In reality buildings like this have a mailroom where packages are dropped.
Correct, and the drop-off and pick-up is done through QR codes over WeChat, here is a (German) documentary about this very building showing the process:
Sorry mate, elevator is out of service because someone pulled the fire alarm
Imagine the parking required if this were in the states
I long for mixed used housing without an automobile parking requirement in an area with ubiquitous mass transit.
Certain areas of NYC is what you want. Expensive though. I lived a block from a 15 minute train ride to work at one point. Every type of food you could want within 15 minute walk. Bus up the block took you to Costco.
The building would probably extend like eight football fields underground
Something weird and amazing about China is the changes in verticality. You can walk into a building off a plaza, take the elevator DOWN ten levels…and walk out onto a street.
I remember watching some stuff about cities where it feels like you went out on street level but really you're still XX floors up.
Odds are it was a video about Chongqing. It's an engineering miracle that a city of that scale can even exist on such challenging terrain.
If you can put a city in one building that beats driving in snow
If there is tofu dreg in the construction, the architect and builders are gonna charged with a genocide. (if building collapse, thousands die)
And this is not because American propaganda or whatever. My family is from mainland China and my mother told me about all those tofu-dreg stuff. To be very clear, this is not the people's fault, its not individuals being "lazy", its a systematic issue. There's so much corruption and bribery.
Food safety is another one of the big issues. For a supposedly "socialist" government, they sure are doing quite a lot regulating food, by "a lot" I mean jack shit.
I'm suspecting if my older brother is being an asshole because he lived there like approximately 5 years longer there and suffered some food poisoning (like maybe lead) or something and totally has zero empathy. Parents are also shitty. I mean there has got to be lead or something.
(No I did not live in one of these mega buildings lol, mine was more like a 10 story building, no elevators, lackluster of safety barriers. I hate that place lol, so much bad memories of my abusive older brother.)
"800 million people living in the ruin of the old world and the mega structures of the new one..."
We have builds like this, but not as big in Taiwan. They almost always have an area downstairs that the food is placed so people can come down and get it.
I imagine they also have the same thing in China.
D'you place the order before or after heading downstairs?
I order first, then wait until the UberEATS or food panda person says they are close and take the elevator down to get it. Usually I take down my trash at the same time since the trash area is close to the main area.
We need this in North America if we ever want to solve the housing crisis tbh. I'm talking Soviet-style, grey concrete commieblocks. Yes the buildings are ugly, probably lack amenities, cheaply constructed and not well maintained, but we desperately need cheap, dense housing if we're going to bring down the costs. Building more luxury Manhattan condos and suburban single family abominations does nothing to bring down housing prices.
We don't even necessarily need those, fucking row townhouses like old Chicago or New York would be a massive improvement in space usage and density alone. Just modify the design to have a garage in the back and make the alleyway larger. Hell you could narrow the front road if you do it right.
3-5 story housing with no parking works in France/Europe. No elevators/pools is huge cost savings. Room for cars ridiculously expensive where land is ridiculously expensive. Bikeable/walkable communities FTW. 5th story units would be cheaper, but young people need cheaper.
That’s how you create undesirable neighborhoods which eventually turn into ghettos. Many cities in Europe tried that and many of those neighborhoods quickly became unsafe and derelict. Like many of the banlieus in Paris or the Bijlmer in Amsterdam. Because people who eventually have the means to move out will leave asap. Nobody wants to settle in such a neighborhood. So only the poor and desperate stay. Which in turn means local business will leave as well.
The problem is that, for the property owning class, the unaffordability of homes is broadly a feature and not a bug.
How do people live like this. Id jump.
Its sad. There's enough land on earth for every adult to have 1.5 acres.
We just need to wipe out all the animals and forests first, but we're on track for everyone to have their own real soon tho.
If you want your 1.5 acres, you better not complain that the bus comes twice a day and the only doctor in the area retired 3 years ago.
Bus?
They're saying you'll be living in a remote place with no regular bus
You can have 1.5 acres of Sahara desert. I'll pass...
20 to 30 thousand? That’s a pretty big margin for error.
They probably don't know the actual occupancy. Some apartments might be empty. Some might be designed for 3 people but only 1 lives there. 30k is probably the design capacity
If the design capacity was 25000, it would mean that an assumption that 20% possible error would get you that range.
That seems like a decent "outside approximation" range. Yeah some 3 person apartments will have only 1 person, but some 1 persons will have 3
High density housing bad and dystopian. Homelessness good. Now build more single family homes with lawns pls. /s
Low-rise to mid-rise high-density housing, sure, but high-rises are bad, yes. They cost more to maintain, they either prevent adequate sunlight at lower levels or need to be spaced apart wide enough to defeat the point, and they tend to be worse for social isolation and anti-social behaviour.
Got nothing on Kowloon. That was a marvel. Scary, probably deadly, but a marvel nonetheless.
fire hazard
This is dumb. You can't let delivery guys/gals up into the hallways unaccompaioned in an apartment building this size. You have to go down to the front door
Betcha the delivery guy delivers for one or more from many takeout food spots that are probably located inside the building itself.
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