China's US$4.8 billion 'horizontal skyscraper' is nearly complete
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Construction is nearly complete on a so-called horizontal skyscraper in China’s southwestern province of Chongqing.
The Raffle City Chongqing complex features a futuristic design including a bridge which spans across four of eight buildings.
Developers say the horizontal span named “Crystal” is one of the world’s highest sky bridges, and will be a key feature of the complex which includes 1,400 residential flats, offices and leisure facilities as well as a hotel and shopping centre.
The futuristic skyscraper is expected to open in late 2019.
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75% units had been sold ... to buyers who intend to resell the very day it is completed.
Thats how it works 😂
林子倫 probably all to rich Chinese oligarchs profiting off the backs of the working class
Pls do some research before you comment.
@tenderloin87 nah. Only in china
@@Imabeatyouman nothing different to any other country then...
*even their furniture,elavator, restroom is horizontal*
🤣🤣
Except that you don't call it elevator anymore😃
even u will become horizontal if u go there.
Next is diagonal, then upsidedown
Nah, hanging down from the sky. From 2D to 3D.
And finally, round and round and round
It already is both. Just look at it from space.
then slanted
2075: Donut skyscrappers
Kaiju: tasty
Godzilla: new target
Khabib CageJumper Nurmagomedov 😂😂😂
Wait 580,000 dollars get you one bedroom unit? That’s some crazy prices
That aint crazy compare to the price of an apartment in Shenzhen or Shanghai for example.
Singapore corporations own a great portion of this project
For 98m^2 I thought that unit would be able to fit in an additional bedroom though
Past: Flying Cars
Literally everyone who stayed alive until today: HORIZONTAL BUILDING
That's where I go for my morning jogs
That's where I go for my night jogs
China is becoming more impressive.
I think you meant China is becoming more suppressive.
@@zilun you again
@@zilun show your face.
@@bravequeen77 Lol why the hostility, my neggah?
@@zilun how?
I am not Chinese but when I see China developing it makes me happy :)
That's because you're easily fooled by Propaganda! I guess you don't realize that the Chinese people are under communist rule in the Communist do nothing but lie to their people and the world! Their buildings are crumbling even after being built only a few years. Investors go in and get out right away knowing that these buildings are going to be falling apart as soon as they get done! There's entire ghost cities that don't have people living in these huge buildings!
@@Blessedone333AZ well if that is the case major cities such as Shanghai Shenzhen Beijing should all be rubble by now, but somehow they still exist and are becoming bigger and denser every day with larger downtown areas and more stuff. So your hypothesis is clearly false
@@canyuewang7096 True. Probably because he chooses to believe in western propaganda instead. 😂
@@Blessedone333AZ low lives like you are the ones spreading lies and propaganda, most of what you called ghost city in China, are already filling up quickly. I had stayed in 40 stories hotel several times without incident. When China is advancing and building things, all you can do is eating sour grapes.
@@canyuewang7096 Shanghai and inner Mongolia is decent, but the rest are not worth visiting
I feel like countries in Asia are advancing with technology and the U.S. is not one of the most advancing country anymore
Anime Fan you think? Lol. Actively holding themselves back for no reason. They scream capitalism while willfully making arguably the most value destructive decisions I’ve ever heard of in the entire history of earth. No exaggeration it’s the data. I hope that China can show maturity and respect for basic self determination, freedom within reason as it uplifts itself and begins to lead the world. Don’t lash out or have too much concern with short term rhetoric, reign in some of the destructive forces trying to hide themselves under China’s flag. The vast majority don’t want conflicts. China is quantifiably exceeding the US in many respects and I hope that it leads with the wisdom of true altruism. I have so much respect for China and the Chinese people.
I like naruto
Looks like Petronas Twin Towers and Marina Bay Sands merge together. Hmm
It’s the same architect of marina bay sands
Singapore has a huge part to play in this. They are helping China build a city while using similar architecture design from Singapore buildings such as the Marina Bay Sands
Zach Tan I even thought that these buildings looked like they were in Singapore.
@Paradigm They've worked with China for a long time you idiot. They work with everyone because they're pragmatic. They work with both bully superpowers.
It's from the same architect
Singaporeans don't try to take credit from this, even Marina Bay was designed by western architect
@@stevej1235 not the matter of taking credit or not.
