China plans to build a massive 120 million-square-foot city — from scratch
Options
Young_Chitlin
Members Posts: 23,852 ✭✭✭✭✭
By: George Dvorsky
The Chinese government has approved the final design for a massive planned city scheduled for construction along the rim of a 3.85 kilometer (2.4 mile) lake. Upon completion, Meixi Lake City will provide home to over 180,000 inhabitants and occupy a space that's 120 million square feet in size.
The design, which was developed by international architecture firm Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF), will provide residents with neighborhoods for living, recreation, working, culture, and entertainment.
According to KPF, their design for the Meixi Lake master plan "seeks to establish a paradigm of man living in balance with nature."
They write: "A densely concentrated urban plan, packed with a full variety of functions and building types, is integrated with mountains, lakes, parks and canals, resulting in an environment which promotes both health and prosperity."
"As a new center within the larger metropolitan area of Changsha, Meixi proposes to offer a new model for the future of the Chinese city."
"Advanced environmental engineering, pedestrian planning, cluster zoning, and garden integration, are all made part of a holistic strategy of design in this healthy city."
Of course, we'd be remiss not to mention that Brasilia, the capital city of Brazil, was also a planned city.
Comments
-
-
-
damn
-
I will move there when it is complete
-
MikeydaGawd wrote: »I will move there when it is complete
By the time it's complete half of us on the IC with be dead!!!
-
nice
also this
Masdar City
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Masdar City
مدينة مصدر
— Walled city —
Rendering of the future Masdar City from the air
Masdar City
Location of Masdar in the UAE
Coordinates: 24°25′45″N 54°37′6″ECoordinates: 24°25′45″N 54°37′6″E
Country United Arab Emirates
Emirate Abu Dhabi
Initiated 2006
Government
• Chairman Ahmed Ali Al Sayegh
• CEO Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber
Area
• Total 6 km2 (2 sq mi)
Time zone Arabian Standard Time (UTC+04)
Website www.masdarcity.ae
Masdar City (Arabic: مدينة مصدر, Madīnat Maṣdar, literally Source City[1]) is a project in Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates. Its core is a planned city, which is being built by the Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company, a subsidiary of Mubadala Development Company, with the majority of seed capital provided by the government of Abu Dhabi.[2][3] Designed by the British architectural firm Foster and Partners, the city will rely entirely on solar energy and other renewable energy sources, with a sustainable, zero-carbon, zero-waste ecology and will be a car free city. The city is being constructed 17 kilometres (11 mi) east-south-east of the city of Abu Dhabi, beside Abu Dhabi International Airport.
Masdar City will host the headquarters of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA).[4][5] The city is designed to be a hub for cleantech companies. Its first tenant is the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, which has been operating in the city since it moved into its campus in September 2010.[6][7][8] The city as a whole was originally intended to be completed by 2016 but that date has now been pushed back to 2025.[9]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masdar_City -
it will be finished by next week
-
Look how quickly China built up many of their current cities. These dudes are known for slapping ? together in days. With the billions of cheap laborers (plenty of engineers) they have, i can see it being completed in 10 years.
They built this Hotel in 6 days
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E76uJi744Do
Will it be structurally sound is the question.
-
Eh~ denmark>
-
The streets is wacthin
-
can u imagine just chilling in your spot and just feel the building leaning back like that pic ? would have a ? pet to go into a building
-
dalyricalbandit wrote: »can u imagine just chilling in your spot and just feel the building leaning back like that pic ? would have a ? pet to go into a building
-
i have been to china....and guess what...they have the manpower to build it and the cheap labor to do it fast. I bet it will be up in a matter of a few years.
I think you guys under estimate how china builds...
now the problem is...who is going to live in this city and who can afford to and how will they control transportation.
you can but you will watched since you are a foreigner. also you right will eventually be taken away an it will be hard for you to find work.MikeydaGawd wrote: »I will move there when it is complete
so good luck
-
think of the amount of pollution as a result of this
-
China gives 0 ? about pollution
-
Young_Chitlin wrote: »China gives 0 ? about pollution
they really dont....a ? could hardly breath in biejing
-
looks amazing.
-
Nevermind, made a thread about it instead.
-
dalyricalbandit wrote: »can u imagine just chilling in your spot and just feel the building leaning back like that pic ? would have a ? pet to go into a building
I can imagine looking for some clean boxers. -
I see they incorporated that feng shui in their designs
-
Will it be Gangnam style?
-
didn't they already do this in inner Mongolia ? isnt that city a ghost town still?
-
Yeah, it will be up and running in 5 years and finished in 10 years. Those japanese guy builders only took a week what would have taken 4 weeks in america. The labor force is powerful over there and they have enough people to do it as well.
-
Ajackson17 wrote: »Yeah, it will be up and running in 5 years and finished in 10 years. Those japanese guy builders only took a week what would have taken 4 weeks in america. The labor force is powerful over there and they have enough people to do it as well.
the labor force is strong but grossly underpaid....trust me its just a matter of time.
-
China can do it in record time, that country and their economy is/was built on the bodies of their people lol
