Don't get me wrong, I love a siesta just as much as the next guy.
But a decade-long break seems a bit, you know, lazy:
A 117-story skyscraper in the Chinese port city of Tianjin has stood unfinished and empty for nearly a decade — but according to China's state media, construction on Goldin Finance 117 may resume as early as next week. If plans stay on schedule this time, the nearly 1,960-foot-tall supertall structure will open its doors in 2027.
The towering structure "has remained the world's tallest unoccupied building since 2015, when financial fallout from the Chinese stock market crash forced the liquidation of its Hong Kong-based real estate developer."
To their credit, the builders at least managed to cap the big structure off before they called it quits:
At just under 600 meters, it will (whenever it's completed) rank among the tallest buildings in the world, easily:
The eeriness of this supertall structure, sitting vacant in a relatively low-slung Chinese port city, cannot be overstated:
It retains the dubious distinction of being the "tallest building [in the world] unoccupied," according to Guinness World Records.
Incredibly, the embarrassment of this disastrous project has likely ensured that no other buildings like it will be built for a while:
Goldin Finance 117 and other previously failed skyscraper projects in China were responsible for the government banning construction of buildings over 500 metres (1,640 feet). When completed, Goldin Finance 117 will be one of China's last 500+ m towers for the foreseeable future.
"When completed" is the key term here! 😂
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