It looks like how I place buildings in Tropico.
“Yeah, I’ll just dump a bunch of hotels in this big open space… oh, I guess I have to turn this one to fit”
looks like Minecraft.
I’d love to see more buildings like this for apartments! Scaling vertically but still getting outdoor space that isn’t roofed by the next balcony up.
Photos like this def make me wish Lemmy had the resources to upload nice high-res images
Hainan resort
BF4 flashbacks
Are there cool rows of buildings like this in the US? I always see these and its beijing, hong kong, singapore etc.
Regulations are probably tighter outside China, can’t slap together a skyscraper in 3 months that’ll fall apart in a year like China can.
A classic example of class based architecture.
Notice how nearly every single one of the balcony’s is overlooked by the one above? Think about what that actually results in.
Have you not noticed how typically a more classic balcony can’t be spied on or even easily observed by the balcony’s directly overhead? It’s more private.
Instead however, these balconies throw that away. For the large chunk of your given space you are exposed to all of the balconies above you. Not even just your 1 neighbor up, but their neighbor, that neighbor’s neighbor, you’re in total observational view of everyone “above” you, but you cant see them.
So the person at the very top can sit and watch everyone below in total privacy, while the person at around the halfway mark is on total display to everyone all the way up.
Only when you hit around the halfway mark does this issue go away, its very odd design.
Hope you aren’t someone who likes to suntan in piece in the comfort of your own property…
It looks like individual balconies are on the flat sides of the building.
Being in China I hope it’s built to some sort of earthquake proof code…
Being in China it won’t matter because it’s fuckin empty
Wait, really?
I always assumed China had these massive complexes because of the population density.
Chinese people (the ordinary ones, not the rich) have almost nowhere to invest their money somewhat secure because of capital control and hard control of the stock market by the CCP.
Coupled with a culturally ingrained appreciation for real estate, this led to a huge housing boom - it’s the only viable investment and there’s the expectation that young men own real estate. And this turned into a huge bubble where shoddy, unusable buildings are built in hastily “developed” areas that will never house people.
This bubble was about to burst, but since that could endanger the CCP, they managed to turn that into a rapid deflation instead.
No, frequently chinese devlopments are built far in advance of the population moving there. There are multiple fully built modern ghost cities. That may not be the case here in Hainan, though. I haven’t looked into it.
Thats the intention, but a lot of buildings are getting half-finished, then sold when they lose funding… just to be demolished so they can start all over again.
Yes and no. There are a lot of places in China that are high population density but also hundreds of completely empty skyscrapers.
Kinda like how in the US you have entire neighborhoods completely empty built for the sole purpose of artificially raising house prices in the area.
Ahh yes, the Nonupletree hotel.
Yeah, but are they making the mortgage payments on it?
They look like ticks
Final Fantasy XIV predicted this.
Is there any particular reason for the tree design? I am sure they could have chosen something a little more interesting.
