Glass-bottom deck opens atop China's 'horizontal skyscraper'

cnn ^ | 9th June 2020 | Maggie Hiufu Wong

[BenLurkin]

[BenLurkin]

The Crystal, the sky bridge connecting four of the eight skyscrapers in the complex, features a glass-bottom viewing deck.
CapitaLand Raffles City Chongqing

[dfwgator]

Must be nice to live in a country without racial strife.

[BenLurkin]

You couldn’t pay me to live in Red China.

[Zuriel]

Otherwise known as one of the skyscrapers built by the customers of Walmart.

China....., you didn’t build dat!

[Mr. N. Wolfe]

Then along came Godzilla...

[Veggie Todd]

How many cameras taking upskirt photos?

[Mom MD]

Oh hell no. Just no

[lee martell]

No thank you! To my engineer/ architect friends, just because you can build something doesn’t always mean you should.

[freedumb2003]

Not in a gagillion years.

[colorado tanker]

Eff no!

[Ezekiel]

Raffles City Chongqing

Has a real game-of-chance ring to it.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Tall buildings sway a LOT in winds. I cannot see all of them swaying synchronously. There have to be some huge stresses on those connecting bridges - axial, bending moments, torsion.

You have to hand it to them, that’s some clever design work — IF it stays up.

[Terry L Smith]

Do not tempt the gods.

[BenLurkin]

I was thinking that a large earthquake might prove challenging to the design.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Yeah. No.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Yeah, earthquakes, too.

[Larry Lucido]

What could go wrong?

[Larry Lucido]

Maggie Hiufu Wong

Or, what could go Wong?

[Larry Lucido]

Designed by Moshe Safdie

So it passed the Safdie inspection?