UPDATED--China Plans to Build World's Tallest Building in Just 90 Days

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From CNN Shanghai:
A Hunan-based construction company aims to build an 838-meter skyscraper and do it in just three months 

 

Reach for the sky: the world's tallest buildings, once the 838-meter Sky City is completed, projected for January 2013.

It took Dubai more than five years to build the 828-meter Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building (for the moment, anyway).

But Chinese architects and engineers reckon they need a mere 90 days to leave the Emiratis in the dust.
At least, that's what they've claimed.

Broad Sustainable Building (BSB), a construction company based in Hunan, is planning to erect an 838-meter building called Sky City (天空城市) later this year in Changsha, the provincial capital of Hunan Province.

Projected cost for the building is RMB 4 billion (US$628 million).

Once completed, the 220-story structure will surpass Burj Khalifa to become the tallest structure in the world....MORE

I'm guessing they won't be using the bamboo scaffolding that Hong Kong is famous for:

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