http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r5/z0rgg/other/20071209_e64e631142e3bd7e7cd3JQBEP5.jpg

http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r5/z0rgg/other/paspx-1.jpg


http://news.jsinfo.net/jiangsu/2007/11/447303.shtml
http://www.thmz.com/col23/col89/2007/11/2007-11-23189256.html
http://forum.xinhuanet.com/detail.jsp?id=49001824&agMode=1

This triple tower project is located at Huaxi town (famous for being China's richest village), within the limits of Wuxi city. 200,000m2

Google translate:
328 meters 74 of the farmers in Huaxi Village Apartment Construction
2007-11-23 08:34:56　　　来源：江南晚报 2007-11-23 08:34:56 Source: Jiangnan Evening


　　无锡农民拆迁安置房的建筑高度将再次被刷新。 The Wuxi farmers removal and resettlement of residents of the building height will again be updated. 11月22日，从市国土资源系统管理创新论坛上获悉，投资10亿，总建筑面积20万平方米，楼高328米、74层(包括地下两层)的农民公寓不久前在华西村开工建设。 November 22, from the land resources management system innovation forum that investment 1 billion, with a total construction area of 200,000 square meters, height 328 m, 74 layers (including two underground) farmers in Huaxi Village apartment recently started construction. 据悉，该建筑公共功能完善健全。 According to reports, the function of the integrity of public architecture. 一至四层为裙房，功能为入口大堂，商场和可容1500人的大宴会厅及辅助用房。 One to four for裙房, functions as the entrance hall, shopping malls and large capacity 1500 people banquet hall and the auxiliary space. 五层以上为可供770余户村民居住的公寓，共3幢塔楼，可节约土地近30万平方米。 For more than five for 770 while households villagers living apartments, a total of three towers, saving land nearly 300,000 square meters. 其中5层为供区域住户交往的公共活动空中花园，顶部球体功能为旋转餐厅，展示厅及观光厅。 Five of the households for the regional exchanges for the public activities sky gardens, the top sphere function for rotating restaurant, and the Exhibition Hall, the Office of Tourism. 顶部还设有直升机停机坪。 The top also has helipad.

　　无锡人均耕地仅0．55亩，为江苏13个地级市中最少。 Wuxi only 0.55 acres of land per capita, Jiangsu 13 cities at prefectural level in the least. 高水平的节约集约是拓展发展空间的惟一选择。 High levels of savings intensive expand the scope of development is the only choice. 建设高容积率、低密度的农民公寓，是无锡节约集约用地的创新举措。 Building high-volume rates, low density apartment farmers, Wuxi saving intensive land use is the innovative initiatives. 市国土部门提供的最新数据显示，到目前为止，全市累计建设多层、高层和小高层农民拆迁安置房超过3500万平方米，节约土地超过10万亩，在全国领先。 City's departments to provide the latest data show that, so far, the city's total building a multi-level, high-level and high-level small farmers removal and resettlement of residents Housing more than 35 million square meters, saving land more than 10 million mu of land, in the country.

　　市国土局人士介绍． City Land Bureau introduced. 上世纪末，无锡提出让农民向城镇集中，开始建设多层农民拆迁安置房。 At the end of the century, Wuxi to allow farmers to cities or towns, farmers began demolition of multi-storey building of the resettlement. 随着节约集约用地的不断深入，无锡出台了“城乡企业建设用地坚持高容积率、高密度，城乡住宅用地坚持高容积率、低密度，城乡所有建设用地坚持高投入、高产出、少用地、多产出”的用地原则，并采用倒逼、激励、问责三大机制强化用地管理。 Along with saving the continuous deepening of intensive land use, Wuxi, the "land for the building of urban and rural enterprises adhere to the high volume rate, high-density, urban and rural residential land adhere to the high volume rate, low-density urban and rural areas, all construction sites adhere to the high input, high output, less space, more outputs, "the principle of land, and use倒逼, encouraging, strengthening accountability mechanisms for the three management. 向天要地，农民拆迁安置房开始越造越高，长欣公寓28层的纪录保持还不久，蠡湖人家30层的农民公寓就已经搬迁入住，如今周新苑33层的安置房即将封顶，华西村74层的农民公寓又开工建设。 The sky was going to, the farmers began the removal and resettlement of residents making higher long-Xin apartment 28 of the record also soon蠡湖others 30 of the farmers had been relocated apartment occupancy, now weeks新苑33 of the upcoming resettlement cap , Huaxi Village 74 of the farmers apartment and started construction. 高层、小高层的农民安置房在无锡随处可见。 High-level, high-level small farmers in the Wuxi resettlement can be seen everywhere. 据悉，位于华西村的这幢农民公寓，占地面积30亩，可节约用地300亩，工程预计3-5年完成，建成后华西中心村的300户农民将全部搬进这幢大楼。 It is learned that, in many of the farmers in Huaxi Village apartment footprint of 30 acres, economical use of land 300 acres, the project is expected three to five years to complete, Huaxi center after completion of 300 farmers village will be all moved into this building. (戴琳) (DAI Lin)

are they sure, that they want to build this?

I mean, it looks a bit strange....

^^can't blame them....its farmer's apartment.

its built in the country that counts as part of BIG wuxi, NOT in the urban wuxi

where else in the world would you have a supertall in the country lol :p

Kitsch project imo. But hey, how many rural towns can afford a supertall over there? :D

you mean they want to build a 328m supertall on the countryside?

yeah..right beside the farmland dont you see from the renders :P ??

it's a strange building, but if someone want to live there...

