Category: buildings
Shanghai Expo to Use Food Scraps for Power
Tweet Apparently the Zero-carbon hall at this years upcoming Shanghai World Expo, plans to use left over food to generate electricity. The Zero Carbon hall will not only utilize the power of leftover hamburgers and Chou Tofu, but will also generate power via wind turbines and solar cells placed on its roof. The organisers are [...]
Chinese Engineer Builds Worlds First Alien Hotel
Tweet Jin Fan, a 70 year old engineers from Liaoning Province, has long been a believer in UFO’s and alien life and actually formed the Dalian UFO Research Society way back in 1984. Tweet
China Imposes Illegal Battery Crackdown
Tweet The Chinese government are cracking down on illegal lead acid battery makers after it was found than 138 people at a village near Taizhou had suffered ill effects from a nearby battery plant. Tweet
Chongqing Set To Build Digital City Gates
Tweet Chongqing was once surrounded by 17 great gates which were built during the Song and Ming dynasties, however due to various reasons all but 2 of the ancient gate still exist. Tweet
58 ‘Quit’ Apple’s China Factory After Being Poisoned!
Tweet Last week Apple published details of how more than 100 Chinese factory workers were poisoned after coming in to contact with the chemical N-Hexane. The Alcohol substitute chemical used to clean iPhone screen, caused paralysis in at least 101 (confirmed) workers at factory in Suzhou owned by United Win Technology, are manufacturer of iPhone [...]
Apple Announces Huge Store Plans For Shanghai
Tweet Looking at Apple’s latest profits, and judging by where a large chunk of those profits come from, China incase you don’t check out the link, it makes perfect sense when we here Apple is planning to open at least 25 new stores in the mainland by the end of 2012. More details after the [...]
Beijing To Get a 3D, 4D and even 5D Entertainment Complex
Tweet If all goes to plan, the construction of a new multimedia entertainment complex costing more than 10 Billion Yuan ($1 Billion) will begin on October 1st in the Tongzhou district of Beijing. The complex will get 36 cinema screen which will show movies with either a 3D or 4D viewer experience and will also [...]
Jet Powered Fire Truck Video
Tweet We imagine China’s jet equipped fire truck got plenty of use over the Spring Festival holiday, blasting 4 tons of water every minute from it’s 3 Million Yuan ($400,000) jet water cannon. Take a brief look at the Jet Powered Fire truck in action during a training exercise after the jump. Tweet
New Year Fireworks Ignite Chinese Hotel Blaze
Tweet The Sheraton Shenyang Lido Hotel, the tallest building in Shenyang, the capital of Liaoning Province caught on fire during a Chinese New Year firework display. The 20 storey hotel is also one of the tallest buildings in the city meaning fire fighters had difficulty tackling the blaze. Around 50 guests were evacuated, but there [...]
Space Age Capsule Hotel Opening In Shanghai
Tweet I remember when I was at high school and I first saw pictures of Japanese Capsule Hotels. At the time the idea of staying in a 2.2 meter long 1.1 meter wide box stacked upon other paying hotel goers seemed like an awesome idea, but unfortunately I’ve never had the chance. However, if the [...]
China Working On Advanced Fire Engines
Tweet With the blaze in Shanghai still fresh in our minds, China’s state radio has reported that Beijing Fire Dept. and Sany Group are working on a new generation of fire truck to tackle high rise fires. Tweet
Wuhan Building Worlds Third Tallest Skyscraper
Tweet When building a huge tower who on earth decides ‘I know! I want my city to be known as the place where the 3rd largest tower is!’ Really? The third largest? Anyhow, a groundbreaking ceremony took play in Wuhan City in Central Hubei on Wednesday where the 606 meter 30 billion Yuan ($4.5 billion) [...]
Shanghai Starts Construction Of 121 Storey Tower
Tweet Construction has started on a 121 storey tower in downtown Shanghai. Once completed the tower will tower (oh, dear) 632 meters above the ground and share the same skyline with the Shanghai World Financial Center and Jinmao Tower. The Shanghai Tower will is planned to partially open and operational by 2012 and is expected [...]
China Building Space Theme Park At Real Spaceport
Tweet China is planning to generate interest in space sciences with a younger audience by opening a Space themed amusement park at the Wenchang Satellite Launch Center. Tweet
Beijing ‘Egg’ House Has Got To Go!
Tweet The young Beijing designer we reported on early, who built his own bamboo ‘egg’ home has been ordered to remove the eco dwelling by the Urban Management Officers, or Chengguan. Officials of Beijing’s Haidian District state that Dai lacks the official approval for living in a public area despite having lived there quite happily [...]
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