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That China is one of the countries of the world record architecturally speaking does not doubt anyone. And with buildings like the one just opened, the tallest horizontal (yes, horizontal) skyscraper on the planet, confirms this.
It is called Crystal, it is located at a height of 250 meters high and rests on four impressive towers of offices and houses to which it connects through various platforms. Two other located to the north reach a height of 350 meters.
Delayed coronavirus
The inauguration was scheduled for the end of last year, when the building was already built, but the coronavirus crisis has delayed the premiere until now, which has done so by hype. Of course, to visit its different facilities you have to pass an exhaustive sanitary control, which includes taking body temperature. In addition, it is mandatory to wear a mask at all times.
The work belongs to the Raffles City Chongqing urban complex , located in the Chinese city of the same name, in the southwest of the country and at the confluence between the Yangtze and Jialing rivers, so the views from above are spectacular. The name of the pantagruélica construction, which weighs more than 12,000 tons, has an explanation, since it took 3,000 glass panels and 5,000 pieces of aluminum to lift it . Crystal is shaped like a bridge spanning 15,000 square meters .
Throughout the Raffles there are different gardens, countless restaurants and bars, a panoramic observatory , an exclusive space for events, several luxury hotels , a club for the residents of the complex and an infinity pool that is destined to become the object of wish of the most outstanding influencers on the planet. There are more: 1,400 residential apartments, a shopping center with 450 stores and 160,000 square meters of offices.
Similar to Singapore's Marina Bay
The building has been carried out by the prestigious studio Safdie Architects, winner of the Wolf Prize for Architecture , one of the most outstanding in the sector, also responsible for the emblematic Marina Bay Sands in Singapore, which follows a model similar to Crystal, with a horizontal structure that it sits on three 68-meter towers.
Safdie Architects has also given birth to Singapore's Changi Airport, ranked as the best in the world for its design for precisely eight consecutive years . Still, the head of Safide Architest, Moshe Safdie, has gone so far as to say that the new Crystal is the "most complicated" project of his entire career.
It took six years to build the newly released Crystal. All to achieve the 1.12 million square meters of the total complex, since apart from the four towers on which the bridge is built at 250 meters (on the 42nd floor), the other two of it must be highlighted. height and two more at 350 meters.
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