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Yes, now I look more closely it could be that or another odd-shaped building.
Seeing as you seem quite interested here's another one they're building in Shenzen (another huge city). Ping An Finance Centre, this one is going to be even taller than the Shanghai tower, this picture shows it as it is now, not quite a third of the way up.
http://i.imgur.com/3TlvO1E.jpg
I like to watch the construction of these huge buildings on skyscrapercity, when they were doing the foundations for this one they dug the massive holes for the concrete piles out by hand using wheelbarrows to cart the dirt to one side,
it was amazing to watch considering how high tech the rest of the construction process is.
Seeing as you seem quite interested here's another one they're building in Shenzen (another huge city). Ping An Finance Centre, this one is going to be even taller than the Shanghai tower, this picture shows it as it is now, not quite a third of the way up.
http://i.imgur.com/3TlvO1E.jpg
I like to watch the construction of these huge buildings on skyscrapercity, when they were doing the foundations for this one they dug the massive holes for the concrete piles out by hand using wheelbarrows to cart the dirt to one side,
They're impressive pieces of work. And that's not quite a third of the height!
I guess their labour costs are cheap, and they want people to be employed, so the parts that can be done with "mandraulics" get done that way. Used to be the same in this country. I remember seeing tower blocks go up in the early 60s in the Midlands. (and they seemed big to us then!) They had a tower crane to put the things up, but most of the groundworks were done with blokes with picks and shovels.
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EddieM
Why are china building loads of skyscrapers? it's not as if they lack space, and they (the skyscrapers) are dead ugly.
That's a matter of opinion, Dubai takes the biscuit for ugly skyscrapers I reckon.
I think the Chinese are in the middle of a mad rush to urbanise, millions and millions of people are leaving the countryside to settle in the cities which are all growing at an enormous rate.
The infrastructure they're building and the rate they're doing it at is incredible, there are lots of cities that no one has even heard of with populations of millions of people. It's all about trying to become the next global superpower I think, and raising as many people as they can out of dire poverty. Whether or not they can keep it going is another matter.
I think the Chinese are in the middle of a mad rush to urbanise, millions and millions of people are leaving the countryside to settle in the cities which are all growing at an enormous rate.
The infrastructure they're building and the rate they're doing it at is incredible, there are lots of cities that no one has even heard of with populations of millions of people. It's all about trying to become the next global superpower I think, and raising as many people as they can out of dire poverty. Whether or not they can keep it going is another matter.
I believe they can. They can undercut everybody else when it comes to producing all sorts of items. Moreover, they are no longer all cheap and nasty as their reputation suggests. They are limiting, or possibly even reducing (?) their population by controlling childbirth.
No 'super power' lasts for ever - the Roman Empire and the British Empire, for example, both fell and I believe that the US will eventually meet the same fate. The next super power will be China.
You heard it here first!
It's well known that sometime in the next 20 or 30 years China will surpass the USA to become the worlds largest economy.
Like I've said before on here, when that happens it will be Mr Sooey to all you cnts.
AIUI there are two reasons for building tall buildings.
The first is because in some places "network affects" drive up the value of property in certain areas to levels that justify building expensive tall buildings.
The second is because some entity (possiblly an individual, possiblly a corporation, possiblly a government) wants to show off their wealth.
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longdogs
It's a GIF image which suggests it could have been photo shopped. Created on 29th Aug 2013, modified on 29th August 2013
Today is the 29th August 2013, I think that comes up whenever you click on properties for most images. Tomorrow it will probably say 30 August 2013.
Any image could have been photoshopped.
Any image could have been photoshopped.
It's a GIF image which suggests it could have been photo shopped. Created on 29th Aug 2013, modified on 29th August 2013
They've used gif, because that format allows simple animations which will display in a web browser. There's no Exif data in the file as far as I can see, at a guess you're seeing today's date because you've saved the file to your machine, and that's the creation date you're seeing.
Seeing as you seem quite interested here's another one they're building in Shenzen (another huge city). Ping An Finance Centre, this one is going to be even taller than the Shanghai tower, this picture shows it as it is now, not quite a third of the way up.
http://i.imgur.com/3TlvO1E.jpg
I like to watch the construction of these huge buildings on skyscrapercity, when they were doing the foundations for this one they dug the massive holes for the concrete piles out by hand using wheelbarrows to cart the dirt to one side,
They're impressive pieces of work. And that's not quite a third of the height!
I guess their labour costs are cheap, and they want people to be employed, so the parts that can be done with "mandraulics" get done that way. Used to be the same in this country. I remember seeing tower blocks go up in the early 60s in the Midlands. (and they seemed big to us then!) They had a tower crane to put the things up, but most of the groundworks were done with blokes with picks and shovels.
I think in this case they dug the piles by hand because they wanted serrated edges on them to create more friction with the surrounding earth. You can't do that with a pile drilling machine, also the sheer size of them was probably too big for machine drilling.
In these pictures you can see the buckets and wheel barrows they used to cart the dirt out while digging by hand, and how deep they went, there's about 20 of these piles plus some smaller ones to support the weight of the building.
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