World's Largest Building
The New Century Global Center officially opens in China — The building
is so large it is capable housing 20 Sydney Opera Houses and is almost
three times the size of the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. The numbers are
little short of staggering; at 500 metres long, 400 metres wide and 100
metres high a 1.76-million-square-metre-mega-building has been opened
in Sichuan province in southwestern China.
The New Century Global Center, officially the largest freestanding
building in the world, took three years to complete and will house
offices, shopping malls, a Mediterranean village, a 14-screen IMAX
Cineplex and an ice-skating rink large enough to hold international
skating competitions.
The building is so large it is capable of housing the equivalent of 20
Sydney Opera Houses and is almost three times the size of the Pentagon
in Washington, D.C. At the centre of the building is a huge water park
called Paradise Island. Around 400,000 square metres of the building are
dedicated to shopping. 06 more images after the break...