China’s architecture miracles add glamour to world records
By Zhang Jinruo from People’s Daily
- Puqian Bridge – China’s first cross-sea bridge that spans a geological fault line
Crossing over the Puqian Bay in the northeastern part of China’s Hainan province, Puqian Bridge is built over seismic faults, with the highest level of seismic resistance fortification and the highest level of designed wind speed in China. It is the first large-span bridge of China that crosses over a geological fault line.
Stretching 3.8 kilometers, the bridge has a designed speed of 80 kilometers per hour.
The aerial photos show a bird view of the first large-span bridge of China that crosses over a geological fault line. (Photo: ‘CFP)
Stitched photo taken on November 3, 2018 shows Puqian Bridge under construction in south China’s Hainan Province. The closure of the main bridge of Puqian Bridge spanning a geological fault line was finished on that day, marking the basic completion of the main body of the project. (Photo: Xinhua News Agency)
- Raffles City Chongqing – world’s first horizontal skyscraper
The world’s first “horizontal skyscraper” is about to be completed in China’s Chongqing municipality, as a huge rooftop corridor is being constructed on a group of skyscrapers. Stretching over 300 meters, the enormous glass-walled structure connects four buildings of the eight-unit skyscraper cluster at the 60th floor, turning the architectural complex into a three-dimensional “sail”.
What astonishes people’s eyes is more than the magnificent appearance. The building has the world’s highest sky bridge linking the most number of towers. The rest four skyscrapers of the architectural complex are also connected by smaller sky bridges, which enable people to walk through all of the eight buildings without going to the ground floor.
“Chinese workers have nearly completed a 2.7-billion-pound mega commercial complex with an incredible ‘horizontal skyscraper’ almost 1,000 ft across the top.” Daily Mail wowed the landmark in an article.
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