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1 posted on 06/09/2020 5:39:20 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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The Crystal, the sky bridge connecting four of the eight skyscrapers in the complex, features a glass-bottom viewing deck.
CapitaLand Raffles City Chongqing

2 posted on 06/09/2020 5:42:35 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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Otherwise known as one of the skyscrapers built by the customers of Walmart.

China....., you didn’t build dat!


5 posted on 06/09/2020 5:45:33 PM PDT by Zuriel (Acts 2:38,39....Do you believe it?)
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How many cameras taking upskirt photos?


7 posted on 06/09/2020 5:49:21 PM PDT by Veggie Todd (Voltaire: "Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool".)
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Oh hell no. Just no


8 posted on 06/09/2020 5:49:55 PM PDT by Mom MD
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No thank you! To my engineer/ architect friends, just because you can build something doesn’t always mean you should.


9 posted on 06/09/2020 5:53:44 PM PDT by lee martell
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Raffles City Chongqing

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

12 posted on 06/09/2020 6:09:18 PM PDT by Ezekiel (The pun is mightier than the s-word. Goy to the World!)
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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.


13 posted on 06/09/2020 6:12:12 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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Do not tempt the gods.


14 posted on 06/09/2020 6:12:50 PM PDT by Terry L Smith
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Yeah. No.


16 posted on 06/09/2020 6:15:49 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Black lives matter" is dog-whistle for "kill Whitey.")
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What could go wrong?


18 posted on 06/09/2020 6:22:09 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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Maggie Hiufu Wong

Or, what could go Wong?


19 posted on 06/09/2020 6:23:14 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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Designed by Moshe Safdie

So it passed the Safdie inspection?


20 posted on 06/09/2020 6:23:50 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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