Now there are some economically healthy farmers in Wuxi...! It would fit in Shanghai or any other major city.. but in the country?

do you really think they are gong to call it the "farmer's apartment"?

yeah thats the direct translation from the chinse name

GO WUXI!

I'd be impressed the day the farmers in western China can get a building like this in the countryside...everything is happening along the coastal regions.

^^the coastal regions in china is more developed than the inland regions for obvious reasons...

There isn't any countryside in any western sense of the word anywhere near Wuxi. 'Countryside' between Shanghai and Nanjing basically means a row of fields, a row of flats, row of fields ... This is pretty far-fetched, but it's less far-fetched there than it would be anywhere else. But do they have to build it so ugly?

wow... ball at top!! cool!! :cheers:

WHAT IDEIT? WANTS 2 BUILD A 1000+ footer in a place surrounded by nothing??

wow!! is beautiful!!

Farmer's Apartments in Wuxi... Blimey :hilarious

Is it going to be bustled by cow-made methane?

WHAT IDEIT? WANTS 2 BUILD A 1000+ footer in a place surrounded by nothing??

well sorry, this isnt Dubai, they can't afford start building skyskrapers by hundreds all at once :bash: :nuts:

"armer's Apartments in Wuxi
Is it going to be bustled by cow-made methane?

Dirty Job- Poo Pot Maker:lol:

I don't see this being built, but it really is cool. Looks like an arcology from SC2000!

weird name but the design is cool :)

Looks nice for the most part, but I'm not sure about that globe...

lol.
what about those smaller traditional style buildings in the first rendering? are they gonna be built? They look interesting.

Both design and purportedly name are weird, but hey, I like the pagoda-like apartments on the background! :)

OMG! Such a high skyscraper, just in the middle of nowhere!

makes me want to burst out laughing.
:lol::lol:

I would conjecture that this is being built to get the farmers to live in the apartments and demolish all the farmhouses to get more land to do planting of crops.

I love the design. The concept is interesting - it's kind of like replacing a farming village surrounded with farming fields with a smaller floorplate farming skyscraper with many more fields surrounding it. Interesting concept and I would approve of it as an experiment to see what happens but in this case I disapprove because of the kitsch ball sitting on top of the buildings - i mean, there's nothing to see but lots of fields! I like the decks all the way up which would maybe act as outdoor plazas as well as bridges linking the towers and community together. Interesting.

Id prefer a spire over a globe, but hey, whatever floats those farmer boats.

wow, farmer resettlement apartments. These are actually gonna be free?

not sure about the name....

it is not in Wuxi city, but in a village of Jiangyin city that belongs to Wuxi

oh my dear Lord....according to wikipedia Huaxi has 328,700 pop. and Jiangyin has 110,400 pop and they are considered villages......

Wuxi is 1-grade city, Jiang yin is the 2-grade city of Wuxi, while Huaxi is a village of Jiang yin, however, it is one of the richest villages in China, it is really big, but still taken as a village.

Farmer's Apartment? strange name but it attracts attention. Is it consisted of 3 seperate towers with skybridges?

this building is only 12KM from my home. can you image a super tall in a village? this is build for farmers!

oh my dear Lord....according to wikipedia Huaxi has 328,700 pop. and Jiangyin has 110,400 pop and they are considered villages......

acutally, huaxi village is a part of huaxi town. jiangyin has 110400 pop, but still a very small city in china.

i've been to this village several times, they build villas for every family for free, and in 2002, they send every family a car for free. the villager's income reach 30000 usd a year. lol
by the way, this is an good example for chinese communisum ideal.

This is a very interesting project.

I agree that the globe has to go though.

is this for people who needed to be relocated because of the three gorges dam?

is this for people who needed to be relocated because of the three gorges dam?

nope. huaxi village is so rich, the expanding eara by eating neightbour village for new land. they demolish the house of the new-join village,and build this supertall.

well sorry, this isnt Dubai, they can't afford start building skyskrapers by hundreds all at once :bash: :nuts:



Dirty Job- Poo Pot Maker:lol:

What if they can? :O. Not every place is inferior to the US/Dubai ya know. China is growing like one mother...:banana:

so this has beeen approved? when are they gna build it?

liked it.Liked its name and design. I hope they build it.

Is this for real? :nuts:

from my window i can see this tower if it is rising. hehe.

Quite unusual design!

Quite unusual design!
unusual design, even more unusual location for a supertall.

these are farmers houses that stretch for about 100 miles between Hangzhou and Shanghai. If youve seen
them in person the sheer scale of the devlopment is amazing, it basically looks like one vast urban suburb rather than
countryside. It took me over 2 hrs to get through it by train.

All the houses have steep roofs, turrets, towers and even onion domes, by the thousand. Its one of the most amazing 'urban'
things Ive seen - seriously if anyones in Shanghai, take the train to Hangzhou and look out of your right window...


Theyre all built for free by the progressive local councils:


http://movingcities.org/wordpress/wp-content/photos/hgh_urban/080211-hgh-top-0038.jpg
http://movingcities.org/wordpress/wp-content/photos/hgh_urban/080211-hgh-urban-0045.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2274/2433264457_417397c1ef.jpg?v=0

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/186/466052157_858e3c1651.jpg?v=0 http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3148/2651708106_8896cbc30e.jpg


http://www.vetmed.iastate.edu/current_students/international/images/china_images/FarmersHouses.jpg


http://k43.pbase.com/o4/48/462648/1/61297382.HangzhouCountrysideScene.jpg http://static1.bareka.com/photos/medium/9784432.jpg

http://image06.webshots.com/6/2/28/31/75322831vMOTqA_ph.jpg


http://movingcities.org/wordpress/wp-content/photos/hgh_urban/080211-hgh-top-0035.jpg

http://movingcities.org/wordpress/wp-content/photos/hgh_urban/080211-hgh-top-0033.jpg


http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2285/1634389295_5441258685.jpg?v=0


From the air you can start to see the scale of it, for 150 km

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/55/134635523_b8d3b08558.jpg

http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee268/KuaiYu2011/hzc4.jpg

http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/5977/hangzhou1ca5.jpg


by satellite...

