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       The Largest Building Ever Constructed Has Opened in China
   DIR By: Mac
       Date: August 1, 2013, 4:54 pm
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       [glow=red,2,300]The Largest Building Ever Constructed Has Opened
       in China
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       At what point does a building become a city? At 1.7 million
       square meters, the New Century Global Center lands somewhere
       between the two.
       New Century, which has been under construction since spring of
       2012 (which isn't long, for a building of this size), opened
       officially on July 1. The 18-story, glass-and-steel frame
       structure sits above a new subway station in Chengdu, a Sichuan
       province city of more than 14 million and one of China's
       fastest-growing megalopolises.
       What will visitors find inside its glassy walls? It's actually
       fairly standard, as mega-structures go: A 14-screen IMAX
       theater, shops, restaurants, offices, hotels, a Mediterranean
       village reconstruction (duh), and finally, its pièce de
       résistance—a massive artificial beach that boasts realistic
       sunsets and sea breezes, thanks to a huge LED screen on one
       side. A 500,000-square-foot art center designed by Zaha Hadid is
       under construction next door.
       It's not so much what New Century contains as how much of it.
       It's hard to visualize numbers like 1.7 million square meters,
       so here are a few comparisons. You could fit three Pentagons
       inside its walls, or 20 Sydney Opera Houses. It's nearly 500,000
       square feet larger than the building it beat out for the title,
       Dubai's International Airport Terminal 3. The largest building
       in the US, by comparison, is the Palazzo in Las Vegas, which
       comes in at #11 worldwide.
       It's worth pointing out that New Century isn't the first
       megastructure of its kind, though it is the largest. Architects
       and planners in China are pioneering the construction of entire
       urban regions from scratch. The title of world's largest
       structure, in that light, is really just a way for New Century's
       developers to distinguish it from the pack.
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       Re: The Largest Building Ever Constructed Has Opened in China
   DIR By: Chiprocks1
       Date: August 2, 2013, 8:51 pm
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       I'm sure it's big and the numbers don't lie, but obviously the
       pics don't do it justice. On the surface, it just looks like
       something I'd find on every other block in Vegas. I do like the
       design though.
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