China World Trade Center Tower : Beijing tallest skyscraper

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Guiyang, capital of Guizhou, China's poorest province.

 

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More on Beijing Traffic

 

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Why do you call it World Trade Center? youhope it to be impacted by a plane?

 

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Why do you call it World Trade Center? youhope it to be impacted by a plane?

'Beijing World Trade Center 3' is the third building of a planned series of high-rises in Beijing CBD, construction on the first building (Beijing World Trade Center 1) began at 1985, long before 2001.

I think they're planning a new 400m+ supertall in Beijing CBD. I'm still not happy about having supertalls in Beijing, let's hope that's going to be the last one.

 

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If its big, it has to be Chinese.

 

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If its big, it has to be Chinese.

You pervert

 

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You pervert

Infrastructure- there made it clear

 

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Beijing's last nail house (i.e. house whose owner refuse to sell during redevelopment of the area).

 

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Nice pics, thanks for sharing.

 

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'Beijing World Trade Center 3' is the third building of a planned series of high-rises in Beijing CBD, construction on the first building (Beijing World Trade Center 1) began at 1985, long before 2001.

I think they're planning a new 400m+ supertall in Beijing CBD. I'm still not happy about having supertalls in Beijing, let's hope that's going to be the last one.

Isn't there an over capacity in terms of commercial real-estate in Beijing? I've read something to the effect that many of these developed office buildings are unoccupied and demand for them is low.

Beijing's last nail house (i.e. house whose owner refuse to sell during redevelopment of the area).

Those are some shrewd folks in those houses. They are sitting on an steadily appreciating asset, the longer they keep it the more it's going to be worth.

 

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Isn't there an over capacity in terms of commercial real-estate in Beijing? I've read something to the effect that many of these developed office buildings are unoccupied and demand for them is low.

That was the case a year ago but occupation rates of Beijing's office buildings are up to 80%+ now and almost all commercial buildings are having their lease rates hiked in 2010.

So some planners may think unless more office buildings are built there will be a shortage few years down the road.

I personally feel Beijing need to scale down, the average time a Beijing resident spend on commuting to work is 104 minutes a day, sure way to make people depressed.

But since Beijing economy is nearly 80% services and contrary to popular myth the service industry is actually more labor intensive than manufacturing, so in all likelihood Beijing population will continue to grow and more office building will continue to be built.

Anyway in case people think I'm being too negative about Beijing's new buildings, there's some pictures even I have no choice but to like.

Beijing CBD

And some of Beijing's new business areas have such a sparkling quality that one can easily mistake real life photos for computer renderings

 

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nice pictures

 

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That was the case a year ago but occupation rates of Beijing's office buildings are up to 80%+ now and almost all commercial buildings are having their lease rates hiked in 2010.

So some planners may think unless more office buildings are built there will be a shortage few years down the road.

I personally feel Beijing need to scale down, the average time a Beijing resident spend on commuting to work is 104 minutes a day, sure way to make people depressed.

But since Beijing economy is nearly 80% services and contrary to popular myth the service industry is actually more labor intensive than manufacturing, so in all likelihood Beijing population will continue to grow and more office building will continue to be built.

Anyway in case people think I'm being too negative about Beijing's new buildings, there's some pictures even I have no choice but to like.
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If not up where? Lateral sprawl is hardly better. The most energy efficient and commuter friends cities in the world are places like Hongkong and Tokyo where they got the high construct and public transport down to an art.

 

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If not up where? Lateral sprawl is hardly better. The most energy efficient and commuter friends cities in the world are places like Hongkong and Tokyo where they got the high construct and public transport down to an art.

It's not just about efficiency but also character, as a long-time Beijing resident I have no desire for my city to be like Hong Kong or Tokyo. Beijing always has been a horizontal rather than a vertical city.

What Beijing should do is to make development more even spread, right now most people work in Central, Eastern or Northern Beijing. Southern and Western part of Beijing has a lot of residence area but little business, getting people to work near their home is important.

Also Beijing should encourage people to work from home, but that probably won't be easy since what a lot of government employees do everyday is spending one hour driving their Audis to workplace, sit there drink tea and read newspapers for 8 hours then drive home. They probably won't know what to do if they're allowed to work from home.

 

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It's not just about efficiency but also character, as a long-time Beijing resident I have no desire for my city to be like Hong Kong or Tokyo. Beijing always has been a horizontal rather than a vertical city.

What Beijing should do is to make development more even spread, right now most people work in Central, Eastern or Northern Beijing. Southern and Western part of Beijing has a lot of residence area but little business, getting people to work near their home is important.

Also Beijing should encourage people to work from home, but that probably won't be easy since what a lot of government employees do everyday is spending one hour driving their Audis to workplace, sit there drink tea and read newspapers for 8 hours then drive home. They probably won't know what to do if they're allowed to work from home.

I guess familiarity breeds contempt. You really seem to have it out for government people. Fair enough I suppose since its your tax money. On a different note, I lived in Haidian district, north west I guess and I'm not really sure I want to corrupt the university feels of the district with large office buildings either.

As for your suggestions, its just not possible for large amounts of people to work at home, especially as you say many people work in the service industry. Business districts occurs in most cities for a reason (even here in Toronto). There are usually first a critical mass of business and other businesses grow up near them because of convenience and timing saving, there's little chance that you can force people to go across town to for different related businesses (and it would add to the congestion)

And your idea of character may differ from other people's and who's to say which is more important.