#zoom in up and down:

http://www.wikimapia.org/#lat=30.472...13&l=0&m=s&v=1

and they say only the US have ugly suburbs

^seriously you need to see it to believe it. Some stretches are made up of hundreds of pagodas, others are thousands of onion domes, others thousands of turrets and fairytale towers. When I first saw them I thought - tacky. But after a while, the sheer scale of it all amazed me, it just never seemed to end.
Its one thing building a development of pomo rooftops and balconies and towers, its another having a whole 'city' themed that way. A bit like Athens brutalism - boring on its singular own, glorious in its whole.#

Moreover theyre not suburbs but 'farmland'. Chinese suburbs look very different.

Most of what I saw was like this, but with midnight blue Russian domes, as far as the horizon:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2274/2433264457_417397c1ef.jpg?v=0

did i see pearl tower on top of it ? :D

begad youre right :D

looks like being a chinese farmer isn't that bad after all! thnx spliff fairy

More renders
http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg64/z0rgggg/others/5.jpg

http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg64/z0rgggg/others/6.jpg

It looks better with every new rendering

i dont get how this tower can get so many negative responses, i rly like it.

I like the idea of this.

And thanks for the info re the Shanghai - Hangzhou area ... I may be in Shanghai early next year so may try to check this out.

Amazing, really hope this gets built.

The apartment looks like the middle section of the Oriental Pearl TV Tower

http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg64/z0rgggg/wx-03G.jpg

http://www.khulsey.com/travel/shanghai_pearl-tower_8.jpeg

I think it would even look better without the globe on top.
However, it is cray to build in that rural location.

Amazing, really hope this gets built.

The apartment looks like the middle section of the Oriental Pearl TV Tower

http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg64/z0rgggg/wx-03G.jpg

http://www.khulsey.com/travel/shanghai_pearl-tower_8.jpeg


the ball copy from the Oriental Pearl TV Tower!! haha... so cool :banana:

^^ yea but also the connections between three pillars.

Posted by hot-simon.
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wow, they are building this... :uh:

:cucumber:

Incredible.... But am I wrong or are they constructing this in the middle of nowhere?

^^ Yup. First rural supertall ever?

Incredible.... But am I wrong or are they constructing this in the middle of nowhere?Yes, that's why it is called 'Farmers Apartments' :lol:

wow. i didn't know that it started to rise already. :okay:

It's for the future, when giant autonomous machines do all the harvesting and farmers, like everyone else, will be upper class people :bowtie:

so they are serious...:nuts:

wooww its actually getting constructed!!! I thought this project would never happen

it won't be in the middle of nowhere. Farmers fields in the 'rural' areas outside nearby Hangzhou now look like this, the state basically built the farmers highrises to live in, before it was made up of thousands of hamlets or lines of huts by the fields. As you can see they still work their land as farmers, they just live in bigger places with mod cons now. Also if you think about it, these are the parents of the hundreds of millions of new city dwellers:

http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/5977/hangzhou1ca5.jpg

it seems a like a project where they just simply didnt know what to do with the money left over.

Wew..they are serious of building this project... :nuts:

This is the only way to save the farm land.

so this is a place where farmers live? so houses can be taken away for a little more farmland?? its cool, but it sounds unnecessary. As a skyscraper addict i wont complain though =P

I should have been a bit taller so it appears slender and no that massive... Design is OK.

More renders
http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg64/z0rgggg/others/5.jpg

http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg64/z0rgggg/others/6.jpg

FARMER'S APARTMENTS, what an irony... :lol:

lol, the name is a paradox

+1 ^^

but those are kickass renders. :okay:

these are one of the richest farmers in China, and they build this for new homes for themselves and also as an investment,cuz this giant tower is consist of three towers with different use, one is for their living, one is like a hotel and another one is for office i think.

4 tower join:scouserd:

+ height

- it's so kitsch
- way to fat
- name :)

This beautiful project, but I do not like the end of the towers, or auction that has been given to the design.
Van works very well, that will see impressive.

i can see this building when it finished.... i guess.10KM from my house.

Can anyone show me the exact location of this building in Google Earth or Maps?

i can see this building when it finished.... i guess.10KM from my house.
What is the area like? rural fields or semi-urban farming communities? Or proper townscape?

What is the area like? rural fields or semi-urban farming communities? Or proper townscape?

it's in rural eara, but village inhabitant income reach 40000USD a year, it's an industrial village, produce steel ,textile,etc.
i'll show google map if i have some time.

I'm new to these thread. And from what I understand these is in the farm land. I should of known by the name.

