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Old Posted Jun 6, 2012, 2:58 PM
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CHANGSHA | Sky City | 847m | 2778ft | 220 floors

Broad Sustainable Buildings, the group that erected a 30 story building in 2 weeks, have announced their first megatower project. It will be in Changsha, where their headquarters are located. If it can be erected as quickly as anticipated, it has the potential to be the next worlds tallest building.


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Broad can be built will be built 220 layer of the world's tallest building - can be built on J220
At May 21, 2012

Following 15 days of completion of 30 floors 9 SEISMIC six times and materials, five times as energy-saving, 20 times to clean up the air after the Tower Hotel, ambitious recent release of information construction in Hunan, 220 layers of the world's tallest building "can be built on J220 The building is expected within 2 months of construction completed, the plan completed by the end of 2012 or early 2013. Can be built on the J220 will be Burj Dubai ten meters higher, up to 847m.
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Old Posted Jun 6, 2012, 3:13 PM
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I'm not getting anywhere near, let a lone inside an 800 meter tower constructed in a few months.

Some people are just beyod stupid. Looks like a vision anyway.
     
     
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Old Posted Jun 6, 2012, 3:53 PM
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I'm not getting anywhere near, let a lone inside an 800 meter tower constructed in a few months.

Some people are just beyod stupid. Looks like a vision anyway.
uhh.. wha?
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uhh.. wha?
they're claiming to be able to build this tower in 6 months and it's higher than Burj Khalifa.

Such a thing obviously can't safely be done.
     
     
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Old Posted Jun 7, 2012, 2:28 AM
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847m 220F changsha city

The building will be built in Changsha City, China, the height will be more than One tower of the international financial center under construction in the 452-meter-high
     
     
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wow... that's an original and innovative design...
     
     
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I'm rating this one as Not Happening/10, especially the part about it rising in 6 months. The foundations alone would take at least 6 months to construct and a year or so is much more likely.

I really would not want to be anywhere near such a tall tower constructed that hastily because one big quake will almost certainly knock this thing down and cause incalculable damage to the city and tens of thousands of lost lives at the very least, possibly more depending if the tower is occupied at the time of the quake. Hell, this tower will weigh so much it might even trigger an earthquake.
     
     
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I'm rating this one as Not Happening/10, especially the part about it rising in 6 months. The foundations alone would take at least 6 months to construct and a year or so is much more likely.

I really would not want to be anywhere near such a tall tower constructed that hastily because one big quake will almost certainly knock this thing down and cause incalculable damage to the city and tens of thousands of lost lives at the very least, possibly more depending if the tower is occupied at the time of the quake. Hell, this tower will weigh so much it might even trigger an earthquake.
The occupancy rates will be so low that only 100 or so people would die.
     
     
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Here's another picture of the model.



The tower has a cruciform cross section with a buttressed core, similar to the Burj Khaliffa.
     
     
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Here's another picture of the model.



The tower has a cruciform cross section with a buttressed core, similar to the Burj Khaliffa.
That model looks like it will fall over in less than 90 days let alone an actual building.
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That model looks like it will fall over in less than 90 days let alone an actual building.
the building or the chick?

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the building or the chick?

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Well, now that you mention it she's kinda got a leaning tower of Pisa thing going on too. I guess both!
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Why China's Plan To Build The World's Tallest Skyscraper In 90 Days Is 'Madness'

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Earlier this year, a Chinese construction company announced plans to build a new "world's tallest skyscraper," an 838-meter highrise in Changsha. It also promised to complete the building, called Sky City One, in an astonishing 90-day timeline, and to do it for $628 million — around a third of the cost of the Burj Khalifa, which currently holds the title of the world's tallest building.

- Pre-fabrication has revolutionized the building industry — applying this now as a strategy for tall buildings under the right conditions is brilliant. The irony is that at the same time, if you look at the outcome of this endeavor urbanistically, it is at best a folly, and at worst, madness. The proposition that a city can be contained within one building is unnatural and devastating to the human spirit.

- The process of making buildings as a local activity enriches the local economy, draws on local resources and develops local skills. The efficiencies gained in off-site modular prefabrication come at the risk of impoverishing the uniqueness, identity and regional wisdom that evolves in different places. This is not to ignore that certain elements of buildings will be sourced or fabricated elsewhere, but that the majority of the act of building should be a sector of a local economy. The more that the activity of building happens remotely, the more individual places are deprived of their own expertise, identity and self-determination.

- The standardization of the building format for Sky City One, repetition of structural elements, and proportionately high volume of space enclosed by the design all add up to significant cost savings. Also, realizing the efficiencies that arise from pre-fabrication and limiting costly construction time on-site reduce the real costs of construction. The irony of building quickly and cheaply is that we ultimately live with our buildings for decades to come, maybe centuries. Buildings that allow long-term use accommodate restoration and reinvestment. In the category of ultra-tall buildings, quick and cheap may be fitting. I say this because these buildings really have no long-term future. The technologies involved are so specific to one moment in time and one manufacturing process that they later prove to be un-restorable.

- Allusions to the audacity of the Empire State Building in New York in the 1930s abound. Even Sky City One’s Art Deco-inspired hero-rendering and its formal stepped design puts off the same monumental aspirations. The Empire State boasted construction in 13 months, Sky City One boasts three months. The Empire State rose at five stories a week, Sky City anticipates five stories a day. Updated for technological advances nearly a century later, it follows that these exponential metrics should be possible. But we must still ask, what does this prove? Fancy, folly, or foolish prestige?

- Density is often presented as the inevitable need and justification for skyscrapers. However, it should rather be understood as a question of format. Density can either be located within fewer tall buildings with inordinately large open spaces around them to allow light to reach building surfaces, or it can be arranged in networks of low to mid-rise buildings with more compact and legible open spaces around them, such as walkable streets, parks, and plazas, providing a more comfortable human habitat. Let’s remember that the average height of a building in Manhattan is three stories.

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They're both pretty homely. Yeah I said it.
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Just what I was thinking - needs sexier woman to attract investors.
     
     
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Old Posted Jun 8, 2012, 8:37 AM
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The model (of the building) looks crooked.
     
     
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The model (of the building) looks crooked.

I thought i was the only one who noticed that. lol

Anyway this thing is a turd.
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They may have the calculations correct, but in China constructors cut corners everywhere (to save money into their own pockets) and things are not built like they were planned to. So I would still stay far away from this hideous building, if ever completed.

Building quality doesn't go hand in hand with building fast or building with slave force.
     
     
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Haha yeah I think it is.

What chance do they have of building a 850m building when they cant even build a 5m model properly?
     
     
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