Who cares abt credit?
And why are you so defensive for china?
Is great china, has been the biggest copy cat around the world. They can totally copy a exact city and build it in china.
Kudos. You really ought to be proud. This title no one have yet to claim.
Looks similar like the one Singapore has it marina bay sands
China I know that you are going for modern but please keep some city or province in Traditional Chinese style stop building such enormous cities everywhere.
the world is changing all the time. this is chinese new style.
@@akltom Yes but we must preserve some of our heritage not just destroy everything. Imagine if they rebuild Great Wall of China with Concrete and Iron and Glass.
Alex Shuysky sorry dude it’s too late. Chinese in China just want improved life. 🤦♂️
@@annliu7640 Umm you can have traditional style houses with modern inside lol People do that everywhere else in the world.
Too late...even Chinese knows that Japan korea taiwan etc keeps chinese traditions way better than china does. China likes to out with the old and in with the new
China is so advance I can’t believe it.. it’s like a science fiction that came true.. I’m really impressed
During fire, can pple escape fast even ? Fire safety is a real concern
Im over here in N.Y not able to afford an apartment the size of a closet 😑
What’s next, skyscrapers that literally scrape the sky?
Well... the sky is the limit
Tattle Boad r/woooosh
Tattle Boad do you even know what woooosh means
*Skyscraper with Dwyane "Rock" Johnson starts playing*
bayspotter big city’s in China, a apartment complex cost you about $2 million
@@dennis_9039 ok cool
来福士 是鸦片战争前期东印度公司的英国殖民者,现在成为重庆的地标名称
而朝天门三个字从此消失于崇洋媚外的浪潮之中
厉害了重庆
Bie Zhang 莱佛士是新加坡的开发者。所以猜想发展商应该有新加坡资金背景。
@@chursoocheng4044 capital land
Oh look chicken scratch
@@ktkska8886 chicken scratch! You're on an English-speaking platform this isn't Weibo or tencent!
丑 领导的审美 傻大粗
98 sqm for only 500k? My 50 sqm appartement in paris costs 700 000
Yeah that's Paris. Not a unknown location in China like this one
Well done China. 🇮🇳
while mainland chinese are busy building up their cities, people are protesting and striking or skipping classes on the streets of hong kong. it's obvious who will prosper and live a better life.
Next project: Cube standing on it's corner
The architect who designed Marina Bay Sands in Singapore also designed this. To be honest, the Singaporean building looks much better. I feel this enormous building is too imposing for that particular site at the tip of the peninsula in Chongqing. It would have been better to have something smaller and more graceful there, and taller buildings further back. But what is built is built. Chongqing is an amazing city with some of the best food in China (outside Guangdong of course :-) And it so happens that southwest China has some of the worst weather (least sunshine hours) in the world.
Maybe a tribute to singapore
I actually like the design, I think it just adds to Chongqing's batshit insane architecture.
This must be a joint development between Singapore and Chongqing. Raffles city is from Singapore.
漢仔 it’s a collaboration between China and Singapore! Raffles City Chongqing complex, Raffles City = Singapore and Chongqing = China.
This building is also designed by the same architect who designed Marina Bay Sand in Singapore! China-SG ✨
That's not a big deal, we just happened to have a little bit more experience from building the wall a few thousand years ago…
The safety precautions look horrendous
75 % rooms be sold or be speculated?
Any story behind using Raffles as the name ?
Singapore is involved in a development partnership in Chongqing, after Suzhou and Tianjin.
@@NangongReng1973 Alright thanks!
Can it be a ghost building in the future ?
Chongqing is a rich, prosperous, thriving and populous modern city along the busy Yangtze River. The standard of living of its residents is comparatively to those of Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. I'm not referring to the migrant workers. This project is built at the waterfront of the city. Moreover, it is a Singapore investment (no need to explain) .
Can never beat the Original. Great respect to SG. At least, China did not steal this time
Robot Cop if you are referring to marina bay sands as the original, both were designed by the same architect.
