That’s way more than the population of the whole town I live in.
Why do such monolithic buildings give me such hell-on-earth vibes?
Because that’s exactly what we’ve created.
It’s a matter of perspective and use — high density one place means you can have open space somewhere else, for a given amount of land.
I’d much prefer a few large dense housing complexes, surrounded by green space, than suburban sprawl.
I’d also prefer something denser than suburban sprawl, but I think there’s a balance point between that and what the post is showing.
I think that 3-5 story apartments with shops underneath are the best ones, because they aren’t too dense while also not wasting space.
Make those with decent construction so every cough and sneeze isn’t broadcasted to all of your neighbors with good design so it’s disability friendly, and that is the dream right there.
Yeah, love me a elevator. Especially as a delivery driver (rider?).
Until your neighbor starts up with the gimp suit and webcam show again…
There’s a good chance that apartment building has easy to find organized unit numbers that pizza delivery guy can understand. Building may even have multiple front entrances each with distinct addresses.
Once saw a (German) documentary about this building. They have drop-off places on the ground floor where delivery drivers leave their goods in locked boxes. Payment and and locking/unlocking of the box is done digitally through phone.
P.S.: This one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgVXPEORuA0
The pizza guy very likely lives in the building too.
Yeah, I’ve delivered pizza in a city of over 100k people. The whole idea of an address is to figure out where the destination is down to the personal residence. Doesn’t matter if the people are spread out in a single building or many buildings.
I didn’t go knocking on every door any time someone ordered pizza to an apartment. Biggest concern about apartments were if they had a buzzer, if that buzzer worked, and if the code matched the unit number or would be easy to figure out based on the information provided. And if it wasn’t, their phone number was part of the information provided.
You are all absolutely smothering the joke, lol
This wouldn’t be necessary if everyone used the proper peer review process before publishing their jokes!!
THIS is the peer review process.
The type of reply I was hoping for 😄 good stuff bud ❤️
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.
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!
Probably not that man for the food deliverer. High density implies having more than 1 order and there are likely many entrances and building numbers.
We’ve heard about car brain, this is its cousin, detached house brain.
Tall, wide, building, scary!! OoooOoOooOoOoh
If you think about it elevators are just vertical trains
passes blunt
Naw, that’s escalators. Elevators are buses.
Perhaps more specifically, escalators are funicular?
Yes
A bit defensive there…. It’s quite literally a harmless meme
Also, how does this have anything to do with house brain? Most hotels and apartment buildings don’t even come close to the sizes of some of these massive ones in China.
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/
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.
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I think the capacity is 30k, but 20k people currently live there
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.
30 thousand people used to live here.
Now it’s a ghost town.
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.
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.
For a moment I thought the washing machine was outside on the balcony in picture 6!
| Total Buildings | 2 | | --------------- | ----- | | Total units | 1540 | | Total partings | 2046 |
I saw the same thing. That’s almost 20 people per unit.
I imagine with that many people there are restaurants and services within.
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.
I am the pizza delivery boy.
Unfortunately he is tied up at Peach Trees, trying to deliver justice to Ma-Ma.
The Deliverator for Uncle Enzo’s CosoNostra Pizza Inc
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.
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.
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…
And if they don’t, I’m sure that they’d have pickup schedules like any town would.
I wonder how may people have multiple lovers in this building, you know people be fucking they neighbors with this many options
Kowloon city at home
