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Old 11-26-2012, 12:18 PM
 
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I'd like to see them try doing that here...Good Luck...

Sky City: China’s tower will be the world’s tallest
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Old 11-26-2012, 12:31 PM
 
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Will probably be using substandard materials like the rest of their crap.
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Old 11-26-2012, 12:33 PM
 
Location: Londonderry, NH
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Default tall towers made with junk

I wish them good luck but earthquake assisted gravity is the world's harshest building inspector.
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Old 11-26-2012, 12:38 PM
 
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It will be built by the same folks who constructed this 30 story tall hotel in fifteen (15) days.

Amazing Timelapse of 30-Story Building Constructed In Only 360 Hours

Amazing what can be done when people work together.
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Old 11-26-2012, 12:48 PM
 
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Well, that's pretty neat, but I certainly won't be the first to go up to the observation deck of that thing.
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Old 11-26-2012, 12:52 PM
 
Location: Perpetuality On Wheels
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This is a concept so far as I know, the location itself is in doubt. China news always has extra juicy in it.
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Old 11-26-2012, 12:54 PM
 
Location: Metro-Detroit area
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I'd like to see them try doing that here...Good Luck...

Sky City: China’s tower will be the world’s tallest
China’s infrastructure is failing owing to sub-standard materials, corruption, and lax regulation
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Shoddy infrastructure in China has put people in danger time and time again; many of the infrastructure issues in China stem from the government’s focus on quantity over quality, as well as making sure that as many people are employed as possible for a project, rather than using the latest construction technology; sub-standard materials, corruption, and lax regulation only exacerbate the problem

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According to China’s state-run media, 345 tons of inferior quality steel was found at the construction site for an affordable housing project in south China’s Wenchang, Hainan Province. The steel was about to be used for the project and could have compromised the safety of the housing project.
They knew the product was unqualified,” Liu Bingcheng, who does quality inspections, said. But “they still allowed the substandard product to sell in the market.”
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Old 11-26-2012, 01:30 PM
 
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the first word that comes to mind is 'monstrosity.'

at 220 stories this thing will be twice as tall as the old World Trade Center buildings.
if you stacked the Twin Towers on top of each other, that's how high this thing will be if it gets built.

however not being a fan of very tall buildings in general I think the word 'monstrosity' could be used to describe any skyscraper.
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Old 11-26-2012, 01:34 PM
 
Location: Long Island
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Will probably be using substandard materials like the rest of their crap.
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I wish them good luck but earthquake assisted gravity is the world's harshest building inspector.
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Well, that's pretty neat, but I certainly won't be the first to go up to the observation deck of that thing.

hmm the empire state building was built in a year
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Old 11-26-2012, 01:38 PM
 
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Ain't gonna happen. They might eventually slap this thing together but it won't be done in 90 days, that is just wishful thinking.
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