I don't see this being built, but it really is cool. Looks like an arcology from SC2000!

thats what i was thinkin lol

here are some pics of huaxi village
http://www.lvyou114.com/member/4765/sigthphoto/2007-9-8-8-28-1.jpg
http://hiphotos.baidu.com/louts_white/pic/item/bb820123b22c155693580703.jpg
http://www.nygz.xhedu.sh.cn/WicreBlog/images/www.nygz.xhedu.sh.cn/userludl/756/r_DSCN2579.JPG
http://www.cnzozo.com/updata/allimg/200707/1_20170927.jpg
http://www.lyheb.com/UploadPhotos/2007922142042884.jpg

I located oliver999's first picture: here (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&sll=31.615966,120.458908&sspn=0.257867,0.606995&ie=UTF8&ll=31.833032,120.425102&spn=0.00402,0.009484&t=h&z=17). If you zoom out and move around in the neigbourhood you will see that it is quite densely populated, even outside the towns and villages. I bet everything taken together, towns, villages and the space in between, this "countryside" is more densely populated than greater Los Angeles.

I located oliver999's first picture: here (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&sll=31.615966,120.458908&sspn=0.257867,0.606995&ie=UTF8&ll=31.833032,120.425102&spn=0.00402,0.009484&t=h&z=17). If you zoom out and move around in the neigbourhood you will see that it is quite densely populated, even outside the towns and villages. I bet everything taken together, towns, villages and the space in between, this "countryside" is more densely populated than greater Los Angeles.

thank you sir.
chinese administrate system is:
administrate cities:only 4, beijing shanghai chongqing tianjin(normally more than 10 million population)
capital city of province:more than twenty cities( normally more than 5 million pop),such as nanjing guangzhou ,hangzhou, wuhan
cities(地级市):normally 2-5 million pop, adminstrative 4-8 counties
county city(县级市):normally 0.5-1.5 million.
towns: a county city has 10-20 towns, population 20000-50000 pop in east china.
villages: a town has 15-20 villages, about 2000-5000 pop in east china.

if take example of huaxi village, then
china-jiangsu province-wuxi city-jiangyin city-huaxi town-huaxi village.
towns and villages are rural eara in china.

here are some pics of huaxi village
http://www.lvyou114.com/member/4765/sigthphoto/2007-9-8-8-28-1.jpg


:eek2:this must be taken in heaven

awesome ..the rendering is hot :cheers:

Really interesting development. When I look at the Google Map, it seems the whole region is semi-urban/semi-rural.

China is so different from what we (Western Europeans) consider normal, but it seems to be working quite efficiently. Maybe we can learn some lessons from it.

Yes, like denying people basic human rights and totally fucking the enviroment up. Don't let some pretty fantasy pics and a grand projet or two get too far in the way of reality.

Yes, like denying people basic human rights and totally fucking the enviroment up. Don't let some pretty fantasy pics and a grand projet or two get too far in the way of reality.


have you ever been to china? do you know what you are saying?

Yes, like denying people basic human rights and totally fucking the enviroment up. Don't let some pretty fantasy pics and a grand projet or two get too far in the way of reality.

:lol::lol:its funny that u actually fall for those retarded things that our newspapers wrote.

Yes, like denying people basic human rights and totally fucking the enviroment up. Don't let some pretty fantasy pics and a grand projet or two get too far in the way of reality.

let's forget about political here,just focus on buildings.

If would be the skyscraper 1,5 or 2 times higher, it can be good, but now is too fat.

And sorry, but that development around the skyscraper is just horrible!

here are some pics of huaxi village
http://www.lvyou114.com/member/4765/sigthphoto/2007-9-8-8-28-1.jpg



OK, I don't believe in this pic. Either it's an SLR or probably one of those digitally-manipulated images. Either way, it's a fantastic pic. Almost hard to distinguish if it's real or not real.

i dont think thats a pic. ^^ even though he did say "here are some pics".

one truth is that the peasants there have money!

Wuxi skyline is decent though...

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1033/3167013208_0e1d8142df_o_d.jpg

:cheers:

Wuxi skyline is decent though...

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1033/3167013208_0e1d8142df_o_d.jpg

:cheers:

looks at that chunk of boats, jeez. Half the river is blocked.

Wuxi has the shape to get a great skyline though.

one of those apartment blocks. This is one of the richest villages in China

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/holyforums/huaxinew121.jpg

Nice and weird design. Interesting location as well, something different...

LOVE those buildings. I wish more modern buildings in China incorporated some traditional features into their designs.

March 23rd by hot-simon
http://pic.yupoo.com/hot-simon/4026972d5976/3540ip7n.jpg

http://pic.yupoo.com/hot-simon/9991972d597d/te10tue1.jpg

And the towers are identified as tubes. hahahaha. what a nice thing to be actually raising.

I never thought they'd actually build this and even less so that they'd build this at that particular location.


The people of Toronto willl be jumping up and down if this were built there, but no, It's raising on some farmland in China.

Long live communism with Chinese characteristics.


LOL I can't help but to laugh.



Although, I hope the developer doesn't run out of money before it is finished. It'll be a huge blow to the confidence of the society and the millions of other farmers who are working towards this exact benchmark. Or at least I hope the state is ready to carry the bill if something economically unfortunate were to happen.

God bless China and all her inhabitants.

In fact.. God bless the world and the universe that it exists in.

hmmm so they really went to work on this thing crazy. It's pretty massive I'll be back in 6 more months to see how it's coming lol.

Man, that jet fountain is just awesome.

April 13th by hot-simon
http://pic.yupoo.com/hot-simon/02892747c7fb/mbs734v3.jpg

one of those apartment blocks. This is one of the richest villages in China

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/holyforums/huaxinew121.jpg

No, it is THE richest.

The sphere at the top is a very interesting feature. It has potential to form an exciting part of some sort of lighting feature at night. It looks great in the updates too. :)

all the chinese cities is amazing

Wuxi skyline is decent though...

