Welcome back to Funday Friday, everybody. Or should I say, for this month, FunMay Friday?
Some buildings take years on end to plan, fund, construct finish and open. But this construction company did the constructing part...in 19 DAYS.
Chinese construction company The Broad Sustainable Building Co. has built what has claimed to be the fastest building in the world: the 57-story rectangular glass-and-steel Mini Sky City in China's Hunan provincial capital of Changsha. It has 19 atriums, 800 apartments and office space for 4,000 people. It's also safe and can withstand earthquakes.
Company engineer Chen Xiangqian had this to say on the building process, “With the traditional method, they have to build a skyscraper brick by brick, but with our method, we just need to assemble the blocks”. Meaning instead of the conventional method of constructing the building from scratch, the company built the place in pieces, and then put them together later like LEGOs. The floor plan was three floors a day during the winter, finally reaching the last story on Day 19.
The original plan was to reach 92 stories, but had to be stopped and tinkered with for a year to 57 as reaching so would compromise the height restriction by the city's airport.
The building story has become a worldwide sensation, with a time-lapse video of the construction going viral on YouTube. Here it is; it's freaking amazing.
See that?! It just blows your mind.
The Broad Sustainable has a 220-floor building as its next project. It's also under the Sky City name and will be erected in (as they hope) three months. They are currently awaiting approval from the city. Good luck to them for the go-ahead and congrats to them for their amazing talent, hard work, ingenuity and success.
Call this another reason China's kicking our ass.
Big thanks to the New York Post for the article.
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