Posted on 04/27/2025 12:28:01 PM PDT by Red Badger
Don't get me wrong, I love a siesta just as much as the next guy.
But a decade-long break seems a bit, you know, lazy:
A 117-story skyscraper in the Chinese port city of Tianjin has stood unfinished and empty for nearly a decade — but according to China's state media, construction on Goldin Finance 117 may resume as early as next week. If plans stay on schedule this time, the nearly 1,960-foot-tall supertall structure will open its doors in 2027.
The towering structure "has remained the world's tallest unoccupied building since 2015, when financial fallout from the Chinese stock market crash forced the liquidation of its Hong Kong-based real estate developer."
To their credit, the builders at least managed to cap the big structure off before they called it quits:
At just under 600 meters, it will (whenever it's completed) rank among the tallest buildings in the world, easily:
The eeriness of this supertall structure, sitting vacant in a relatively low-slung Chinese port city, cannot be overstated:
17. The abandoned Goldin Finance 117 building in Tianjin (China), with a height of 597 meters, is the tallest abandoned building in the world. pic.twitter.com/MNzAPOWAik— Zack Fursa (@zackfursa) December 23, 2024
It retains the dubious distinction of being the "tallest building [in the world] unoccupied," according to Guinness World Records.
Incredibly, the embarrassment of this disastrous project has likely ensured that no other buildings like it will be built for a while:
Goldin Finance 117 and other previously failed skyscraper projects in China were responsible for the government banning construction of buildings over 500 metres (1,640 feet). When completed, Goldin Finance 117 will be one of China's last 500+ m towers for the foreseeable future.
"When completed" is the key term here! 😂
Stories involving production/construction within the communist system always reminds me of the Soviet Union tractor factory insanity.
Everyone in the area of the tractor factory had a “job.” They came to work every day, and dutifully worked to produce tractors. Right outside the tractor factory were rows and rows and rows of brand new tractors that would eventually rust. There is no “market” in the Marxist/Leninist world.
The Tower of Babel quickly comes to my mind.
My second thought is such a conspicuously large building in a country with millions of starving people just may stir somebody to a point of rage, where they want to bring that ‘useless’ building down to the ground, to stop the wasted government monies. It’s one of the biggest Man Made targets the world has ever seen.
And it will topple over two years after it’s completed.
All that exposed steel cannot be any good.................It came from China.................
I wouldn’t go up that tower if you paid me.
2nd Tallest Building in the World: Merdeka 118 Opens in Kuala Lumpur
< gunny hartman>”I didn’t know they stacked tofu dreg that high!”</ gunny hartman>
There are probably clusters of Tent Cities inside on the ground floors. A separate reality, similar to prison/ zoo life.
Who's going to clean all those windows?
Quality steel was used, right?
Yep. I see that building all the time. Can’t believe it’s been 23 years. It was supposed to be the home of a Christian radio station?
Naturally, that building is of the highest quality.
But of course!.....................Just like that Thai Skyscraper...................
I met a guy that was a crane operator. He quit one job after he was made to sit in an inoperable crane while they waited on a part from Germany. He said he was going crazy after the second day of just sitting in the crane (union rules).
I wonder how those Chinese guys are doing after 10 years up there?
China doesn’t have millions of starving people. It’s not 1948 anymore.
They have rapidly developing obesity problem.
One thing about it, looking at that skyline nobody’s going to be asking “Which one is it?”
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