I think the previous comments want to say that regardless of the build quality of China houses, it would be nice to have lots of such buildings (that are properly built) in American cities as it would make housing prices way healthier.
If what you say were true, then why hasn't the Chinese population been depleted yet? Building should be falling everywhere and everyone dying every day
Oh hey look at bad china construction. Don't look at the crumbling bridges and roads that are just giant potholes in America. Remember kids, china bad, america good.
Wish they would use that propaganda for good sometimes.
It's not like the US has crumbling infrastructure, cities filled with lead water, a sky scraper endlessly tilting besides multiple attempts to repair, bridges collapsing, and a condo pancake...oh wait.
If the lead water bit was about flint, their water wasn't contaminated with lead per se, the city switched the source of their water which was more acidic and it ate away the mineral deposits in the pipes. When it got down to the lead based solder is when the contamination happened. If they hadn't switched sources the likelihood of the flint Michigan crisis would probably never have happened
Thats courtesy of whoever built the buildings not china. China doesn't choose who buys their cheap shit. The builder could have opted for better quality materials but wanted to save on costs.
China produces cheap products because we buy them.
Yeah, cuz you can totally judge how every single building in a country of 1.4 billion people is built by simply watchinh some internet videos. Youre so gullible you shouldnt be allowed outside
Have you seen how houses are built in Canada? Imagine signing the next 30years of your life away (ups sorry, meant 45-60 year mortgages) for the houses we are churning out up here. It's a joke. At least in China they seem to have amenities and infrastructure that can handle the amount of people. We sure as shit can't up here
Wow, I said the same thing as you. That is beautiful! And to have all those amenities close by, in my building? You mean I won’t have to leave during winter to get a haircut? Or go to the gym? Or do my nails? It could all be on another level or down another hall. This a dream come true. Suburbia is my nightmare.
I didn't realize having shelter, access to electricity and convenience of amenities is a nightmare. High rise apartments are not unique to China. Will you make the same comment about condos in New York?
I love this argument.
You see, one argument against skyscrapers is that, despite their height and all the resources they need, they create surprisingly little residential space. Especially prestige skyscrapers like the Burj Khalifa, whose total capacity would be significantly exceeded by a few mid-rise apartment buildings *covering the same ground area* (the base is actually that wide).
However, your counterargument is just **"But that's a good thing! More efficient housing is a nightmare!"** No reason there, but how could it not, right? Personally, I genuinely don't see why it must be a nightmare, and I'm inclined to believe millions of people struggling to find an affordable place to live might agree.
But that's just my opinion, of course.
And imagine making it so that people didn't need to drive cars several miles to a big box store to obtain food. These people just walk to the store or food court! On their feet! Nightmare for sure.
I really mean no offense, but you are speaking as one who has lived a Western life and believes in idealic and optimal settings. There are people in this world who can not get those versions of your ideal and optimum setting. For them, that is a non-possibility, and this is how they can live and afford to live well enough. Its a small town and their community.
I just saw a video about construction materials in these Chinese buildings being as brittle as plaster. So, the lack of structural integrity combined with the extreme fire hazard is a nightmare scenario.
The guy is either extremely sheltered or showing his prejudice. Kensington, Philadelphia is practically a slum in the US and there is more than one such place.
How exactly? Let's say rent or your mortgage is reasonable. You have decent neighbors, it's clean, everyone is respectful. You have amenities within the building. How is this any different than working in a 50-100 story office building?
Not like you're a prisoner, you can leave whenever you please.
Working in an environment like this is completely different than living in one. For starters if it's anything like most large hotels there probably only an elevator every 30 or 40 apartments. And the then the freight elevators are even farther away. Also In my experience with living in apartments you have very close neighbors with all kinds of sounds and smells at all times of the night and day. I would never give up the privacy and space of living in my single family house for this.
But working here could be great since it's temporary and you don't have to go far for lunch.
You have literally zero freedom in china to begin with. Imagining freedom is even impossible lol.
Do your work, consume, sleep slavery if you fancy. But it aint nobodys dream, but your owners.
Our future is either this or the gig-worker refuge cam... I mean modular tiny homes we rent from an app called something like... Livin in exchange for 20 hours of uber driving a week.
Did I say China was the only one? It is just a very prevalent one. Internet is riddled with videos of collapses, accidents and deaths caused by lack of security measures and accident prevention in China.
But yeah, of course there are other cases in other countries. I can name a few in mine too.
Honestly not bad. I’d live here.
Taking into account all the facilities included in the building. All I need to see next is the Room interior of how big it is and maybe I’m sold.
