by Troubadour

That's exactly what I thought!

You guys rock! Great memories of the arcology. So true too!

[Dylan Leblanc]

Originally Posted by oliver999

visted the village ,and take some pics myself.

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showth...556647&page=16

Originally Posted by z0rg

Posted by yzyf_1

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showth...556647&page=17

[OneWorldTradeCenter]

Cool tower! Especially the ball atop the roof...

[Infernal_Elf]

Thanks for finding more pictures

this so definitely goes into my book of favorite skyscrapers it looks amazing.

and this unique design kinda makes it look well on its own. it really is a very good smaller version of the 1000m Tokyo sky city vision

and i think it will really stand out even today with all the skyscrapers being built everywhere.

[BStyles]

We finally brought Sim City to the real world.

That ball on top of the tower is just plain amazing!

[SkyscrapersOfNewYork]

was this thing even in demand in Wuxi?

[drewmandan]

Originally Posted by SkyscrapersOfNewYork

was this thing even in demand in Wuxi?

It's called central planning.

[muppet]

it's not in Wuxi at all (this thread title is misleading), it was funded by farmers turned cooperative businessmen, and is in the 'countryside' near a small township. These are the richest farmers in China - people who've become multi-millionnaires from their property and eneterprises, but by that local law must still live on that property.


This whole area, for thousands of square miles around Shanghai-Hangzhou, and for tens of millions of people is considered rural.

Some of the single family homes and villas provided free from the exorbitantly rich council - but they are still farmers, and this is still countryside- check out the tilled fields and lack of roads:

[Obey]

This building is really ugly

[Fabb]

This building looks like it's the brainchild of an engineer, not a designer.
I like it precisely for that reason.
There's no attempt to make it look pretty, it doesn't succumb a style. Just a proud, soaring structure.

[Obey]

Originally Posted by Fabb

This building looks like it's the brainchild of an engineer, not a designer.
I like it precisely for that reason.
There's no attempt to make it look pretty, it doesn't succumb a style. Just a proud, soaring structure.

no, not at all. there was obviously an attempt to make it look pretty

[shakman]

Drop to sphere on top and then I will like this structure. Very unique tower.

[Dylan Leblanc]

Originally Posted by muppet

it's not in Wuxi at all (this thread title is misleading), it was funded by farmers turned cooperative businessmen, and is in the 'countryside' near a small township.

What is the name of the city or town that this tower is in? I know it's not Wuxi, but I'm not sure what city in the database to put it into.

The location is here - http://ditu.google.com/maps?q=31.828...26590&z=17&t=h

[Spocket]

^Looks like Huashizhen but it'll never show up on a database search if you mark it as such (because nobody would ever think to look for something there in the first place)
Since it's in the Shanghai Megalopolis you could just list it that way I guess . Or maybe as part of the Yangtze delta megalopolis (or something along those lines)
Pretty soon the database is going to have to make certain allowances for the Chinese urban structures . There are about ten super-city regions which don't really fall very neatly into either rural or urban classifications .
This isn't Wuxi and it's not Shanghai either but could be called part of an urban agglomeration with Shanghai acting as the anchor .

[Metranite]

Wuxi looks beautiful in that picture. I could live there.

Edit: Who am I kidding? I'd be permab& from China in a matter of weeks.