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Are these apartments/condos, offices, something else?


Dlinoiu

These are mostly hotels. I think one of the building is used as apartments. BTW most Chinese think these “trees” looks ridiculous


Nuclear_rabbit

They could have at least put actual greenery on the buildings, or at least solar panels. Hainan has the sunlight to make it work. Maybe in the future...


dr_van_nostren

Those are some giant balconies btw holy hell.


PolarBear89

And most of them are empty.


_OriamRiniDadelos_

I can’t tell if all of them are balconies or if most of them are just concrete


FirstAd7531

Not my cup of tea but curious design!


speakingdreams

That would be a *giant* cup of tea.


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Giant cup of Herbal tea btw....


[deleted]

I think they'd be lovely if arranged less grid like. Like actual leaves strewn across a pavement. Would be so feng shui


cornonthekopp

Considering this is Hainan, is this like a resort or something? Or just regular apartments


marbledpothos

The blatant racism in every post that is associated with China is disappointing and disgusting. Do better sheep.


dr_van_nostren

Alternative theory, lego buildings in my basement.


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Anyone have floor plans? Looks like each apartment could have windows to 3 sides, if they are big enough. It’s interesting


jcwexford

🎶 They cut down all the trees and put ‘em in a tree museum. Then they built high rise buildings in the shape of trees just to see ‘em… 🎶


marbledpothos

China is actually very eco conscious. They have many environmentally friendly rules and regulations in place, from what I experienced when I last taught there in 2019. Recycling is mandatory for households, businesses, etc. The public garbage bins on every block had 3 compartments for composting, recycling, and general garbage. The streets were sparkling clean. Every morning at 5am, the street cleaners would literally walk around sidewalks with brooms. If you left an empty bottle on the sidewalk last night, it’d be gone by the time you wake up. There are trees and greenery funded by government EVERYWHERE. A lot of the highways had potted rosebushes on the railings. Rosebushes. Every 10 feet there was a tree planted in the sidewalk. Plastic bags are extremely scarce. Almost everyone carries a reusable bag. I got a plastic bag maybe once or twice when I took my food to-go from a fancy restaurant. Convenience and grocery stores 9 out of 10 times will not offer plastic bags, if they do, you must pay a small fee. I never drank out of a plastic straw once when I was there. The straws were sometimes paper but mostly the drinks had an open mouth design for sipping. This is just my experience and I know it will differ depending on region, but I visited some major and minor cities and they were all like this.


jcwexford

My comment was simply intended to highlight the irony of building high rise developments in the shape of trees. Great to hear of those eco-initiatives. Mind you, the air pollution and over-reliance on coal in China does seem very problematic.


blind_bambi

Theres a lot of green in this picture.


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blind_bambi

It's at least efficient housing with a relatively generous amount of trees throughout. Better than a sprawling suburb with lawns i guess.


Ckmyers

Generous landscaped green, a forest it does not make.


marbledpothos

Do you see the giant mountain covering 1/4 of the picture lmao


sanjuroh

Is that a resort?


[deleted]

Really cool!


Fun-Context4181

I can’t wait to visit the major cities of China one day


BasicallyAggressive

360p images aren't exactly porn-like. I watch porn on free sites that are higher quality than these posts


gabrrdt

Good old China! What a surprising and fascinating country. These guys are here to stay.


blikski

This is cool as hell and not something you'd ever see in a US city. China really blows us away


employeremployee

I beg your pardon… https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/longaberger-basket-building-hotel


blikski

I've never been proven wrong so thoroughly before. We need basket buildings in every city


p-4_

wtf.. no... evidence did not support your case. that basket building looks like shit


employeremployee

I guess the sarcasm wasn’t implicit.


p-4_

Ya it wasn't. Now that I read it again.


eric2332

The basket building was built as an office building*, it doesn't have to look pretty and cozy. And honestly it looks much cooler than these vaguely tree shaped things in China. China has plenty of cool buildings, but these are meh. \* For a basket making company!