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1033/3167013208_0e1d8142df_o_d.jpg

:cheers:

that pic is probably 15-20 years old.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/video/2009-03/03/xin_12203060317509371549713.jpg

Wuxi in 2007:

http://img2.pict.com/41/15/5d/bfe21b0616cc8552d73349058e/CmGp0/555c72872376c2de9eb1a89ae3c28599.jpg

it would be scary to be on one of the platforms in the middle :bash:

喷泉的水好高啊，恐怕要50米以上。

No, it is THE richest.
Huaxi village is rich,but its villagers don't own much, because if they move out of the village,their house and car will be taken back.The village is a real communism place.
I think China's Richest villages are in Zhejiang.
The photos below were taken in a RANDOM place along Zhejiang-Anhui highway:
http://bbs.home.news.cn/upfiles/03EBE82A.002C
http://bbs.home.news.cn/upfiles/03EBEA0E.002C
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I don't think these kind of houses could mean sth about rich
nowadays farmers are keen on nice-house-race
those nice house can also be found in Yunnan

Those houses do look quite luxurious.

They look tacky and pastiche but it's better than the squalor most farmers seem to live in.

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wow, it's already very tall. didn't see any construction pic for a quite time.

I think it would even look better without the globe on top.
However, it is cray to build in that rural location.

I like the dome, reminds me of crystal maze :happy:

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华西千名村民将包机游台湾

　　本报讯 有着“天下第一村”之称的华西村，将组织1000名村民包机前往宝岛台湾旅游。昨日在一年一度的“华西诚信节”上，该村党委书记吴协恩宣布此消息。他同时表示，华西村还将在台湾开办一家酒店和旅行社。

　　千名华西村民将分三批奔赴台湾旅游，目前首批人员的手续正在办理之中。据悉，早在1994年，华西村就组织了1000名村民每批包两到三架飞机赴香港澳门旅游。除此之外，华西村昨日还给村民派发了100辆面包车的“大红包”，这100辆车都是新近购买，分发对象是大华西范围内会开车的新村民和周边村民，以帮助他们发家致富。

　　记者了解到，即使在全球金融危机的大背景下，华西村今年仍出现了“一减三增”的经济形势。今年1－4月份，销售收入114亿，由于价格因素，比去年9-12月份减少34亿元，但效益却达5.8亿元，比任务增加了15%，缴税2.6亿元，同比增加了16.4％，游客接待量增加了10万人，效益也增加1500万元。华西村还计划在台北的华西街建一家“华西旅行社”和一座“华西酒店”。目前，该村高达328米的华西空中新农村大楼正在紧张建设中，全村的工业和生活污水实现了“零排放”，全村的绿化率达50.5%。

华西千名村民将包机游台湾

　　本报讯 有着“天下第一村”之称的华西村，将组织1000名村民包机前往宝岛台湾旅游。昨日在一年一度的“华西诚信节”上，该村党委书记吴协恩宣布此消息。他同时表示，华西村还将在台湾开办一家酒店和旅行社。

　　千名华西村民将分三批奔赴台湾旅游，目前首批人员的手续正在办理之中。据悉，早在1994年，华西村就组织了1000名村民每批包两到三架飞机赴香港澳门旅游。除此之外，华西村昨日还给村民派发了100辆面包车的“大红包”，这100辆车都是新近购买，分发对象是大华西范围内会开车的新村民和周边村民，以帮助他们发家致富。

　　记者了解到，即使在全球金融危机的大背景下，华西村今年仍出现了“一减三增”的经济形势。今年1－4月份，销售收入114亿，由于价格因素，比去年9-12月份减少34亿元，但效益却达5.8亿元，比任务增加了15%，缴税2.6亿元，同比增加了16.4％，游客接待量增加了10万人，效益也增加1500万元。华西村还计划在台北的华西街建一家“华西旅行社”和一座“华西酒店”。目前，该村高达328米的华西空中新农村大楼正在紧张建设中，全村的工业和生活污水实现了“零排放”，全村的绿化率达50.5%。


This news is on the headline of chinese medias, saying:

Huaxi village, the No.1 village in the world is arranging for 1000 farmers to rent planes and travel to Taiwan. The village is opening a hotel as well as travel agent in Taiwan.

In 1994, the village orgainsed 1000 farmers to travel to HK and rented 2-3 planes a time to transport the farmers.

Yesterday, the village just bought 100 new SUVs as gifts for villagers.

The 328m tall Huaxi new village tower is underconstruction, and the village achieved zero water pollution emission and is very green.

:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:

Does anyone know who the architect or architecture firm is on this project?

yeah the richest village deserved at least one super tall building for itself :P

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Do you think we should count this as one tower or three towers connected by skybridges?

Hm, in the render it kind of looks more like one structure than like triplet towers.

and with the crystal ball on top as the fourth tower ? :nuts:

What will be inside that "ball"?

I heard the chinese farmers store their grains in some sort of cylindrical earthen pots .They can store that shit into in the crystal ball now :banana: :cheers:

ok.....Wow!!!

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I heard the chinese farmers store their grains in some sort of cylindrical earthen pots .
you mean two centuries ago?

you mean two centuries ago?

Naa till 30years back and i am sure even now they do it some in places . Practises in agriculture rarely change with time.

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Rising very steadily. I don't think it fits in well with it's neighbors though. This is really gonna stick out.

Wuxi is a beautiful city. But I'm not sure its a skyscraper city.

I still don't understand why Wuxi is called a village. Looks like a city to me.

Those pagoda-style (actually only the top reminds me of pagoda) towers are really ugly. They are from Mars.

^^In the contrary, I thought it is unique. It gives a flesh look from all the ultra modern buildings in China. I agree that contructing building next to them will be like sort thump stick out of that townscape.

