Sky City

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Sky City
Basic data
Place: Changsha
Status : planned
Architectural style : Modern
Technical specifications
Height : 838 m
Floors : 220

Sky City (Chinese: 天空 城市) is a planned skyscraper to be built in the Chinese city of Changsha , Hunan Province . The constructions are to be handled by Broad Group . The building is to reach a height of 838 meters with 220 floors and provide a usable area of ​​1 million m². It would then be 10 meters higher than the Burj Khalifa and thus the second tallest building in the world after the Jeddah Tower , which is currently under construction .

Thanks to a special working method, the building should be completed within 210 days. A shopping center is planned on the ground floor.

The building was originally supposed to be completed by May 2013, the date has been postponed several times. Construction had not started until November 2016.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. http://travel.cnn.com/shanghai/life/sky-city-chinese-company-proposes-worlds-tallest-building-098182
  2. Kingdom Tower: 1007 meters - this skyscraper breaks all records. In: welt.de. Retrieved January 29, 2017 .
  3. ^ A b Morgana Matus: World's Tallest Skyscraper to Be Built in 210 Days Instead of 90 as Originally Planned. In: inhabitat.com , October 17, 2012, accessed November 22, 2012
  4. Galileo of June 21, 2012
  5. ^ One Building, One City: World's tallest prefab, Sky City, is breaking ground in June. In: treehugger.com. May 14, 2013, accessed May 25, 2013 .
  6. ↑ The world's tallest tower in China will be ready by March 2014. In: emirates247.com. June 17, 2013, accessed July 12, 2013 .
  7. ^ Brian Wang: Three major vertical farming proposals with Sky City being likely to be built first. (No longer available online.) In: nextbigfuture.com. October 3, 2013, archived from the original on October 4, 2013 ; accessed on October 4, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / nextbigfuture.com
  8. Tom Hancock: The Tower of Changsha: Tallest house in the world planned in China. In: n24.de. January 24, 2014, accessed March 29, 2014 .
  9. Changgui Xie: Sky City halted for more than 2 years, villagers place wire cages in foundation pits to raise fish (天空 城市 停摆 2 年 村民 在 大楼 基坑 中 放 网箱养鱼). In: Southern.com. July 14, 2015, accessed July 14, 2015 .

Coordinates: 28 ° 19 ′ 14 ″  N , 112 ° 53 ′ 51 ″  E