Posted on 06/09/2020 5:39:20 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Designed by Moshe Safdie, the mastermind behind Singapore's awe-inspiring Changi Jewel, the 250-meter-tall sky bridge is the highest of its kind.
Dubbed a horizontal skyscraper, it stretches 350 meters across four of the eight skyscrapers that make up Raffles City Chongqing, a multi-use riverside complex in the southwest China megacity. Aerial walkways also connect it to two more skyscrapers.
The Exploration Deck, spanning over 1,500 square meters, is more than just a viewing platform.
Raffles City Chongqing teamed up with National Geographic to create an exploration-themed exhibition.
At the end of the tour, visitors will arrive at an indoor park and an open-air glass-bottom viewing deck that offers panoramic views of the fast-developing Chinese city and the Yangtze River.
Yet to be opened, the rest of The Crystal sky bridge will be home to The Private Club, a members-only clubhouse, as well as The Sky Garden, a food and beverage destination.
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Must be nice to live in a country without racial strife.
You couldn’t pay me to live in Red China.
Otherwise known as one of the skyscrapers built by the customers of Walmart.
China....., you didn’t build dat!
Then along came Godzilla...
How many cameras taking upskirt photos?
Oh hell no. Just no
No thank you! To my engineer/ architect friends, just because you can build something doesn’t always mean you should.
Not in a gagillion years.
Eff no!
Has a real game-of-chance ring to it.
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.
Do not tempt the gods.
I was thinking that a large earthquake might prove challenging to the design.
Yeah. No.
Yeah, earthquakes, too.
What could go wrong?
Maggie Hiufu Wong
Or, what could go Wong?
Designed by Moshe Safdie
So it passed the Safdie inspection?
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