Who cares if it sticks out amongst its neighbors? Why is that necessarily a bad thing?

I love the design and I hope they don't remove the sphere on top at the last minute or something.

I still don't understand why Wuxi is called a village. Looks like a city to me.

Its not in Wuxi, its in the countryside around Wuxi. You're actually looking at a rural scene, with some of the richest 'villages' in China. Its just that the farmers have built their shacks into highrises and villas, added roads and streetlighting and shops thanks to rich local councils that build for free. In the densely populated countryside these developments stretch seeming without end.

For alot of the Yangtze Delta its much the same thing - look between these buildings and you'll see the fields they still farm. If this was considered urban it would be the worlds largest city, with tens of millions for 150 km:

http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/5977/hangzhou1ca5.jpg

Take the train from Shanghai to Hangzhou and you'll see nothing but this for hours^ This is all classed as countryside and 'villages'. Its not considered suburb because the farmers don't commute into the cities to work.

This village is ...:shocked:

fascinating stuff. and scary at the same time.

Basically this is the richest village in China it started in1979 .When one guy from this village started some sort of iron one factory which later ended up having all villagers as shareholders .So basically this village huaxi village near wuxi ended up growing its industries and they grown into some sort of a huge conglomerate with over 60 factories and all the villagers are now equal shareholders in the conglomerate which now has assets of over 60 billlion Yuan . These companies make everything form iron ore to textile and they usually have lot of migrant workers from other villagers working from them. These shareholders or villagers enjoy huge annual dividends and are basically very rich .Though the catch is if they leave the village they automatically forgo their holdings in the company . It is also not so easy for them to dump their holdings in this now huge conglomerate . You can search "huaxi wuxi china's richest village" .you will find tens of articles from hindu to telegraph talking about this village

yep, that info is right but its a different 'village' to the one I was showing (in the pic). The one in the pic is the countryside in and around the Yangtze River Delta (which includes the super-rich village), where par course the councils build large new homes for the local farmers.

If you zoom in on Google Earth, what you think is farmland (around Shanghai-Hangzhou especially) you will find is endless rows of development stretching contiguously for hundreds of km.

fascinating stuff. and scary at the same time.

absolutely, i don't want to live there.

@the spliff fairy: can you show on Google Maps exactly where this picture was taken? I think the area is a bit greener in reality than it looks on the picture. In the distance, you only see the building but not the fields in between. When I look on Google Maps or Earth the large area between Shanghai and Hangzhou is on average about one-third covered with buildings and roads. After all, they are still farmers. But I bet the population density is higher than in a typical American suburb.

that picture looks like london's skyline minus the ferris wheel

You're on very thin ice with your London obsession.

what? it looks like london--countless 5-storey, dreary buildings with a huge eyesore right in the middle..but i like this building for its sheer weirdness

that picture looks like london's skyline minus the ferris wheel

:lol::lol::lol::lol:
Although i may not think it looks like the London skyline, i find this village very interesting and impressing. I would like to visit that place one day.

I would think that buildings in London should be visited individually as they have great designs even though it may not have the height.

:omg:

I love this, what a great idea to save farmland!

I still don't understand why Wuxi is called a village. Looks like a city to me.

The village is called Huaxi, located in the metro of Wuxi.

Wuxi is a big city with a huge skyline, end of the story.

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This thread is quite the learning experience for those of us unfamiliar with the Chinese "countryside." Very interesting.

china-jiangsu province-wuxi city-jiangyin county-huashi town-huaxi village.
that's it.

The building is so futuristic I think it would be very out of place....

@the spliff fairy: can you show on Google Maps exactly where this picture was taken? I think the area is a bit greener in reality than it looks on the picture. In the distance, you only see the building but not the fields in between. When I look on Google Maps or Earth the large area between Shanghai and Hangzhou is on average about one-third covered with buildings and roads. After all, they are still farmers. But I bet the population density is higher than in a typical American suburb.

Ive no idea where the pic was taken on the map other than recognising the distant hills from the Hangzhou area.

The satellite is deceiving - or should I say the reality is deceiving. Although the lines of buildings take up small space in comparison to their fields around, they stick out more and gives the impression of an urban area. Also if you ever take the train from the south into Hangzhou (as I did) you will start to see the biggest 'surburban' development you can comprehend. Thousands upon thousands of steep sloping roofs, towers, turrets and onion domes - what you think at first is speculative out-of-town development, that fails to end - it literally goes on and on.

You don't notice the fields, the housing takes over the landscape to the point I thought I was in Shanghai. When I was told we hadn't even reached Hangzhou I was very confused, and this development stretched contiguously into the more evidently urban city limits. Even after Hangzhou's stop there was literally a 5 minute gap of countryside (and even then it was greenhouses) before Shanghai's 'sprawl' started. It took me 5 years until someone started posting pics on this forum of these 'farmers houses' before I realized they were rural, and not the biggest city I had ever seen. Since then I had always been wondering why Hangzhou appeared bigger than Shanghai.

some more pix, basically endless strips of midrises, you can see the fields better
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3148/2651708106_8896cbc30e.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3213/2434081024_90135101a5.jpg?v=0

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2285/1634389295_5441258685.jpg?v=0


http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee268/KuaiYu2011/hzc4.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/55/134635523_b8d3b08558.jpg

basically scenes like this to Western eyes seem completely suburban rather than rural countryside on first impressions - unless you notice the fields:


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That is an ugly building, which architect is involved?