These units will be bought and sold until the prices are too high for anyone to purchase, then the market will collapse. That's exactly what happened here in America from 2006-2009. Investors would buy 50,000+ homes here in Phoenix (many not even built yet), sell them at 200% price and another investor would buy the lot, sell it to another investor for 200% price, and so on. By late 2007, a small 2 bedroom 1 bathroom house here was over 1 million dollars. Almost nobody could afford to buy these homes, so hundreds of thousands of newly-built homes were vacant and occupied homes foreclosed. As a result, demand fell and prices fell. The investors lost millions, sold their toxic debt via credit default swap which had a domino effect on insurance and banking companies causing the ENTIRE housing market and banking industry to collapse in 2008.
If China keeps overbuilding and overselling, the same thing will happen to them.
I am filipino and I am not amazed even, we filipinos are poor but proud to have so many friends around the world and loving us like human kind not like these chinese people who is showing to the world of its greediness..
Just like the one from Singapore
Thịnh Ngô They're the same investor
@@dk123m7 No the same investor but same designer
Isn’t it a similar one looking but just in singapore?
Hello cyberpunk China.
The name raffles as stated is a singapore developer
That money could've provided homes for lower income people.
Yeah tell that to the company
give your money to low income people first idiot
Use your money first
Nobody copied nobody, it was designed by the same architect Moshe Safdie.
Chongqing impressive city 😀
With fireworks in New Year,this is going to be the destination to visit for....
4.8 billion dollars. Is it economically feasible for the developers?
Temasek
The next project will be an invisible skyscraper. Everything will be see through. The illusion of floating people inside the building
How will it do against the earthquakes in that area?
Can a non-chinese resident buy it?
That's going to collapse.
Twin tower flashbacks
in Australia the 'downunder skyscrapers' exist.
Did they copy singapore's marina bay sands building?
Look at the sky, look at the pollution, disgusting
Basically it's Marina bay sands but instead of Pool they just added another building lol
Salud to those workers
Air polution
Too bad it’s “Made in China “ we all know the quality .
No wonder,.it is a Singaporean project.
At this point there just bored honestly
South Korean: The Chinese stole my American father's technology again.
And remember china can build it for "half of the price"
And remember the Chinese communist government over build things in order to continue their propaganda that they're actually still in the growth mode when in reality they build buildings which crumble within a decade!
Blessedone333AZ so why the fck are all the major Chinese cities still here?
Which is music
Wow! I wanna see it in real life.
Mainland China, a place so full of potential
Pull down the red and yellow flag, you deserve better
@Sheuno you seem to be lost in the idea that democracy is a purely Western idea that cannot be introduced to the Chinese, using poor examples in the Middle East to make yourself feel better
I'm sure you will conveniently blame everything to the West before even looking into a problem objectively
marina bay sands in china
Moshe saifde the same architect?
@@muse3992 no marina bay sands is a hotel this thing in china is a skyscraper
Kathy Vinh Ton Nu a skyscraper is a name for a type of building, not the function of a building. Marina Bay Sands and this building are both skyscrapers. Ones just a hotel and the other residential (I think)
Copy of it
Same architect
Another tofu building. How many foreigners will buy into this compared to western countries that Chinese buy, one way street 😂
Very funny, why would Capitland and architect Moshe Safdie have the face to replicate a masterpiece lookalike from their own country/ past portfolio? Really lowering the standard for Singapore and Moshe
One of the ugliest skyscrapers I have ever seen. Maybe it will look better when it’s finished.
what a disaster
Vertical swimming pool when?
Wow, another landmark for China
Still not as impressive as the vertical skyscraper
So... I guess it's a bigger version of Singapore's Marina Bay Sands? Ok. Think of something new next time.
It was designed by the same architect. Duh!
@@pineapplesareyummy6352 True. But it would be better if he came up with different plans.
Hey that is a copycat from Singapore Marina Bay Sand Hotel spaceship .
😂hahaha
漢仔 it’s a collaboration between China and Singapore! Raffles City Chongqing complex, Raffles City = Singapore and Chongqing = China.
This building is also designed by the same architect who designed Marina Bay Sand in Singapore! China-SG ✨
@@lsy3573 really? 😎
Ace Victory yes! It’s under CapitaLand, they are a HUGE real estate company from Singapore. They actually have quite a few estates/Malls across China. This one is special because it’s designed by the same architect of Marina Bay Sands !
