CHANGSHA | Sky City | 847m | 2778ft | 220 floors

[scalziand]

Originally Posted by koops65

"We do not intend to erect a landmark"

And it just happens to be 10 meters taller than the current WTB?

I think that's code for 'We don't care how ugly it is.'

[Hudson11]

Originally Posted by koops65

"We do not intend to erect a landmark"

And it just happens to be 10 meters taller than the current WTB?

does this even count as erecting a building... technically they're assembling it, aren't they?

[scalziand]

WAT

Reuters Magazine: The Made-in-China CEO

Thu Jun 28, 2012 6:39am IST
By Terril Yue Jones


Zhang Yue, founder and CEO of Broad Group, gestures as he talks about his building designs during an interview with Reuters in his office at the company's headquarter in Changsha, Hunan province April 26, 2012.


REUTERS - Zhang Yue fondly caresses the blueprints as he slowly flips through them, occasionally pausing to stare at a drawing as he explains his new project.

The plan seems impossibly ambitious: Build a 220-story building, the tallest in the world, in just four months by using the rapid-construction techniques his company has developed.

Zhang, a slight but wiry and intense man of 52, says "Sky City" - as he has dubbed it - can fix many of the world's pollution, congestion, transportation and even disease problems by completely purifying the tower's air. The 838-meter-tall building (10 meters taller than the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, currently the world's tallest) will hold schools, a hospital, 17 helipads and some 30,000 people. It will, indeed, be a city in the sky.

His dreams don't stop there.

Pinned up on his office wall are plans for a project even more audacious - an almost preposterously massive building two kilometers high. When asked to estimate the odds of this 636-floor giganto-scraper ever being built, Zhang responds without hesitation, "One hundred percent! Some say that it's sensationalism to construct such a tall building. That's not so. Land shortages are already a grave problem. There's also the very serious transportation issue. We must bring cities together and stretch for the sky in order to save cities and save the Earth. We must eliminate most traffic, traffic that has no value! And we must reduce our dependency on roads and transportation."


http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/0...85R00V20120628


Damn this guy has big plans.

Looking at the plans in the picture, it looks like it's a further development of the buttressed core concept, but where the buttresses have become so big they now have there own mini buttresses.

[ATLksuGUY]

Found an article comparing this tower to the mega towers in the new judge dredd movie. Btw the movie looks kinda cool, it appears they have to fight their way up a 200+ story skyscraper. Sweet.




http://nextbigfuture.com/2012/06/chi...clean-and.html

[Duck From NY]

Originally Posted by Eidolon

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.

[Roadcruiser1]

I don't know. This building looks a lot like what would have had happened if the Sears Tower and the Burj Dubai had a child together.

[ThatOneGuy]

RIP architecture.

[Lecom]

A cheapo, mass-produced megatall in China? ...Count me in. There's some quirky appeal about the whole concept. Very futuristic, though in a practical (at best) or dystopian (at worst) way, where the megatall becomes yet another form of the common vernacular.

[M.K.]

I've heard and read they would do it in 90 days.
For me, seems the same history lauch to be written, as happened some thousand years ago, of course in a glassy experience, but for sure the stable Tower of Babel shape seems most appropriate for that quick, yes we want to say, China is the empiror in buildings representing the work force for all over the world. The past history is happening again as always. History is always repeating the challenge to be the highest run. Resemblance: http://issachar5.files.wordpress.com...werofbabel.jpg

[-Filipe-]

well hopefully they dont go broke after they build this..considering chinas economy is already slipping..kinda reminds me of the sears tower tbh

[Kippis]

Lovely, so China is building yet another megatall skyscraper that will most likely have occupancy rates in the single digits...this can barely be considered news.

It honestly sounds like a proposal North Korea would come up with.

[haljackey]

Sky City in 60's Spider Man:

[jd3189]

Originally Posted by scalziand

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Pinned up on his office wall are plans for a project even more audacious - an almost preposterously massive building two kilometers high. When asked to estimate the odds of this 636-floor giganto-scraper ever being built, Zhang responds without hesitation, "One hundred percent!

Yeah... about that....

[jbermingham123]

Originally Posted by Roadcruiser1

I don't know. This building looks a lot like what would have had happened if the Sears Tower and the Burj Dubai had a child together.

Hahaha lol true dat

[Duck From NY]

Some of these developing countries and middle eastern boom towns are spending their surplus money on buildings that may actually end up destroying their real estate market.

Unbelievably amateur if you ask me.

Don't get me wrong, I wish them the best. I love the skyscrapers they are building, but man is this just silly.

[scalziand]

Better renderings out now- almost makes it look good.

[MolsonExport]

article today in Glob and Mail (Canadian newspaper) http://www.theglobeandmail.com/repor...rticle4575806/

[Dylan Leblanc]

ah look at that

[WTCman7301]

It looks like a giant Sears Tower.

[Urbana]

Willis Tower meets Burj Khalifa if you ask me