Chinese company builds a 350ft tall artificial waterfall on the outside of a SKYSCRAPER

Daily Mirror ^ | July 23, 2018 | Kelsey Cheng

[plain talk]

Residents in Guiyang city, south-west China, thought they were imagining things when they saw a massive waterfall cascading out of a high-rise building in the middle of the street.

In fact, the 108-metre-tall (350ft) fall is indeed a part of the towering Liebian Building, located at a public plaza in the city's central business district.

A large tank is installed at the foot of the 121-meter-tall (397ft) skyscraper, where four 185-kilowatt pumps would lift the water to the top of the fall.

[Da Coyote]

So, roughly 800 kilowatts of power - full time - for what is essentially a display.
Powered no doubt by coal generated electricity.
Of course, China doesn’t count for CO2, only the big bad USA.
And progressives wonder why there is death in their future when they try to enact their silly pseudo-science idiocy on us.

[Keyhopper]

I live in hollywood, where are you?

[piasa]

Up by Spring Hill in Hernando County

[T-Bone Texan]

It serves to keep the building moist, and everyone knows moisture is the key to wetness, or something.

[plain talk]

As FYI it’s not full time. They say they only run it on special occasions.

[ridesthemiles]

TOO bulky.

Easy to pitch a handful of laundry “PODS’ into the water.

[TexasM1A]

I wonder if it is another empty building in China..

[Jed Eckert]

Designed, engineered, built and maintained in China. What could possibly go wrong.

[Moltke]

Yeah, well, if you’re going to have a 350 ft waterfall, a SKYSCRAPER is much more suited than a bungalow. Not sure why the headline shouts SKYSCRAPER, but then, it is the Daily Mail...

[GOPJ]

It’s also nice that water doesn’t have limestone or minerals in it... if it did that could be hard on windows...

[GOPJ]

Looks like the architect had more connections and power than the structural engineer...

[Jack Hammer]

Don’t stand underneath...

[V K Lee]

Water falling from that height might be a life-threatening circumstance. Who would be idiotic enough to stand beneath Niagara Falls? A brisk shower, it is NOT.

BTW, though not a multi story hotel, a city not far from us has a restaurant with slanted, angled windows. You can sit in the place and watch the falls cascade down the window for a perfectly pleasant experience with some safety; it is only a one level building.

Frank Lloyd Wright has involuntarily shown us that water and buildings are not companions. His famous “Falling Water” house, it has been heard, has proven this to be true.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Third and fourth tier Chinese cities have poor building standards. This beauty is a good example. It may never be occupied.

[poconopundit]

Frank Lloyd Wright. Your memory is excellent. An avant-garde architect who understood practical design.

You're right, from a purely safety point of view this Chinese building is a monstrosity. Architects in the Ming dynasty surely had more common sense.

The Japanese are very innovative architects. But then again, they had to be. The country is very mountainous and the natural beauty comes from that. But just about every river that passes through a city in Japan has to be lined with concrete walls because the typhoon rains are deadly with lots of mudslides.

America is much flatter terrain. So as I like to say: America is a nation of lawyers. Japan is a nation of engineers.

Here's a view form the look out that guards the harbor of Sasebo, Nagasaki prefecture, in Japan. It's where I lived for three years and met my wife.

[V K Lee]

Not that all is remembered correctly.

What was thought to be Falling Waters was seen for the first time in the movie “A Summer Place” (1959)
LOL, for years the film was remembered with scenes from a house with a waterfall.

Then, the fact that the scenes used another FLW house, pretending it was on the East Coast rather than West.
http://franklloydwrightsites.com/california/walker/walker_house.html.

It is mind blowing how the editors can splice together different scenes to make a movie. Working in Dallas in offices located at the World Trade Center, several films were made right before our eyes. Watched the filming of “Logan’s Run” with the anticipation of seeing the final result and wonder if it would be recognizable. (BTW, didn’t resemble the ‘real thing’ AT ALL!)

[poconopundit]

My movie education is not as vast as yours VK. Sounds like Logan’s Run is a must see?

[V K Lee]

So So. The book was much better.
The best scene in the movie (IMHO) was when M. York and J. Agutter met Peter Ustinov outside the complex, on the countryside. The first human they’d ever seen with grey hair and wrinkles.

J. Agutter - what ever became of her after this film?
M. York - seemed a bit out of character. He was much better in the Musketeer movies as D’Artagnan

[poconopundit]

OK, interesting. Thanks.

[HonkyTonkMan]

thought headline read 350 ft “water SLIDE”!