@@lsy3573
It is legit then. Singapore do know how to do business.
This remind me to Marina Bay Sand
That's not very tall is it? I think China is doing far more impressive things
Musk could have 50 of these 😮
It's basically another Marina Bay Sands from Singapore. CapitaLand (Singaporean) owns it. Architect is the same architect - Moshie Safdie, who also designed Marina Bay Sands. Raffles city - also another shopping complex in Singapore. Nothing impressive.
It's still pretty impressive.
It’s impressive as this is another establishment towards the friendship and collaboration between SG and China! ✨
You say that like you can build that massive stracture well if you can i wish you the best
it didn't last long i believe since they were made in china
You are an idiot.
Pretty cool but is not designed by chinese
Jay Rick why !! Who designed it ???
gerard . A signaporean
Do a search please
Jay Rick I did , it didn’t comeback with anything apart the name of a chines company , when you type horizontal sky scraper in google it gives you Malloy , but for another project , I am not an architect , but I think you are the one that said it’s not chines , so you should know who he is !!!
gerard . You should search harder if you really wanted to know. Stop acting like kids demanding answers. The info are all over google if that is what you use to search. And yes i i know who is.
Maybe they should focus on the major pollution going on in their country than building new expensive buildings... we talk about climate change so much but never force the ones who contribute the most to it to actually do something.
One Punch tell the west to stop buying goods from China first
l sy and what will that do to our economies when the main items that are sold on the market every minute is from China? China and India especially need to solve their pollution issues because if even one of India’s cities that mass pollute gets clean it would do the world a big favor.
How about the west start it first?
I don't understand, $580,000*1400=$812,000,000. This building costs $4,800,000,000? Am I missing something?
$580K means the cost (price) for buyers if they want to have one unit flat there. Not the cost of the contractor spent to built them.
But 98 sq meters with only 1 bedroom seems a waste of space, it could have more bedroom i guess.
4.8 billion to build, not the cost.
they do not only have flat
Gold Tank Then entire project is so much more than the 1400 residential units. Plus, $580k is the price for a 95m^2 unit, not for ANY unit. There must be some much larger ones.
flats only 40% of occupation. Offices, shopping malls, hotels, gyms usually will take a place in this kind of buildings
That building belongs to a Singapore developer.
Singaporean are more confident to be in China than their own country.
But why the name Raffles?
@@lsy3573 And the original Raffles complex was built on the site of the Raffles Institution, named after Singapore's favourite Englishman - Sir Stamford Raffles, who laid the foundation for modern Singapore.
C brtdgh erm ok
Singaporean be like hmmmm
Rebecca Trace Singapore has always and still continues to have very strong diplomatic ties with China. This building is another example of the friendship and relationship between Singapore and China. Another great collaboration between these two is the China-Singapore Suzhou Industrial Park!
WHO BOUGHT THESE ONE BEDROOM RESIDENTIAL UNITS FOR $500 000USD? CRAZY PEOPLE?
AHAHAHA LOL
Hengsha from Deus Ex!
Didn't they just have an earthquake there?
Kevin that was Yibin, they’re like hours apart
Looks impressive reminds me of the twin towers in malaysia and the marina sands in singapore all combined into one.
Its looks MBS ish because it is invested by the same investment group...
H C makes sense 👌
Why not say America's World Trade Centre?
Can’t SCMP post it when it is completed...?
Like Chinese state media really wanted to show up the new trains so they posted a video of it before the test-run...
Are they making the same like in Singapore?
Marina Bay Sands Chongqing
Nah Im fine
impressed
8 planes
Any Chinese here,I guess not
That guy above you
A bad MBS
Copy Singapore MBS?
@@lsy3573 Then I don't like it
@@arrowstheorem1881 then avoid commenting pal
@@santiagorappy71 I happy cannot? You are nobody to me. You think your father owns the internet? You think you are dictator?
@@arrowstheorem1881 I like it.
@@arrowstheorem1881 It's time to take your pills
Would have liked to see this but Chongqing is the worst.
It's been started by Petronas Twin Towers in Malaysia, then Marina Bay Sands in Singapore, and now is The Raffle City Chongqing in China.
*Tiger, Lion & Dragon of Asia🔥
新加坡凯德置地开发的
So!? What's the big deal???