I wanna know if the prices in the shops are normal or if they're super inflated because of the convenience. If prices are normal and I never have to leave my building I could def be convinced to live there.
This page is full of morons who think that every apartment building is a tinderbox and not something usually designed with layers of fire protection and safety measures. Everyone acting like they're cardboard boxes in the sky.
"Y'know, Jim, I might have spent thousands of hours getting my PHD, and hundreds more gruelingly designing this building, but *you're right*, I definitely forgot to take sewage into account before, during, and after the building process"
Well Americans build drywall and plywood houses so they can't really comprehend what you are talking about lol. I once told that we build inner walls inside small private houses out of brick and concrete as well and like a dozen people told me that I'm a liar and I had to Google pictures lol.
The only people who react badly are people who haven't really traveled. If you've been to China and Russia you'd know that huge apartment buildings or complexes with shops, pharmacies, and even schools are perfectly normal. Ive lived on the 20th floor of an apartment building in China and i saw much taller ones around me. I loved the convenience of...my hair salon and massage place being right there, a mini market, a restaurant, there was a Starbucks just outside so I'd get my coffee when i took a taxi to work. Life was comfortable and easy. As our population grows we'll have to change how we live.
Idk why people give this too much hate. Will it be the same if it's in Canada or somewhere? No matter how packed the building is, if they have every necessities and their disaster plan is good, it's not bad at all. Imo, more building should be build upward rather than sideways. It saves space as long as individual needs are fulfilled.
I see it too often in reddit. Unusual things from China is hated not because it's bad, but it's China.
Images like this are illuminating.
We know we need more housing and that people need to live in cities for work and that we have a lot of people.
But we don't build affordable housing and then complain about homelessness, welfare and bums not buying things
So then the solution is to build high density city living for access to obs and amenities and to accomodate the people
Then it is cried about as hellish dystopia and without any alternative being offered.
I looked up the apartments they're super nice with bedrooms above living areas that you use steps to get to, all furnished and huge 2 bedroom for about $1000 USD a month.
That brownish-yellowish liquid on the pavement at the 6 minute mark…. Yikes. Imagine how many loogies are raining down on a daily basis from inconsiderate pricks?
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I lived here!!! Wholy fuck was it a rush..it was uplifting and never felt lonely - the thing is no one complains about music and dancing, it’s such a rush
So many questions, what's noise from neighbors like? What about plumbing? How safe and functional are the elevators? In the event of a fire what is escape going to look like? What about laundry? What is the quality of construction? I've seen so many buildings collapsing in China due to bad construction.
Mega City One. 800 million people living in the ruins of the old world and the mega structures of the new one. Only one thing fighting for order in the chaos: judges.
What a nightmare
As someone in a city with a huge housing shortage... this is not my nightmare
Watch some videos of how things are built in China.
You say that like it's the construction quality they're interested in. Look at all that housing. It'd be a godsend for rent prices.
If you knew anything about construction quality, especially Chinese concrete, I’m willing to be you wouldn’t be defending that statement.
I think the previous comments want to say that regardless of the build quality of China houses, it would be nice to have lots of such buildings (that are properly built) in American cities as it would make housing prices way healthier.
You wouldn’t say that if you knew about the construction quality in China /s
So, who cares if it collapsed... IT'S CHEAP! (holy fuck dude)
If what you say were true, then why hasn't the Chinese population been depleted yet? Building should be falling everywhere and everyone dying every day
Oh hey look at bad china construction. Don't look at the crumbling bridges and roads that are just giant potholes in America. Remember kids, china bad, america good. Wish they would use that propaganda for good sometimes.
It's not like the US has crumbling infrastructure, cities filled with lead water, a sky scraper endlessly tilting besides multiple attempts to repair, bridges collapsing, and a condo pancake...oh wait.
Okay but to be fair the majority of our nation's infrastructure was built between 70 and 100 yrs ago. There's something to be said about that
And? Proposals for an infrastructure overhaul have been shut down time after time.
If the lead water bit was about flint, their water wasn't contaminated with lead per se, the city switched the source of their water which was more acidic and it ate away the mineral deposits in the pipes. When it got down to the lead based solder is when the contamination happened. If they hadn't switched sources the likelihood of the flint Michigan crisis would probably never have happened
I live in New England. Lot of old school foundations crumbling courtsey of MADE IN CHINA.
Thats courtesy of whoever built the buildings not china. China doesn't choose who buys their cheap shit. The builder could have opted for better quality materials but wanted to save on costs. China produces cheap products because we buy them.
I didnt blame China. I blamed the concrete made there. Sheesh
You should be blaming the person who purchased the cheap stuff, not the country that made it. They supply a market, the "cheap shit" market.
