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This amazing piece of ecological architecture is located in Dezhou in the Shangdong Province in the northwest China.

The 75,000 square meter structure is a multi-use building, it has exhibition centers, scientific research facilities, meeting & training facilities and a hotel.

The coolest part of this amazing structure is that it operates 100% with solar energy, all of which is created by the building! And you have to admit, it looks pretty cool.

This building was created with the good intentions of using the famous "renewable sources" of energy in order to replace the need and use of the fossil fuels. It is the biggest solar powered building in China, and in the world. 

This helps to the environment in a very poorly amount because it's only one building, but it's an amazing start, and an excellent example for others to get in the same track and show the world it's possible to get rid of the fossil fuels.

The Five: Longest buildings in the world

This is a list on The Five: the longest buildings in the world (this does no include bridges, also watch the longest bridges in the world). Intresting fact about this buildings, only one of them was built in the 21st century. And it's:

Dubai international Airport Cargo Gateway

5: Dubai International Airport Cargo Gateway

This building in Dubai built in 2008 is the first in the list, being 1774m long. 

Moldin Fortress

4: Moldin Fortress:

It took from 1832 to 1862 to build this building. The 4th place of the list is a Fortress located in Poland, it's 2.25km long!

Klystron gallery, above the Standford linear accelerator

3: Klystron gallery, above the Stanford linear accelerator:

The 3rd place of the series is pretty easy to understand what and where it is based on the name. Menlo Park, California, USA. This enormous gallery & accelerator are 3073.72m (scientist are very precise). 8 years (1962-66) took to build this 3km monster.

Rainkot Fort

2: Ranikot Fort:

Pakistan, home of the more than 8km monster. The Ranikot Fort was built in the 17th century, for protection obviously. It is 8600m long giving him the 2nd place in the list.

The next building has a similar number in length, only in another measurement...

1: Great Wall Of China

Probably you imagined this was the first place, because it's famous for it's more than 5000km!

The great wall of China, built in an east to west line across the northern borders of China. It was used to protect the civilization of China from the various northern attackers. Other duties of the wall was to prevent commerce without asking for tax in return, so then all the routes of the exchange of silk, would bring incomes. 

Here they are some photos of the great wall of China

The Great Wall Of China

The ending in the sea of the Wall

Fun fact:

If you walked the whole wall of China it would take 1716hrs, that's about ten weeks and a day!

By car (at 100k/h) it would take 3days!

Feeling like for an adventure?

Map of the Wall

The great wall of China was officially started named as the Great Wall Of China in 200BC. But, it was finished as we know it now (this is also due to reparations of the wall, expansions & fortifications) in the 17th Century! This means it took more than a millennium to finish the Wall!

The Great Wall, has an actual size of 8851.8km long! That's what makes this the winner on The Five: Longest buildings in the world.

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The Five: Tallest buildings in the world

The Five: Most expensive buildings in the world

This is a list,

One WTC

 5: One world trade center
Located in New York, USA. It's an admirable. It is beautifull, and also very expensive. 3.8billion dollars, this means every square meter of the tower was worth 15,732dollars.

The Cosmopolitan

4: The Cosmopolitan
Las Vegas, wonderfull city. Full of ilumination, also very expensive city. That's why the cosmopolitan is in our 4th place. It has half the floors of the One WTC, as well as a third the height. Anyway it's 4.16billion dollars! It's very expensive, but in it's way cheaper as every square meter cost 6,307dollars.

Emirates Palace

3: Emirates Palace
Everybody will asume a palace is expensive, but this palace is worth 4.46billion dollars! Of the five buildings, it's the smallest and the cheapest per square meter (3,530US). Probablly it's all the gold decoration what makes this the third on the list.

Resorts World Sentosa

2: Resorts World Sentosa
Many things in this place, as well as 5.38billion dollars to build this. Being a 50 meter 10 floor building. Located in Singapore. Going here for vacations must be a whole adventure!

Marina Bay Sands

1: Marina Bay Sands
Amazing, a hotel, 2561 rooms, prestigious restaurants. It was 6billion to build this thing, it has the most expensive casino. Also there's a mall integrated. Althrough the building price was 6billion, it had a total cost of 8billion dollars!