The satellite is deceiving - or should I say the reality is deceiving.

google map (http://maps.google.nl/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=nl&geocode=&q=wuxi&sll=37.996163,119.355469&sspn=29.646073,56.601563&ie=UTF8&ll=30.494335,120.371532&spn=0.007951,0.013819&t=h&z=16)

wow.

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any new photos ??

Great progress!

An apartment for farmer,it is incredible.

An apartment for farmer,it is incredible.


Although China has a vast territory, but a lot of land is not suitable for the development of agriculture, coupled with large population, Chinese per capita arable land area of the world's per capita arable land area is only 40%, so China has to protect arable land.


Beijing-Shanghai high-speed rail length of 1318 kilometers, along the way through the fertile plains are Chinese, so of which 80% are building in the bridge, it also acted to protect arable land.


:lol::nuts:

The farmer apartment for Huaxi Village is investment and construction by their own, and they have enough funds, willing to do so, may have their reasons.

1970s huaxi 华西村

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today huaxi 华西村


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wow!! is beautiful!!

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IMO this project isn't 1 but 3 towers sharing a podiumg and several skybridges. What do you think?

today huaxi 华西村

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Fucking beautiful, i hope we can all have a future like that, if urbanization is not preventable.

latest news, huaxi village will build world's tallest golden tower in taichong (a city of taiwan)

latest news, huaxi village will build world's tallest golden tower in taichong (a city of taiwan)

leaders of HUAXI Village need to improve their own literacy,I think this is too vulgar that i dnt like it.:ohno:

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great progress, how tall it is currently ?

around 50 stories, probably about 200m

^^thanks

The design looks stupid.

Are you kidding! This is awesome!

^^ Btw, are they lifting that big piece up?? :nuts:

Can't find anything on flickr. Are there any new pictures on any of those Chinese websites that I don't understand a word of?

I LOVE these comments like, "stupid design!"

Why do you even bother posting those words when there's no substance at all to your idle claim?

And why is that whenever some building is designed that ISN'T a huge, boring, glass box that looks all the other thousands of big, boring glass boxes in the world, you HATE it? Why?

I think all buildings should be forced to look like big, boring, thoughtless glass boxes to appease the retards who hate original designs.

I think that without the ball on the roof looked a lot better :D

One and a half months now...

By the way, is it against the board rules to request updates? I am just really curious about how far along they are, and the only sites that seem to have updates of this thing - and many other projects in China - are in Chinese.

New renders from http://www.ae-design.cn
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^^^^

Welcome in the year 2050 !!!

So futuristic! :nuts: :nuts: :nuts:


But quite ugly building... but interesting aspects.

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Any updates... its almost 4 months ago.

Any updates... its almost 4 months ago.
Almost three, you mean.

Why do people keep asking for updates in all threads? Do you really think that we wouldn't post them unless you asked for them? :)

Definitely. I bet you have a secret stash of updates hidden under your bed.

An amazing design- but lonely towers usually look kinda stupid.

^^^^

Welcome in the year 2050 !!!

So futuristic! :nuts: :nuts: :nuts:


Darth Vader will arrive soon! :)

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The tower would look great without the huge ball on the top~
What does that ball for? For observation?

Who is the designer?

Weird.

Hm, it looks out of place...but yeah whatever your guys said. It's nice and futuristic.
http://i414.photobucket.com/albums/pp229/GreenMonk108/image014.jpg

The design looks stupid.
The design is great, but the ball on top look a little stupid...

i just looked at this building from a small hill, dominated the sourrounding height.

Neat building! Although, I don't think I know to many "farmers" who could afford such nice apartments! lol

Neat building! Although, I don't think I know to many "farmers" who could afford such nice apartments! lol

Apparently the ones that built this thing are rich. Refer to prior pages to see their current dwellings.

Neat building! Although, I don't think I know to many "farmers" who could afford such nice apartments! lol

in china, we normally call people live in rural eara "farmers", but they are not real farmers. they have various occupation.

Hmm. This building seems to me is very interesting. It is in the middle of nowhere and it seems futuristic. I wonder what's going to be inside? Apartments? There must be something conspiracy going on.

:sly:

Hmm. This building seems to me is very interesting. It is in the middle of nowhere and it seems futuristic. I wonder what's going to be inside? Apartments? There must be something conspiracy going on.

:sly:

Of course apartments.
It's not in the middle of nowhere, the building located in a village.

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^^ thank you this looks great :)

Finally an update! I like the cladding. What a unique design.

actually looks great

llooook great!!!!

holy shit!

this is just...wow :okay:

Beautiful cladding. Why is it called Farmer's Apartments? Wuxi is pretty developed nowadays.

It's in a small village near Wuxi called Huaxi

ANd it's for farmers only?

no idea

ANd it's for farmers only?

I think "rural people" would be better than "farmer" in this case

ANd it's for farmers only?

Is that question a joke? :)

link: http://news.sina.com.cn/c/2010-01-06/030319405965.shtml

link: http://news.sina.com.cn/c/2010-01-06/030319405965.shtml

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Anyone know what height does the tower have right now?

The article reads 250m+ without exact #.

laojang

http://i2.sinaimg.cn/dy/c/2010-01-06/U662P1T1D19405965F21DT20100106131627.jpg

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Anyone know what height does the tower have right now?

It's difficult to say it seem between 250 and 300 m but I am not sure. However I compare with the Dubai's Index which TO with the same height to have an idea.

http://i0.sinaimg.cn/dy/c/2010-01-06/U662P1T1D19405965F23DT20100106131627.jpghttp://i50.tinypic.com/2642m29.jpg

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Mega contrast?

up front some low-rises designed in old Chinese architecture
then some weird, modern, Supertall
and then behind some factory :P

Mega contrast?

up front some low-rises designed in old Chinese architecture
then some weird, modern, Supertall
and then behind some factory :P

Good observation. Does seem surreal looking at old, present and future all at once.

the whole village is a group company, on shanghai stockmarket. the villagers get profits from company profits.