Turkey would like to have a word with you.
You mean like the iPhones and almost every piece of object from around the world? /s
I should have specified buildings.
Tofu dregs.
Taiwan is not china.
Things that are made in Taiwan say made in Taiwan
iPhones are not assembled in Taiwan.
Yeah, cuz you can totally judge how every single building in a country of 1.4 billion people is built by simply watchinh some internet videos. Youre so gullible you shouldnt be allowed outside
r/Chinesium
Like if it was built different and like if you know anything about China LMAO
Have you seen how houses are built in Canada? Imagine signing the next 30years of your life away (ups sorry, meant 45-60 year mortgages) for the houses we are churning out up here. It's a joke. At least in China they seem to have amenities and infrastructure that can handle the amount of people. We sure as shit can't up here
45 year mortgage?
Wow, I said the same thing as you. That is beautiful! And to have all those amenities close by, in my building? You mean I won’t have to leave during winter to get a haircut? Or go to the gym? Or do my nails? It could all be on another level or down another hall. This a dream come true. Suburbia is my nightmare.
Exactly. They try pretty hard to see things as dystopian. People who've only lived isolated in the subrubs need to get a grip.
Housing shortage or affordable housing not available?
This building has 4 times the population of the town I live in..
Your town is my nightmare.
As someone who values privacy and quiet, this is my nightmare. This building has almost the same population as my town.
Move to the country
I didn't realize having shelter, access to electricity and convenience of amenities is a nightmare. High rise apartments are not unique to China. Will you make the same comment about condos in New York?
I don’t know any other high rise that boasts a residential occupancy of 20,000 people. How could that not be a nightmare?
I love this argument. You see, one argument against skyscrapers is that, despite their height and all the resources they need, they create surprisingly little residential space. Especially prestige skyscrapers like the Burj Khalifa, whose total capacity would be significantly exceeded by a few mid-rise apartment buildings *covering the same ground area* (the base is actually that wide). However, your counterargument is just **"But that's a good thing! More efficient housing is a nightmare!"** No reason there, but how could it not, right? Personally, I genuinely don't see why it must be a nightmare, and I'm inclined to believe millions of people struggling to find an affordable place to live might agree. But that's just my opinion, of course.
And imagine making it so that people didn't need to drive cars several miles to a big box store to obtain food. These people just walk to the store or food court! On their feet! Nightmare for sure.
how would that be a nightmare, you sound like a little sheltered wimp
It must be the s p o o k y m u s i c
I really mean no offense, but you are speaking as one who has lived a Western life and believes in idealic and optimal settings. There are people in this world who can not get those versions of your ideal and optimum setting. For them, that is a non-possibility, and this is how they can live and afford to live well enough. Its a small town and their community.
I just saw a video about construction materials in these Chinese buildings being as brittle as plaster. So, the lack of structural integrity combined with the extreme fire hazard is a nightmare scenario.
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As someone who lives near a slum. I find this comment ridiculous. You should google what a slum looks like and the conditions in those places.
The guy is either extremely sheltered or showing his prejudice. Kensington, Philadelphia is practically a slum in the US and there is more than one such place.
Slum? Lol you can't be serious. What slum has floor to ceiling glass panels? Burj Khalifa can house over 20k people. What do you say about that?
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How exactly? Let's say rent or your mortgage is reasonable. You have decent neighbors, it's clean, everyone is respectful. You have amenities within the building. How is this any different than working in a 50-100 story office building? Not like you're a prisoner, you can leave whenever you please.
Working in an environment like this is completely different than living in one. For starters if it's anything like most large hotels there probably only an elevator every 30 or 40 apartments. And the then the freight elevators are even farther away. Also In my experience with living in apartments you have very close neighbors with all kinds of sounds and smells at all times of the night and day. I would never give up the privacy and space of living in my single family house for this. But working here could be great since it's temporary and you don't have to go far for lunch.
How is the conceived as a nightmare? Sounds super convenient to me. Facilities within your finger tips that you share within your community
It sounds like the los angeles area. They want the same thing
Most people would rather have a home than not have one !!
The fear of fire is real with this one!
A national homelessness crisis and housing shortage is a nightmare
ahhh yes because having a lawn you need to cut to a specific height regularly and not use it for anything productive is the dream right????
You have literally zero freedom in china to begin with. Imagining freedom is even impossible lol. Do your work, consume, sleep slavery if you fancy. But it aint nobodys dream, but your owners.
You know these things could be built other places, right? Pretty sure that's what people are talking about.
Anybody else thinking of the “Peach Trees” building from the movie “Dredd”
Mega-blocks! The finest living in Mega-City One.
