Future of Hotel Construction: 30-story Hotel Built in 15 Days

A 30-storey hotel in Changsha, China, went up in two weeks, reports the Los Angeles Times. “In early December, Liu Zhangning was tending her cabbage patch when she saw a tall yellow construction crane in the distance. At night, the work lights made it seem like day. Fifteen days later, a 30-storey hotel towered over her village on the outskirts of the city like a glass and steel obelisk. ‘I couldn’t really believe it,’ Liu said. ‘They built that thing in under a month.’ A time-lapse video of the project in Changsha, which shows the prefabricated building being assembled on site, has racked up more than five million views on YouTube and left Western architects speechless. … The warp-speed construction is a startling illustration of the building boom in China, where an exodus from the countryside to the cities has swelled the urban population by almost 400 million since 1990.” from Chinese building blitz