Mega contrast?

up front some low-rises designed in old Chinese architecture
then some weird, modern, Supertall
and then behind some factory :P

That was exactly what I thought when I saw the picture. It is a really different scenery. In a good way.. I liked it.

There're some pagoda-like apartments. Then this flamboyant building. Somehow nice, but so kitsch.

Yesterday, I found in a chilean newspaper, called "La Segunda", a little info about this project.
The information on this newspaper talk about Huaxi, a city located in China, that have one of the most riches cities in China and this tall structure that reaches 328-meters high.

http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/797/hangingvillageofhuaxi.jpg
(Sorry about the bad quality of the pic, I used a scanner)

Currently the project is called Hanging Village of Huaxi.

BTW. There is another project for this city, a 538-meters high tower proposed for Huaxi. The cost it's around US$ 880-million. No more info about it.

i was there several days ago, and see this building myself, the surrounding is really weired.
the huaxi core village are only one, but the core village has no develop space(no land), recently, huaxi village merge another 11 villagers into "large and new huaxi",but the another 11 villages give the core huaxi land, but benifit little. this building is an example.
the building is for whose private house are demolished(for new factory,mostly the another 11 villagers),and drive them live in this supertall, lol. but they prefer live in villars(their former private house normally 250 square meters).
anyway, the building will provide good service, inculde clean the room, breakfast,cloth wash etc, the housewives's life will be easy.

HOLY COW,is this gonna be the communist nice government's side like let's get rid of poverty,start building for rural people and let them buy their apartments in there free :) .

Amazing! Perhaps the most futuristic looking skyscraper to be built. I wish this building were in Shanghai with the other space-age designs.

I agree. Also if you look at the Newspaper picture, are those just new steel beams or is it near topped-out?

^^Yeah... and the sphere at the top of the building

Amazing! Perhaps the most futuristic looking skyscraper to be built. I wish this building were in Shanghai with the other space-age designs.

Burj Dubai and Shanghai Tower are much more futuristic IMO :)

Burj Dubai in no way is futuristic . If anything it is pyramidal sturcture for higher stability. The shanghai tower is in my view futuristic cause it has glass facade as a covering . Which i am very interested to see how the engineers set up.

I think that we should salute the idea ... instead ofa building thousands of houses and low rise building and destroy the country they decided to go up and create a mega structure . I believe that this is an excellent response to our endless growth . it s mart and hoepfully the building will be eco friendly !

I am not sure if I get it, I this whole larger area that Huaxi seems to be part of more or less one freaking big urban sprawl? Yes, for sure, sprawl with lots of small structured agricultural land thrown in between, but nonetheless.

Is it like in it uses to be in sprawl that you need a car to get anywhere (shops, services, jobs apart from farming)?

I am not sure if I get it, I this whole larger area that Huaxi seems to be part of more or less one freaking big urban sprawl? Yes, for sure, sprawl with lots of small structured agricultural land thrown in between, but nonetheless.

Is it like in it uses to be in sprawl that you need a car to get anywhere (shops, services, jobs apart from farming)?

i live near this building(about 15minutes driving).the administrative system: huaxi village--huashi town--jiangyin county---wuxi city--jiangsu province--PRC:lol: jiangyin county has about 1.2 million population, the urban eara(we call city center) is far from huaxi village. in the past times,the villagers in this eara normally live in private house(2 or 3 storey,250 squar meters),a family a house.but as economy developing, more and more private houses are demolished,the villagers moves to well planed new highrises.the goverment provide two compensation solution for villagers:the same square meters for apartment(normally two sets of 125 square meters apartment),or get cash(70000 usd to 100000 usd,depends where private house located).most people choose to get 2 sets of apartment.:)
huaxi villagers are quite rich, average 20000 usd income per person each year. the village has huaxi group(shenzhen stock market),in 2009,the village industry sales 6.6billion usd. each family has a share hold of the group, most income are share hold bonus.

^^ You live 15 min away and you have never taken pics of it for us? :cry:

i live near this building(about 15minutes driving).the administrative system: huaxi village--huashi town--jiangyin county---wuxi city--jiangsu province--PRC:lol: jiangyin county has about 1.2 million population, the urban eara(we call city center) is far from huaxi village. in the past times,the villagers in this eara normally live in private house(2 or 3 storey,250 squar meters),a family a house.but as economy developing, more and more private houses are demolished,the villagers moves to well planed new highrises.the goverment provide two compensation solution for villagers:the same square meters for apartment(normally two sets of 125 square meters apartment),or get cash(70000 usd to 100000 usd,depends where private house located).most people choose to get 2 sets of apartment.:)
huaxi villagers are quite rich, average 20000 usd income per person each year. the village has huaxi group(shenzhen stock market),in 2009,the village industry sales 6.6billion usd. each family has a share hold of the group, most income are share hold bonus.
^^, so where do you live? It's very close though...

^^ You live 15 min away and you have never taken pics of it for us? :cry:

several days ago, i visit huaxi , but it's new year, the constructure site is silent,no workers there, no guards, i can enter the building freely ,but i forgot take a camera.

^^, so where do you live? It's very close though...

i live in zhang jia gang(张家港市) city center:cheers:

i live in zhang jia gang(张家港市) city center:cheers:
^^An apartment or what?