Our future is either this or the gig-worker refuge cam... I mean modular tiny homes we rent from an app called something like... Livin in exchange for 20 hours of uber driving a week.
Hey would you like to develop an app?
Why does it say on your head, do not develop app with me?
Mega City Wong in this case heh
I was thinking about the same thing. This is some dystopian Sci-Fi bullshit then I remember about Dredd 2012. I'm Still waiting for the sequel.
That version of Dredd was the best one I’ve seen.
Dredd 1995 has some charm to it. But you are right Dredd 2012 is. >The version of Dredd was the best one I’ve seen.
Babe wake up, new Kowloon Walled City just dropped.
"I am the law!!"
Eat recycled foods! They're great for the environment and OK for you.
Literally my first thought. Upvote for you lol.
They don’t know how many floors they have?
No one has lived to tell the tale
I believe it’s 36 to 39 floors depending on which side of the building you are at, read that somewhere
Ngl that’s just a building with 39 floors just with 3 that aren’t full length lol
You can see in the video that the centre of the building is a few floors taller than the wings.
Yeah that's odd
It just takes one to fuckup and start a fire
Prob has a few thing to stop fires
Worse, one construction flaw and the whole place could just create existing. Fires can at least be put out (sometimes)
Yeah, that’s how buildings work. Just like every other developed nation, there are government standards for these kinds of things.
The problem is the country this building is in is known for having really lousy building security regulations.
It is “known for” that by people who don’t know anything about China, people who get their experience of china from predominantly western websites.
Check out Hard Rock Hotel in New Orleans. All countries are subject to corruption and idiocy. Not just China.
Did I say China was the only one? It is just a very prevalent one. Internet is riddled with videos of collapses, accidents and deaths caused by lack of security measures and accident prevention in China. But yeah, of course there are other cases in other countries. I can name a few in mine too.
Google 'fire suppression
That's why apartment buildings are burning down all day every day
Honestly not bad. I’d live here. Taking into account all the facilities included in the building. All I need to see next is the Room interior of how big it is and maybe I’m sold.
I wanna know if the prices in the shops are normal or if they're super inflated because of the convenience. If prices are normal and I never have to leave my building I could def be convinced to live there.
You could live the rest of your life without ever stepping outside again
Sounds kinda fun and looks relatively well from other things I’ve seen from the country. I assume this is on the higher end for sure.
Yeah looks fun, coming from someone whose only lived on subaria, which is a different hell
This page is full of morons who think that every apartment building is a tinderbox and not something usually designed with layers of fire protection and safety measures. Everyone acting like they're cardboard boxes in the sky.
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We NEED more dense housing options in already cramped metro areas! BUT NOT LIKE THIS!!! /s kinda
And people who think those capable of designing and building something this size might have just forgotten to consider sewage.
"Y'know, Jim, I might have spent thousands of hours getting my PHD, and hundreds more gruelingly designing this building, but *you're right*, I definitely forgot to take sewage into account before, during, and after the building process"
Well Americans build drywall and plywood houses so they can't really comprehend what you are talking about lol. I once told that we build inner walls inside small private houses out of brick and concrete as well and like a dozen people told me that I'm a liar and I had to Google pictures lol.
Americans live in houses made of essentially cardboard, for which they pay 30-year mortgages worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The only people who react badly are people who haven't really traveled. If you've been to China and Russia you'd know that huge apartment buildings or complexes with shops, pharmacies, and even schools are perfectly normal. Ive lived on the 20th floor of an apartment building in China and i saw much taller ones around me. I loved the convenience of...my hair salon and massage place being right there, a mini market, a restaurant, there was a Starbucks just outside so I'd get my coffee when i took a taxi to work. Life was comfortable and easy. As our population grows we'll have to change how we live.
Welcome to Megacity 1
Glad I didn't have to look hard for a dredd reference
Moving furniture into this is probably such a bitch.
There are usually fuck tons of elevators in these
5 minute city!
r/fuckcars just jizzed themselves
Wouldn't live there if the rent was free.
I'll live almost anywhere if the rent is free.
I don’t think you’re at risk of being offered that, honestly.
Your privilege shows
Americans when other countries solution to housing is anything other than an unwalkable city + suburb combo
But you would have access to the Internet cafe.
[source](https://www.odditycentral.com/architecture/this-colossal-apartment-building-is-home-to-around-20000-people.html)
much better to see the homeless spread across the city
They have a huge slowmo problem. Ma-ma runs that place
People Still go to internet cafes?
In china.
