At what point does a building become a city? At 1.7 million square meters, the New Century Global Center lands somewhere between the two.
New Century, which has been under construction since spring of 2012 (which isn’t long, for a building of this size), opened officially on July 1. The 18-story, glass-and-steel frame structure sits above a new subway station in Chengdu, a Sichuan province city of more than 14 million and one of China’s fastest-growing megalopolises.
via Gizmodo
July 8, 2013
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