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Worlds tallest building to be built in 90 days!

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  • #2
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,069 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    A great bunch of scaffolding


  • #3
    onemorechance
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,078 ✭✭✭onemorechance


    Wow! Won't happen!


  • #4
    krudler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    Holy crap, be like one of the Mega City towers in Judge Dredd


  • #5
    Grayson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,316 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    Hopefully they're better a constructing buildings than they are at trains.


  • #6
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,069 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    Grayson wrote: »
    Hopefully they're better a constructing buildings than they are at trains.

    They're not

    http://gizmodo.com/5304233/entire-new-13+story-building-tips-over-in-shanghai/gallery/1


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  • #7
    soirish
    Registered Users Posts: 713 ✭✭✭soirish


    They already did similar project in China, check youtube


  • #8
    franktheplank
    Registered Users Posts: 1,168 ✭✭✭franktheplank


    What's this a builders estimate, let me guess they'll be round next Tuesday to start?


  • #9
    Grayson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,316 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    My name is URL wrote: »
    They're not

    http://gizmodo.com/5304233/entire-new-13+story-building-tips-over-in-shanghai/gallery/1

    That building will flatten a city if it topples over like that one.


  • #10
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,522 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    but it's not built in 90 days, just erected. how long have they been building it off site?


  • #11
    donmeister
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,158 ✭✭✭donmeister


    UNDERESTIMATE THE CHINESE AT YOUR PERIL. Good day.


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  • #12
    Pottler
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    Absolutely brilliant. $1500 per sqm, fast, strong, brilliant. Behold the future of construction. It's more like 270 days of work compressed - 24 hr working and no lead times are quoted for the pre-fabrication works, those could take a while... but still a fantatic way to build. Makes sense to me anyway. I'd say a lot of major construction companies are doing a lot of head scratching and studies:D


  • #13
    Pottler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,073 ✭✭✭Pottler


    onemorechance wrote: »
    Wow! Won't happen!
    I bet it will. There's millions if not billions riding on it. (as opposed to the finished product, which will have thousands riding in it).


  • #14
    Lollers
    Closed Accounts Posts: 502 ✭✭✭Lollers


    Worlds tallest building in 90 days ?. Bah, a Celtic tiger developer could build 90 units in 1 day with the worlds largest paper trail.


  • #15
    galwayrush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,815 ✭✭✭✭galwayrush


    Those guys could have replaced Liberty Hall in 2 weeks.:pac:


  • #16
    Pottler
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    My name is URL wrote: »
    They're not

    http://gizmodo.com/5304233/entire-new-13+story-building-tips-over-in-shanghai/gallery/1
    How great would it be to live in one of the other, identical blocks still standing! I can hear the estate agent now -"No, totally safe, that one was a fluke, never happen again in a million years..":D But in fairness, that block was very skinny, and them piles look very skimpy. Surely the Broad groups efforts are a hell of a lot sturdier.


  • #17
    the_syco
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,305 ✭✭✭✭the_syco


    I wonder how many political prisoners will happen to be "working" in it the day it collapses?


  • #18
    1ZRed
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    What an ugly and dull building. By all means build bigger but make something that stands out and is unique. Something memorable and fitting of the world's tallest title, not some scaled up skyscraper from the early 1900s.


  • #19
    nucker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 790 ✭✭✭nucker


    They do have the manpower to do, so it is possible to build that skyscraper in 90 days, whether it is safe to live or work there is another matter


  • #20
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,069 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    1ZRed wrote: »
    What an ugly and dull building. By all means build bigger but make something that stands out and is unique. Something memorable and fitting of the world's tallest title, not some scaled up skyscraper from the early 1900s.

    It reminds me of that monstrosity in Pyongyang.

    I doubt they care too much about aesthetics anyway.. the fact that they want to do it in 90 days suggests that it's more a show of ability than necessity.


  • #21
    mfceiling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,862 ✭✭✭✭mfceiling


    Wrong.........someone said they are having a huge election in 90 days...


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  • #22
    Lapin
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    galwayrush wrote: »
    Those guys could have replaced Liberty Hall in 2 weeks.:pac:

    After a 17 year wait to hear back from planners.


  • #23
    EoghanIRL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,080 ✭✭✭EoghanIRL


    Imagine the elevator needed for a building that tall


  • #24
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 85,053 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Not really 90 days if it's all fabricated off site and lego'd together.

    Even if they do pull it off it will be like so many other massive building projects china has done - entire vacant cities that just show up out of nowhere just to justify the existence of their construction industry.


  • #25
    RikkFlair
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,109 ✭✭✭RikkFlair


    Tom Cruise is gonna be all over this for his next Mission Impossible movie.


  • #26
    Cienciano
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,310 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    It looks like a giant Hawkins House. Horrible thing.


  • #27
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,788 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    There was nothing pinning that thing to the ground! It doesn't seem to have any foundations at all.


  • #28
    1ZRed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,293 ✭✭✭1ZRed


    mfceiling wrote: »
    Wrong.........someone said they are having a huge election in 90 days...

    Misread that as "huge erection" and I was thinking "China?!"

