{"id":36627,"date":"2013-07-09T10:48:34","date_gmt":"2013-07-09T14:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=36627"},"modified":"2013-07-09T10:48:34","modified_gmt":"2013-07-09T14:48:34","slug":"largest-building-in-the-world-opens-in-china-complete-with-indoor-seaside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2013\/largest-building-in-the-world-opens-in-china-complete-with-indoor-seaside.html","title":{"rendered":"Largest building in the world opens in China \u2013 complete with indoor seaside"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian &#8211; Beneath smoggy clouds in the Chinese mega-city of Chengdu, waves lap against sandy shores and a salty breeze blows across the beach. 6,000 holidaymakers look out on a glowing sunset, dining on platters of &#8220;the rarest oceanic fish species&#8221;, while a stage rises from the water, ready for the evening&#8217;s multimedia music spectacular.\u00a0<a title=\"More from guardian.co.uk on China\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/china\">China<\/a>&#8216;s fourth largest city may be 620 miles from the coast, but that hasn&#8217;t stopped it having its own seaside \u2013 newly opened inside the biggest building in the world.<\/p>\n<p>A 100m tall cliff-face of blue mirrored glass, stretching 500m along a triumphal plaza, the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmodo.co.uk\/2013\/07\/the-largest-structure-ever-built-has-opened-in-china\/\">New Century Global Centre<\/a>\u00a0houses an entire seaside resort, along with a 14-screen Imax cinema, Olympic-sized ice rink, two five-star hotels and its own Mediterranean shopping village \u2013 all wrapped with a vast ribbon of offices. Sprawling for 1.7m square metres, it could fit 20 Sydney Opera Houses beneath its glass roof. It is declared by its creators to be &#8220;a landmark which commands the world and is looked upon by the world with respect,&#8221; a pleasure dome that Kubla Khan could only dream of.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/artanddesign\/architecture-design-blog\/2013\/jul\/09\/largest-building-world-china-seaside\" target=\"_blank\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian &#8211; Beneath smoggy clouds in the Chinese mega-city of Chengdu, waves lap against sandy shores and a salty breeze blows across the beach. 6,000 holidaymakers look out on a glowing sunset, dining on platters of &#8220;the rarest oceanic fish [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16044],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedge-fund-strategies-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36628,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36627\/revisions\/36628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}