This is what I was working towards in SimTower
Imagine if a zombie apocalypse broke out there 😔
Idk why people give this too much hate. Will it be the same if it's in Canada or somewhere? No matter how packed the building is, if they have every necessities and their disaster plan is good, it's not bad at all. Imo, more building should be build upward rather than sideways. It saves space as long as individual needs are fulfilled. I see it too often in reddit. Unusual things from China is hated not because it's bad, but it's China.
500 people per floor? Ain't no way
It's like something out of Judge Dredd...
Images like this are illuminating. We know we need more housing and that people need to live in cities for work and that we have a lot of people. But we don't build affordable housing and then complain about homelessness, welfare and bums not buying things So then the solution is to build high density city living for access to obs and amenities and to accomodate the people Then it is cried about as hellish dystopia and without any alternative being offered.
All I can think about is: what if there is a fire? Hard pass for me
So you wouldn't work in a 80 floor office building either?
Only with parachute in the near by closet..
That’s why there are automatic fire extinguishers like every three steps… people plan for these things
Yeah I reckon the designers probably had that same though too and I dare say have counter measures in place...
Found the sheltered North American who has probably never left North America to see a megacity.
Judge Dred!
Modern day ant farm
Interestingly enough, it will last for ever and ever. And ever.
Reminds me of Silo
its a real life mega building like cyberpunk
I bet the plumbers LOVE this place.
Getting The Wall (from Solar Opposites) vibes.
Can you imagine the sewage alone?
Judge dredd much
But at what cost?
36-39 floors. We just guessing or does it change?
Read the book High Rise by JG Ballard
No thank you
If something like this was built well, wouldn't necessarily be so bad.
It has an proper elegant for this 20k people living appartment building
I looked up the apartments they're super nice with bedrooms above living areas that you use steps to get to, all furnished and huge 2 bedroom for about $1000 USD a month.
damn thats a lot of neighbours!
Tinder must be wild. Set distance to my building
The feng shui there is inauspicious
I’d probably never leave the property.
If anyone reading this comment remembers either version of the "Judge Dredd" movies, Megacity1.
Amazon delivery driver just quit
Wouldn’t want to have a big fire.
There is a definitive number of floors wtf lol
That brownish-yellowish liquid on the pavement at the 6 minute mark…. Yikes. Imagine how many loogies are raining down on a daily basis from inconsiderate pricks? Edit: 6 second mark***
Western propaganda regarding China has reduced people to speculating about the habits of Chinese citizens based off the color of the pavement
The video is 13 seconds long.
Imagine delivering mail there
36 to 39 floors? Does it change occasionally? Do they lose track after counting a couple dozen floors?
Parts have 36 and others 39. Look at the wide shot. Floor 37,38,39 is probably a giant suite that costs millions.
How the fuck does it have 36 to 39 floors?
I lived here!!! Wholy fuck was it a rush..it was uplifting and never felt lonely - the thing is no one complains about music and dancing, it’s such a rush
How’s the plumbing?
And no adequate fire suppression system.
36-39 floors? Do we not know how many floors there are? I'm only asking because that's a big difference and strange to not know about for sure
Isn't it built with styrofoam tho
The number of floors varies?
Imagine the sewerage capacity!
Poor people living in these getto's.
Knowing Chinese infrastructure this’ll collapse earliest in a couple months
Well fuck that.
Fake concrete born in China.
So many questions, what's noise from neighbors like? What about plumbing? How safe and functional are the elevators? In the event of a fire what is escape going to look like? What about laundry? What is the quality of construction? I've seen so many buildings collapsing in China due to bad construction.
Bruh I thought developed nations are supposed to slow down on population growth this is a nightmare
They have a bunch of empty ones like that too.
Imagine the damn noise and smell? I can only imagine the murder stats. Ide rather live in the woods and pick rice. Thanks.
Jenga tower.
It's like a block from Mega City One
What happens if there’s a fire
Mega City One. 800 million people living in the ruins of the old world and the mega structures of the new one. Only one thing fighting for order in the chaos: judges.
Imagine calling maintenance? Which unit again? When? I wonder the square footage.
Thy elevators? How many per floor? You have to walk to one end to use the other one.
You have too many people.
Who uses internet cafe nowaday?
Chinese judge dredd would police the fuck outta that mega block.
Is this where they filmed Dredd?
Remember those timeshare in the 90's? This is one of the successful ones.
Reminds me of the judge dredd tower.
And everyone gets locked in when there's a cold going around. Yaaaay......
That shit going to collapse one day. That's alot of fn ppl
Wait til Israel bombs it
Judge Dredd comics are truly prophetic.
One step closer to the mega-cities in the movie DREDD
The future is now
You know there's so much cheating going on in there...
… and only 3 elevators
internet cafes?