Most If Not All Skyscrapers We Have featured On The Blog,

take months if not years to build, 

photograph: Peng Peng/AP but not this one, this 57-storey skyscraper was erected in 19 working days in central China, the rectangular, glass and steel building has 19 atriums, 800 apartments and office space for 4,000 people, Broad Sustainable Building, a prefab construction firm, put up the rectangular, glass and steel Mini Sky City in the Hunan provincial capital of Changsha, assembling three floors a day using a modular method, the vice-president, Xiao Changgeng, said,

the company now has ambitions to assemble the world’s tallest skyscraper, at 220 floors, in only three months, “With the traditional method they have to build a skyscraper brick by brick, but with our method we just need to assemble the blocks,” the company engineer Chen Xiangqian said, Liu Peng, the associate director of the engineering consulting firm Arup Beijing, said the method was worth developing because it could become a safe and reliable way to build skyscrapers quickly, “But it is not perfect, and it does not meet all kinds of personalised demands,” Liu said. “People nowadays want more personalised architecture.” the story is here, or for a much more detailed article have a look here, 57 stories erected in 19 days, and that was 9 years ago, imagine how quickly they erect a building now that they have had 9 years practise!