    :pac:


  • #29
    Daithi 1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,006 ✭✭✭Daithi 1


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FynWETakS9U


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjGhHl-W8Wg


  • #30
    paddy147
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    Doom wrote: »
    http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57552186-1/developer-reaffirms-plan-to-finish-worlds-tallest-building-in-90-days/

    One can only shudder at the speed and type of construction been used here, I'd say the safety records will be well buried :confused:


    Wonder if its plane proof???:pac:


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  • #31
    deathrider
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,699 ✭✭✭deathrider


    Looks like that's going to escalate quickly.


  • #32
    smellslikeshoes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,354 ✭✭✭smellslikeshoes


    There really is a horrible 1980s look about it. I understand that's it's built that way to make construction as cheap and fast as possible but I have to wonder will the China of 20 years look on it as an embarrassment.


  • #33
    Pottler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,073 ✭✭✭Pottler


    smellslikeshoes wrote: »
    There really is a horrible 1980s look about it. I understand that's it's built that way to make construction as cheap and fast as possible but I have to wonder will the China of 20 years look on it as an embarrassment.
    I don't think China's big on embarassment. If they suddenly become that way, they might have bigger things to be embarrassed about, executions and stuff. Only a certain type of Chinese will be going, "Oh gosh, what terrible dull buildings we built". Bord Planala types.


  • #34
    speedboatchase
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    It's so ugly and pedestrian though, especially in comparison to the current tallest building, the Burj Khalifa. I guess creative expression and eye-catching design has never been part of the Chinese outlook in recent years, instead it's all about pushing the largest amount of people or largest amounts of cash at a project and ensuring it gets done.


  • #35
    intellectual dosser
    Registered Users Posts: 1,837 ✭✭✭intellectual dosser


    speedboatchase wrote: »
    It's so ugly and pedestrian though, especially in comparison to the current tallest building, the Burj Khalifa. I guess creative expression and eye-catching design has never been part of the Chinese outlook in recent years, instead it's all about pushing the largest amount of people or largest amounts of cash at a project and ensuring it gets done.

    I dont think thats fair. Looking at recent years I think the most globally notable buildings the Chinese have constructed would have to be the ones associated with the Olympics. The Birds Nest and the Cube hardly lack creative expression.

    CCTV building in Beijing is also pretty cool -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Central_Television_Headquarters

    I'm not sure who you're comparing them to? The world are breathing down heavy on China for human rights and the quality of living, I don't think they're wrong to be sprouting up buildings as quick as they can to better house their population or serve their economic needs.


  • #36
    [Deleted User]
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    I don't think it looks that bad at all.


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  • #37
    speedboatchase
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    intellectual dosser wrote: »
    I dont think thats fair. Looking at recent years I think the most globally notable buildings the Chinese have constructed would have to be the ones associated with the Olympics. The Birds Nest and the Cube hardly lack creative expression.

    CCTV building in Beijing is also pretty cool -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Central_Television_Headquarters

    I'm not sure who you're comparing them to? The world are breathing down heavy on China for human rights and the quality of living, I don't think they're wrong to be sprouting up buildings as quick as they can to better house their population or serve their economic needs.

    I'm just saying that there's obviously a correlation between the need to get that building completed in 90 days and its absolutely dull LEGO block-style design.

    As for the Birds Nest, CCTV building and the Cube, all were designed by architect firms overseas (admittedly, the Burj Khalifa was too). This wasn't, which is why its built for necessity rather than actual creative expression, which seems to be the overall thinking towards most projects in China.


  • #38
    Capt'n Midnight
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    My name is URL wrote: »
    They're not

    http://gizmodo.com/5304233/entire-new-13+story-building-tips-over-in-shanghai/gallery/1
    thing that always amazes me is that building stayed intact


  • #39
    RobbieTheRobber
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    mfceiling wrote: »
    Wrong.........someone said they are having a huge election in 90 days...

    election communist China :confused:

    What sort of Election might they need to have in a communist country then?
    :D

    Anyway the Communist party have already this year had their once in a decade party meeting which choose the new president and standing committees etc.


  • #40
    Funglegunk
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    1ZRed wrote: »
    What an ugly and dull building. By all means build bigger but make something that stands out and is unique. Something memorable and fitting of the world's tallest title, not some scaled up skyscraper from the early 1900s.

    Agreed, a very ugly building. Just an enlarged version of these cookie-cutter designs that make Chinese cities difficult to tell apart.


  • #41
    RobbieTheRobber
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,844 ✭✭✭RobbieTheRobber


    Pottler wrote: »
    I don't think China's big on embarassment. If they suddenly become that way, they might have bigger things to be embarrassed about, executions and stuff. Only a certain type of Chinese will be going, "Oh gosh, what terrible dull buildings we built". Bord Planala types.

    They dont dwell on the past so in 20 years if its an embarrasment the building will just be destroyed!


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  • #42
    ScumLord
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    donmeister wrote: »
    UNDERESTIMATE THE CHINESE AT YOUR PERIL. Good day.
    Having some experience with Chinese manufacturing I'd say it's more like overestimate the Chinese at your peril, or expect the thing to work for more than a week at your peril.. Basically I'm saying the stuff they make breaks really quickly so I'm not to worried.


  • #43
    RobbieTheRobber
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    ScumLord wrote: »
    Having some experience with Chinese manufacturing I'd say it's more like overestimate the Chinese at your peril, or expect the thing to work for more than a week at your peril.. Basically I'm saying the stuff they make breaks really quickly so I'm not to worried.

    Stop going to the 1 euro shop!


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