rallyrocks
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Post by rallyrocks on Aug 30, 2007 6:36:54 GMT -5
So I'm over here doing some audio work on the new facility being built for some untold billions of yuan, we walk in and the first thing I notice is that the floors aren't your typical marble, no they have gone and cut stone from different areas in China and paved the floor with the most amazing lace travertines, brecciated jaspers and whatnot- I'll post some pictures later, but this place is simply UNBELIEVABLE.....
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Post by rallyrocks on Aug 31, 2007 21:38:11 GMT -5
So under this titanium skinned egg (the published cost is 5 billion Yuan, just short of a billion dollars, and given delays and overruns I bets its a lot more than that,) there are three venues, a concert hall, a theater and in the middle- an opera house. I've been in many of the finest such facilities in the world, Sydney, Montreux, etc, but this one is probably the most amazing I've seen.  And different floors and sections are paved with stuff that I'd be happy to cut cabs from;    Get a load of this stuff!   Al I managed to get away with was a small piece of granite from the outside sidewalk, but I think I'll cab a piece of that up just to say I've got a stone from China's NGT. |
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Post by flintfish on Sept 1, 2007 6:26:51 GMT -5
Wow man that's way awesome!!! what an amazing building, the floors look incredible, I'd have to wear a hard hat, i'd be looking at my feet all day long!  Thanks for sharing your photos, that's an incredible set of stones! Cool... Cheers, Harry. |
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Post by larrywyland3 on Sept 1, 2007 8:01:03 GMT -5
I guess they spared no expence.
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Post by krazydiamond on Sept 2, 2007 15:46:46 GMT -5
that is astonishing, Rally! hope you made some friends over there to send you some FLOOR TILE!!! some of that looks like prime mex lace!
KD
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Post by beefjello on Sept 2, 2007 19:39:42 GMT -5
Wow.. those are some killin' floors! When I read your first post a couple days ago it didn't click that you are_actually over in China! (yeah.. a bit dense here) lol. 10,000 miles straight down below my feet.. who'da thunk it?  |
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Post by catmandewe on Sept 3, 2007 23:14:11 GMT -5
I want to see the saw that cut those big ole slabs, bet it has a blown 460 hooked to it with a limited slip differential, OOOH OOOOH OOOOOOOH!
Thats sure some nice flooring.............Tony
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Post by Tonyterner on Sept 5, 2007 13:08:56 GMT -5
Hadn't seen that building in any of our architectural magazines here at work. Really interesting. Those floors would make me walk into people, too busy looking down to look up.
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rallyrocks
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Post by rallyrocks on Sept 5, 2007 13:47:49 GMT -5
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Post by Tonyterner on Sept 6, 2007 9:25:24 GMT -5
Awesome building. It seems to be a real trend to build a building inside a building. The Kimmel Center in Philadelphia is done the same way with 2 concert halls inside a glass enclosure. I got to work on that building a bit.
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Thanks for sharing your photos, that's an incredible set of stones! Cool...
