Update: World's Tallest/Fastest/Bestest Tower, Broad Sustainable's Sky City, is Grounded

From Curbed New York:

 

Photo via Tree Hugger

While construction on China's Sky City Tower, the 220-story skyscraper that promises to be the world's next tallest building, screeched to a halt 10 days after breaking ground—officially kiboshing its pact to build Sky City in a breakneck 90 days 210 days—the developers, Broad Sustainable Building (BSB) have gone ahead and built a slice of the tower "to test and refine the design," writes Tree Hugger. Pictured above: a full-scale replica of what will be floors 165-173. "If they are going to build it 24 times as high they have to get it right."

Last month, in an interview with the Times, the chairman of Broad Sustainable Building said the government hold was "because of all the concern in the media and on the Internet, the government is a little wary and has slowed down the process."...MORE