China to build world's tallest building - in just 90 days

[amused]

There are 179,000 people moving into urban areas every week.

That's a huge influx and is what drives a real estate expansion engine anywhere. It would be more accurate to say they will 'erect' the building on 90 days, since it is being 'built' off-site in components first. It's a shame that the developers had to have the tallest instead of the most livable.

[cronus]

There are 179,000 people moving into urban areas every week.

That's a huge influx and is what drives a real estate expansion engine anywhere. It would be more accurate to say they will 'erect' the building on 90 days, since it is being 'built' off-site in components first. It's a shame that the developers had to have the tallest instead of the most livable.

Cities in space or extinction is the only game in town.

[Jason]

That record breaker, it's supposed to remain standing how long?

Using Ramen, until the first rainfall.

[Xamonas Chegwé]

Typical Chinese skyscraper - 90 days later you want another one!

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Just for fun, go to Google Earth and check out the area between Beijing and Shanghai, ~650 miles, 1,000 km.

[Warren Dew]

So they are building something eight times taller than anything they have ever built before? Not sure that is such a good idea

Oh well, ironic how the Chinese Communists have Western capitalists to thank for the technology and patents that took them out of the seventeenth century.

They're CINOs - communists in name only. The construction techniques just apply mass production to buildings, something that the U.S. never really got around to.