China’s epic horizontal skyscraper The Crystal will be tallest in the world and opens soon

[beijingwalker]

China’s epic horizontal skyscraper The Crystal will be tallest in the world and opens soon
CHINA will soon be home to a whopping horizontal skyscraper. The quirky piece of architecture, known as The Crystal, will be the highest sky bridge in the world when it opens later this year, as part of a new district in Chongqing City.
By BETH ALLCOCK
PUBLISHED: 20:12, Fri, Mar 1, 2019 | UPDATED: 20:41, Fri, Mar 1, 2019

Travellers to China will soon be able to step inside a stunning horizontal skyscraper hailed an “engineering marvel”. The eye-catching building, dubbed The Crystal, is part of the long-awaited Raffles City Chongqing project in Chongqing City. It is designed into a connecting skybridge amid the eight other skyscraper towers and will be the highest of its kind in the world. The jaw-dropping structure will span across the top of four skyscraper buildings, rising to 60ft tall and 820 feet in the air.

https://www.express.co.uk/travel/ar...est-skyscraper-Raffles-City-Chongqing-project

 

[beijingwalker]

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Moshe Safdie

https://archinect.com/news/article/...ning-sky-bridge-reaches-structural-completion

Moshe Safdie's Chongqing megadevelopment—featuring the world's highest, tower-spanning sky bridge—reaches structural completion

It has been exactly one year since the enormous eight-tower Raffles City Chongqing development announced that it set the world record for the highest sky bridge linking the most number of towers when it successfully hoisted the three middle segments of the ensemble's signature '9th horizontal skyscraper' into place.

Like a Marina Bay Sands on steroids, 'The Crystal' sky bridge—also designed by Safdie Architects—measures 300 meters in length, 32.5 meters in width, 26.5 meters in height, and links six of the eight skyscrapers 250 meters high up in the Chongqing sky.



The two 350-meter high supertall skyscrapers are now Chongqing’s tallest buildings and among the tallest towers in China. Image: CapitaLand.
"Upon Raffles City Chongqing’s structural completion, we are now focusing on the interior fit-out works, including transplanting trees to enliven The Crystal sky bridge, which will feature the tallest observation deck across Western China," commented CapitaLand President, Lucas Loh, the development firm behind the ambitious 1.12-million-square-meter endeavor in China's third largest city with a population of over 25 million.

https://www.safdiearchitects.com/projects/raffles-city-chongqing
Collaborators
Executive Architect: P&T Group International Ltd (Palmer and Turner) (Hong Kong)
Structural Engineer: Arup (UK)
MEP Engineer: Parsons Brinckerhoff (US)
Façade Engineer: ALT (Taiwan)
Quantity Surveyor: Rider Levett Bucknall (UK)

 

[Mista]

1:02 is taken from Singapore and CapitaLand is a Singaporean company.

 

[opruh]

It's great that the singaporean company will have their best skyscraper built in China, not in singapore.

 

[Mista]

It's great that the singaporean company will have their best skyscraper built in China, not in singapore.

Of course, property prices have greater appreciation in China.

 

[opruh]

Of course, property prices have greater appreciation in China.

Yes, China's economy is the best in the world.

 

[Mista]

And yeah, height restrictions.

Yes, China's economy is the best in the world.

Yes. The higher the property prices in China, the better the returns for our SWFs. Let's hope China's property prices make new records.