I imagine with that many people there are restaurants and services within.
Kowloon city at home
Does it have schools and shops too?
This might be better than most apartments I’ve lived in tbh, so it might work if looking out of the window and having the inescapable trap of modern life hit you in the face isn’t a deal breaker for you
That third picture is either warped or the structural soundness of the building is questionable.
I think the balcony edge curves out into the room. The second pic from the loft bedroom kinda/sorta looks like it. Looks like crap with that straight railing though.
For a moment I thought the washing machine was outside on the balcony in picture 6!
It all looks so short, like are the ceilings really low or is the camera just being held by a giant?
Is that a refrigerator in the living room, and a tv over the stove?
It’s called an open floor plan.
| Total Buildings | 2 | | --------------- | ----- | | Total units | 1540 | | Total partings | 2046 |
I saw the same thing. That’s almost 20 people per unit.
If I search the name, half the articles say 20k, other half 30k. Honestly, I have serious doubts about both figures…
Snopes has an article on it, and even they couldn’t come up with a solid number.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/china-apartment-building-residents/
I think the capacity is 30k, but 20k people currently live there
25K then?
I counted 37 floors. If there are 37 apartments per floor since the building looks square-ish (those would be some small apartments) and there are 2 rows (one on each side of the building), that is less than 3k apartments. If each had a family of four, that is less then 12k.
This is China, their apartments are casket size. They also do time sharing where one person sleeps while the other is at work and then they swap.
It doesn’t look to me like the kind of a building that would have this, but sure, maybe you could barely reach 20k is you squeeze people in like sardines.
This isn’t true for anything built outside the absolute inner cities, which this clearly isn’t,
They aren’t massive, but they’re plenty reasonably sized and aren’t “casket-sized”
someone posted the listing here, the units are 80m^2, which is 861sq ft, that is nowhere close casket size
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- P1: 37 floors
- P2: square building
- C1: 37 apartments per floor
duh
30 thousand people used to live here.
Now it’s a ghost town.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the numbers were off by an order of magnitude. 1500 units with on average 2 people works out to 3000. Looking at the pictures, that feels like a more realistic number.
That’s about 50 units per floor. Which does seem a bit low from looking at the pic. But 1000 per floor (to give you the 30k) seems way too high, unless the units are the size of broom closets.
Could be it’s own city.
its*
High precision cannon modified to launch pizza boxes … then just park it about half a kilometer in front of the building.
- Launch a ball of dough against a designated target at the correct speed for it to flatten out on impact
- Borrow modern artillery targeting systems so that a ball of toppings impacts the same spot a moment afterwards
- Fire a HESH round to cook it
Communications personnel receive order … they quickly process it to the gun crew
Gun crew load first round: … 15TH FLOOR!!! APARTMENT 1567!!! KITCHEN WINDOW SECOND TO RIGHT!!! … FIRE!!!
Gun recoils … crew prepare second round: … SAUCE!!! … PEPPERONI!!! HAM!!! PEPPERS!!! ANCHOVIES!!! … CHEESE!!! EXTRA CHEESE!!! … (prepared round is loaded into gun) … FIRE!!!
Gun recoils … crew load HESH round: … COMPLETE THE ORDER!!! … FIRE!!!
Gun crew grows silent for a moment … there is a distant explosion of an apartment completely blow out on the 15th floor.
Sure, they blew a hole in the building, but the pizza was perfectly cooked, so mission accomplished.
Charred remains of an apartment, body parts and bone fragments all over the place, broken glass, shattered furniture, lots of smoke and some fire, water works spraying water everywhere … and in the midst of the carnage is a perfectly cooked pizza sitting on the floor.
Tactical ballistic pizza? Count me in. Sounds reckless and delicious.
Like the guy that cooked a chicken by slapping it repeatedly, somebody needs to see what speeds firing a ball of dough against a wall will get it crispy brown.
How did I end up on NCD again?
My first thought was this
Unfortunately this is not currently working (apparently QC itself is currently down, according to Cloudflare), but wow, I haven’t thought about QC in quite some time. Thanks for the memories!
Yeah, the connection is intermittent right now. He’s taking December off this year.
One could easily find oneself envious.
It was the pizza from space storyline that I linked.
Makes sense, thanks for elaborating!
Now imagine a fire breaking out 😬
that’s why fire suppression systems exist
Am I the only one who worries first about trash collection day than pizza delivery (wildly unpopular in China btw)?
I’d assume the building has a trash collection chute. My old apartment building had one.
I think they have collection centres (within the building), chutes were more of an American thing (“don’t think about the trash” mentality).
Definitely not just an American thing.
Nah, they were where I live. Now they are closed due to sanitary concerns or something. In old, post soviet building I lived they removed chutes and turned bottom level (where the big trash containers were) into expanded lift, so disabled people could ride all the way to ground level.
And if they don’t, I’m sure that they’d have pickup schedules like any town would.
I was more thinking about the day they take the containers out, and the trucks rotation. If they do it once a week, imagine the smell and how many trucks they need…
So this is what Cyberpunk 2077 based its apartment complexes on
I found some apartments in that building advertised on some random website for immigrants and those don’t look half bad.
For your consideration;
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tofu-dreg_project
The lack of quality would be hilarious if if wasn’t so fucking dangerous for people.
Food is delivered by pneumatic tubes.
Enjoy your pizza all scrambled and your soda is gonna go through nuclear fission 💥
Oh yes, the LHC: Large Hotdog Collider.
Probably has its own Pizza Hut. Delivery guys don’t need cars.
That’s way more than the population of the whole town I live in.
I have in-laws living in China, and honestly - it’s a lot easier to navigate those sorts of high rises than you might think.
Most residential buildings I’ve visited have lots of dedicated lifts, so only 2 apartments per floor share one lift. So you would only need to provide something like: Tower 37, Floor 19, Apartment 2.
The Chinese love their delivery apps, too - their drivers (technically scooter riders) are very used to this.
Now the city of Chongqing is a whole seperate matter, that place is an M. C. Escher drawing in real life!
how can people stay sane if the numbers go up in a predictable fashion? My American brain cannot comprehend the horrors associated with repeating patterns in housing style and numbering.
North America, and Americans in particular, love to claim everything big. Big restaurants, big malls, big cars, big highways, big buildings, big country.
Except efficiency is somehow forgotten. So you get 12 lane highways that are constantly clogged with traffic. 100 floor office buildings that have lineups at the elevator between 8-9 and 17-1730. Strip malls that you have to get to by car even if you live next door. And transit that gets you nowhere.
We must live in different Americas.
There are 4 or 5 different Americas, maybe more.
The American brain should be perfectly adapted to this sort of scenario! Just think it like one of those suburban cookie-cutter HOA developments, but vertical!
As for counting with multiple numbers, y’all love to do that already! feet & inches, pounds & ounces etc.
Hey you’re thatKamGuy!
