The construction of such a large project - which attracted scorn from environmental activists - would disrupt this pristine area of Changsha.Īdditional images and information can be found in the Database file linked below. Since construction halted, the Sky City site has taken on a new purpose: locals have been using the waterlogged 2.6-hectare foundations to raise fish. Daze Lake is a biologically diverse wetland, the last of its kind in the city, where many bird species have also nested. And China needs some promotion for it´s architecture. Its been less than a year since Asia Briefing visited Changsha, the capital of Hunan province, but in that time the skyline has changed dramatically with the construction of Mini Sky City, a 57. Also located in Changsha, the residential toweris now the tallest prefabricated building in the world. Media don´t care about hundreds of 300m+ buildings, but just about No1. Their ' Mini Sky City' project, at a still-impressive 57-storeys, completed in 2015 was constructed at a rate of three floors per day. Though it seems like an unrealistic exercise, something out of a distant future, Broad Group has proven that prefabricated skyscrapers are indeed possible. Broad Group claimed the megatall skyscraper would be completed in only 90 days. Plans called for much of the tower's critical components to be fabricated off site, transported to the property, and assembled quickly.

It was to be a record-breaking development not only in sheer height, but construction technique.

Dubbed Sky City, the 220-storey tower would have topped Dubai's Burj Khalifa by 10 metres and include schools, a hospital, helipads, and apartments housing 30,000 people. The project site, which falls within a rare wetland, is now one of 20 waters to be permanently protected.īroad Sustainable Building, a subsidiary of China's Broad Group, originally proposed the 838-metre tower. After safety and regulatory issues stalled the project just days after construction had started, the Chinese province of Hunan has ditched plans to build the world's tallest tower in Changsha.

Mini sky city