World’s Largest Building Opens In China

Rather than Opera Houses, inside are offices, hotels, theaters, high-end shopping malls, a water park and the essential faux Mediterranean village

New Century Global Center, which opened on June 28, 2013 is the ‘largest free standing building in the world’.

Located in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province in southwestern China, the New Century Global Center is 500 meters long, 400 meters wide and 100 meters high.

But remember, New Century Global Center is the largest building and not the tallest as the tallest building in the world is the Burj Khalifa in Dubai.

The New Century Global Center is located in an entirely new planned area of Chengdu called Tainfu New District.

There are offices, hotels, theaters, shopping malls, a faux Mediterranean village and family-themed attractions such as a water park called Paradise Island in the huge building.

The 1.7 million square meter mega structure is capable of housing twenty Sydney Opera Houses and almost three times the size of the Pentagon in Washington, D.C.

Here are the photos …

(Please click the photos for bigger images)

With 1.7 million square meters of floor space, the building is three times bigger than the Pentagon. It has more palm trees than the Pentagon too.

Chengdu is also currently expanding its subway line and plans to construct a new airport by 2020, further suggesting official ambitions to make the city an economic and cultural capital of western China.

Welcome to paradise. Paradise Island, that is.

Workers carry out a few last minute touches at the New Century Global Center’s waterpark.

That’s a lot of work for two people

To put this in perspective, Chengdu’s New Century Global Center is big enough to house 20 Sydney Opera Houses.