>>Following six years of construction, the Moshe Safdie-designed Raffles City Chongqing is nearing completion in China. Representing a genuinely impressive engineering achievement, the so-called horizontal skyscraper consists of a cluster of eight towers and a huge connecting skybridge. <<

>>The scale of the project is considerable, with a total floorspace of 817,000 sq m (roughly 8.8 million sq ft), spread over its eight towers. The curved skybridge, dubbed the Crystal, is its focal point and is supported by four 250 m (820 ft)-tall skyscrapers. It also connects another pair of 350 m (1,148 ft)-tall skyscrapers via two adjoining smaller skybridges.<<

PermeateFree said:

>>Following six years of construction, the Moshe Safdie-designed Raffles City Chongqing is nearing completion in China. Representing a genuinely impressive engineering achievement, the so-called horizontal skyscraper consists of a cluster of eight towers and a huge connecting skybridge. <<

>>The scale of the project is considerable, with a total floorspace of 817,000 sq m (roughly 8.8 million sq ft), spread over its eight towers. The curved skybridge, dubbed the Crystal, is its focal point and is supported by four 250 m (820 ft)-tall skyscrapers. It also connects another pair of 350 m (1,148 ft)-tall skyscrapers via two adjoining smaller skybridges.<<

Dunno if it is perspective but the two smaller towers look a bit curved as well.

AwesomeO said:

PermeateFree said:

>>Following six years of construction, the Moshe Safdie-designed Raffles City Chongqing is nearing completion in China. Representing a genuinely impressive engineering achievement, the so-called horizontal skyscraper consists of a cluster of eight towers and a huge connecting skybridge. <<

>>The scale of the project is considerable, with a total floorspace of 817,000 sq m (roughly 8.8 million sq ft), spread over its eight towers. The curved skybridge, dubbed the Crystal, is its focal point and is supported by four 250 m (820 ft)-tall skyscrapers. It also connects another pair of 350 m (1,148 ft)-tall skyscrapers via two adjoining smaller skybridges.<<

Dunno if it is perspective but the two smaller towers look a bit curved as well.

Sorry, forgot the url.

https://newatlas.com/raffle-city-chongqing-moshe-safdie-nears-completion/58623/

PermeateFree said:

AwesomeO said:

PermeateFree said:

>>Following six years of construction, the Moshe Safdie-designed Raffles City Chongqing is nearing completion in China. Representing a genuinely impressive engineering achievement, the so-called horizontal skyscraper consists of a cluster of eight towers and a huge connecting skybridge. <<

>>The scale of the project is considerable, with a total floorspace of 817,000 sq m (roughly 8.8 million sq ft), spread over its eight towers. The curved skybridge, dubbed the Crystal, is its focal point and is supported by four 250 m (820 ft)-tall skyscrapers. It also connects another pair of 350 m (1,148 ft)-tall skyscrapers via two adjoining smaller skybridges.<<

Dunno if it is perspective but the two smaller towers look a bit curved as well.

Sorry, forgot the url.

https://newatlas.com/raffle-city-chongqing-moshe-safdie-nears-completion/58623/

Wow. Reminds me of a building in Singapore, but not at all the same.

Hope they have not used aluminium cladding.

bucolic3401 said:

Hope they have not used aluminium cladding.

They have probably used no cladding.

party_pants said:

bucolic3401 said:

Hope they have not used aluminium cladding.

They have probably used no cladding.

and is enclosed with 3,200 pieces of glass and 4,800 aluminum panels.

bucolic3401 said:

Hope they have not used aluminium cladding.

Why not? It was industry standard on skyscrapers last time i looked.

It’s not that amazing

dv said:

It’s not that amazing

No. Isn’t it approaching what we are used to seeing in The Jetsons? I find that amazing.

mollwollfumble said:

dv said:

It’s not that amazing

No. Isn’t it approaching what we are used to seeing in The Jetsons? I find that amazing.

It’s approaching other things that already exist.

dv said:

mollwollfumble said:

dv said:

It’s not that amazing

No. Isn’t it approaching what we are used to seeing in The Jetsons? I find that amazing.

It’s approaching other things that already exist.

Like Singapore’s Marina Bay Sands Hotel. I can’t help wondering if the Chinese one is the same architect or a copycat architect. But it is different.