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The Largest Building Ever Constructed Has Opened in China

Posted July 08, 2013 10:54 AM

From Gizmodo:

At what point does a building become a city? At 1.7 million square meters, the New Century Global Center lands somewhere between the two. New Century, which has been under construction since spring of 2012 (which isn't long, for a building of this size), opened officially on July 1. The 18-story, glass-and-steel frame structure sits above a new subway station in Chengdu, a Sichuan province city of more than 14 million and one of China's fastest-growing megalopolises.

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07/09/2013 10:53 PM

I'd like to see some details of the basic structural system and how it is intended to resist seismic events, which have been rather substantial in some parts of China...

More specifically, if an 18 story building that voluminous, suddenly experiences a 7.0 Richter Scale type of load, how do they plan to dampen the impact of that much moving structure?...

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07/12/2013 5:00 PM

The impact will be dampened when the structure hits the ground...

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