Being 6,509US per square meter, i'ts te most expensive building in the world 2010.

If you have the income, you should come here for vacations.

The Five: Tallest buildings in the world

 The tallest buildings in the world, all are near, or taller than half a Km! This is a list of the talles five:

5: Shanghai World Finance Center
The number five in the list, is 492m tall, located in Shanghai, China. Their 101 stories, finished in 2008 make this beatuifull structure the fith of the list.

 4: Taipei 101
Located in Taipei, Taiwan. This structure outstands from the much smaller buildings next to it, and this is because of the 101 stories it contains. It has a height of 509m, and thanks to it's height it was the tallest building when built in 2004, until 2010.

 3: One World Trade Center
This young building, it's youst preacius. Located in New York, it was born this year, it has 104 stories. 541m, it you lay down the building it will take you 6 and a half minutes to walk on it! It is the new main tower of the new World Trade Center.

2: Abraj Al Bait

This peculiar building also known as Mecca Royal Hotel Clock Tower, is the second of the list. Located in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. It has 16 more floors than the One World Trade Center (it has 120 stories), however it's 60m taller. Being 601m tall that are highlighted because it outstands form the group of buildings that outstand from the rest. This could be considered the best of the best in Mecca.

1: Burj Khalifa
This thing it's just.. Insane! The biggest skycraper of all times, built in 2010, their 163 stories are almost the size of 3 Empire States!

Precius, amaazing, astonishing, you could look at this thing for hours. Located in the famous city of Dubai, the construction of this skycraper began in 2004, 6 years it took to build this.

It cost 1.5 billion dollars to build this, relatively to the One World Trade Center (OWTC) it's very cheap as the OWTC was 3.8 billion dollars! The building of this structure broke more than 10 records, it has the tallest nightclub, 144th floor. Highest restaurant. Obviosusly the tallest building. Even the tallest new year's firework display.

The 828meters of this tower were desinged by the same person who desing the Willis tower, and the One World Trade Center. It is supposed to represent cultural and historical elements of the region.

The Burj Khalifa's water system supplies an average of 946,000litres of water per day through 100km of pipes. An additional 213km of piping serves the fire emergency system, and 34km supplies chilled water for the air conditioning system. The tower's cooling is equivalent to that provided by 13,000tons of melting ice in one day! To wash the 24,348 windows, totaling 120,000 m² of glass a horizontal track has been installed on the exterior of Burj Khalifa at levels 40, 73, and 109. Each track holds a 1,500kg bucket machine which moves horizontally and then vertically using heavy cables.

 This building has an enourmous variety of thinghs (as shown in the image at the right). It includes from the Armani hotel & suites, to the skyviews in three diffrent heights of the tower and to the base jumping of the tower.

This monster will probablly keep this record for a long time, keepeing his more than 10 world records, and his more than 20 awards. When & where will there be a bigger monster to beat this tower?










Other in progress:
Nowdays there's many towers in construction, mainly in China. This tower will be 2nd, 3rd, 4th, as they are many tower higher than 600m, but there is only one, planned or constructed higher than 700m and it's the Burj Khalifa and its 828meters of height.

Factories are BIG

This video is to introducde you to National Geographic's series: Megafactories!
This series is about the amazing factories in all the world that do amazing products. This episode is about how they do the Audi R8, in a factory in Germany.

Megafactories, Audi R8

The Willis tower

The Willis tower is located in Chicago, Illinois. Used to be known as the Sears Tower since built in 1973. This 108 story, 442m arquitectural building; used to be te tallest when built. It conserved this position as the tallest building for nearly 25 years. Now its the second tallest building in the US and the tenth tallest in the world. It was until 2009 when Willis Group Holdings bought the tower from United airlines and named it as now we know it, thw Willis Tower.



 The Willis tower is build up of 9 pillars, of diferent heights, givinng it's unique shape.
 

This is a view from Willis Tower's skideck. It has some glass squares that outstands out of the building making you step in glass and you have 180° of view, and you can look up or down, Right or left. Pretty amazing thing .

Modern unusual buidlings

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Future structures

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