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Future Sky City Skyscraper – apartments for 174,000 peole and 104 elevators
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This is follow up news about the tallest skyscraper project that is expected in Changsa from Broad Group.
Reach for the sky: the world's tallest buildings, once the 838-meter Sky City is completed, projected for January 2013.
The Wall Street Journal had some more details about the Sky City project.
Once it’s done, Sky City will boast 220 floors, 1 million square meters of floor space and 104 elevators, according to the preliminary plans. More than 80% of the floor area will be devoted to housing for 174,000 people, with a hotel, school, hospital, offices, shops and restaurants taking up the remainder. The building would use up 200,000 tones of steel and be able to accommodate as many as 314,000 people at any given time, Broad said, adding that the official plans will be released around August.
Changsha, the capital of China’s Hunan province, has just granted approval for the world’s tallest building. On the fifth of this month, the Wangcheng district government signed a contract with Broad Group, a local firm, which promised to put up the 838-meter tower in seven months.
Seven months? If all goes according to plan, Tiankong Chengshi—Sky City—will be completed sometime next January.
Broad originally planned a 666-meter skyscrapper, but the local government wanted the world’s tallest. That’s a dead giveaway politics are distorting the economics of the project.
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