China's New Mega Structures

[Maork]

Includes Beijing Airport the worlds biggest upon completion designed by Fosters and Co.


New buildings in China (http://images.businessweek.com/ss/05/12/china_wonders/index_01.htm)

The future is bright the future is China.

[MIGleader]

:china: let me tell u, having lived in shanghai, i know this is exactly the way the ccp likes to show off china's new wealth and technology. 21st century buildings are rising like crazy, each accompanied by som kind of tech expo.

this is awsome!!!
:china:

[Roger604]

Yay for China!!!

Much of this is thanks to talented overseas Chinese who return to support the motherland! :china:

[swimmerXC]

ha the Shanghai World Financial Center got a square hole now instead of the circle, i guess the Japanese Enginneer in charge of this project didn't want to get fired
check out this site, most of the world!!
http://www.skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?8978577

[SampanViking]

Hi Roger Hi Swimmer

Interesting Websites. I particularly enjoyed the skyscraperpage.com. Its quite amazing just how beautiful many of thes new buildings are. Its sad to see how few are being built in UK. The Conservation movement have such a stranglehold on planning laws now that building anything high is all but impossible. Sometimes I think we really are in danger of sliding into looking like a third world country.

It was also interesting to see where the majority of these projects are simply proposed and where they are largely under construction.

[Wingman]

Whoa, pretty amazing.
Cant wait to go back and check them out. Just a few more years...

[Maork]

Modern China: An Architectural Conundrum (PART I) (http://blog.davidteoh.com/archives/2004/01/modern_china_an.html)

A blog on China's architectural scene with good insight by David Teoh.

Modern China: An Architectural Conundrum (PART III) (http://blog.davidteoh.com/archives/000192.html)

[MIGleader]

it seems many of these super structures will be completed by 2008, thats amazing speed and progress. i will look forward to seeing em(im going back to china in 08!!) the 60th anneversary of the prc will certainly be a glorious one

[Maork]

The world's biggest single development to turn the Yangtse River Delta into the planet's first eco-city.

Shanghai plans eco-metropolis on its mudflats (http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,1681277,00.html) :)



But can China square confucianism with explosive economic growth? (http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,1681278,00.html) :confused:

[ahho]

why does the shang hai finantial center look like a piece of knife without the handke

[T-U-P]

why does the shang hai finantial center look like a piece of knife without the handke
i think that's just the way the picture is drawn. in reality it's a square if you look top-down. how are the safety equipments in these buildings? how do the designers make sure that they can withstand a major earthquake? or some how a huge fire? or terrorist bombings (which is not unlikely when china becomes the world's economic center)?

[swimmerXC]

i think that's just the way the picture is drawn. in reality it's a square if you look top-down. how are the safety equipments in these buildings? how do the designers make sure that they can withstand a major earthquake? or some how a huge fire? or terrorist bombings (which is not unlikely when china becomes the world's economic center)?

well they building hasn't been built yet, they only digged the foundation like a couple of months ago so they have time to improve. i dont think any skyscarpers are going to survive a 747 hit, unless the Shanghai Mayor orders a couple of S-300, TY-90, PL-9D, Ly-60, FM-80 or Tor around the building.... :coffee:
Then again they might have a Humvee with Yitian on it drive by everyday for protection... :o

[Wingman]

[url=http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,1681277,00.html]
Wow is that the first Western article that calls China a nominally communist country rather than commuist China

Very amazing project, makes me feel proud :china:

[sumdud]

Well, anyone have an idea of how to leave a skyscraper in an emergency if you can't leave through the stairs?

[MIGleader]

you take a parachute and jump off of the top of the building. :D
but the people in the morth and south tower, unfortunately, didnt have parachutes.

[sumdud]

Well, practically no skyscraper have those. And no chopper service is around to either spray water into those high fire truck-unreachable floors or to pick up people on top of the building. (Then again, symbolic skyscrapers usually doesn't allow people to go to the roof. The housing apartments in Hong Kong and I suppose Singapore(Please confirm/correct this guys) are the only ones I know where people get rescued b going to the roof.)

I hope people are considering such disasters in their construction.

[T-U-P]

i believe that most skyscrapers relies on the internal sprinkler system to distinguish fire in the places that are too high for firetrucks. and they've been fairly effective if the whole structure does not collapse and the water pipes are still running. but i still don't feel positive to those sprinklers, i mean thousands (or tens of thousands) of people are going to rely on those tiny little outlets of water to save them... hmm...

[sumdud]

If the pipes are running............. You know what was one the things that broke down during that day right?..... Yea, I wouldn't trust them.

[drunkhomer]

really impressive on how china has com along in da past few years....i went 2 beijing and shanghai 3 years ago on a school trip and i was really amazed wif all the futuristic skyskrapers and all....if i ever had a chance to hav another vacation in china...i wouldnt hesitate to go

[petty officer1]

Woww! you chinese are really working hard!!! :china: I myself only been to china once, but i went to the south, so i don't see to much of those building
:( By 2008 A lot people will be inpressed(and jealous) by the new china! when I finished university, I definaly will go to china for trip! (that is why i am learning chinese right now);)

[swimmerXC]

Woww! you chinese are really working hard!!! :china: I myself only been to china once, but i went to the south, so i don't see to much of those building
:( By 2008 A lot people will be inpressed(and jealous) by the new china! when I finished university, I definaly will go to china for trip! (that is why i am learning chinese right now);)

SOUTH? dude... Hong Kong and Shenzen is all buildings.... most of the southern cities have skyscrapers...

If the pipes are running............. You know what was one the things that broke down during that day right?..... Yea, I wouldn't trust them.

my idea: put CO2 tanks surrounding the floor..... or u can just make it that the whole building can act as a vacum :o

[sumdud]

Whole building act as a vaccum? How'll that work? How'll that help?