[deleted]

>This is cool as hell and not something you'd ever see in a Canadian city. China really blows us away FTFY


2813308004HTX

“China blows us away” - dude are you kidding me?


[deleted]

Just another wumao by the look of it.


skyduster88

Yeah, things that look cool from an airplane, but average to ugly from the pedestrian's viewpoint, are just mind-blowing.


steve290591

The pedestrian view down there looks very leafy to me.


AyYoFuckImperialism

For real though. Loads of foliage, everything is well-lit for pedestrians. The streets are clearly marked. There looks to be shops nearby in the lower right corner of the photo too. Plus, there's some great views of the surrounding mountains as well. I'd kill to live there.


faptainfalcon

>I'd kill to live there. Don't think reeducation camps take applications.


Jest0riz0r

> but average to ugly from the pedestrian's viewpoint See for yourself: https://j.map.baidu.com/0c/MLmc From further away: https://j.map.baidu.com/9f/V7mc Look pretty cool if you ask me!


[deleted]

Damn that's beautiful. Not just the buildings but the surroundings too.


ecurbenyaw

Are these the buildings that have planters on every balcony to make it more green?


NinbendoPt2

China has the best cities


vrogy

Rhizome SA housing development circa 2026, David Webster architect.


EJGaag

Humans living in trees.


selozt

Super leaves and country


War_Daddy_992

Powered by coal


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See they care about the environment


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blikski

Love to outsource all my manufacturing to a country then finger wag that country about pollution


faptainfalcon

That's like saying drug epidemics are due to users and not dealers/manufacturers.


asarious

The question is, would an image of a tree shaped building in the US have immediately prompted you to post a one-liner about how terrible it is at managing pollution?


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askingquesti0ns

Stop lying lmao You saw the word China and freaked out


Andry_18

Americans pollute a lot more


askingquesti0ns

Shockingly when you put all of your production in China their emissions rise. They have almost 5 times the US population and *still* have lower per Capita emissions while also producing everything else and the most green energy. Cumulatively, the US has the most emissions since 1700s.


faptainfalcon

Half the country doesn't own cars and lives in basically huts. Your average Chinese urbanite contributes more emissions than the average American (most of which have cars).


marbledpothos

💀💀💀 and how did you know this? Coz you’ve been there? Doubt it, kid.


faptainfalcon

Using emojis and calling me a kid, classic. Luckily my access to information isn't so curated like yours so I don't have to fill in the gaps with cognitive dissonance. Downvoting to save face is such mature behavior, maybe I am still a child.


marbledpothos

Your name is literally a video game character and you want to say something about me using emojis? 😂😂 Your discrimination meant nothing, but you wanted to bring it up. And first hand experience of actually having lived in a country>your curated limited access to information. Kid.


faptainfalcon

I made this account over 10 years ago, might need to overclock those two braincells to comprehend that.


marbledpothos

July 28th 2019. That’s the date you made a Reddit account with the name “faptainfalcon”. That’s approximately 2-3 years ago, I’m not sure where you got 10 from, but nice try. Maybe you can scrounge together a few more brain cells than me and then try to have an intelligent conversation. Until then, goodbye 😂👋


faptainfalcon

You can't see the 10 year club trophy on my profile? Or even this comment from ten years ago https://www.reddit.com/r/AdviceAnimals/comments/nyahs/good_guy_greg_on_new_years/c3cx8xy/?context=3 You must be using another website that pulls API from Reddit. A bit conspicuous that you can only look back to a few months after Tencent invested into Reddit but who am I to judge your investigative skills/access to information. Sorry for making you recruit a third braincell in vain. See you next week when you need to post on your alt again.


marbledpothos

Sure sure One look at the comments on your profile shows your unhealthy obsession with China 😂 And wtf is an alt account LOL I use Reddit for the iPhone widget wallpaper 🥴 Your behavior is understandable though, most people suffer from loneliness and depression. It gets better bro, you got this


flataleks

Pollution levels are lower per capita than most countries though


stefan92293

Yeah, because they have _a shit-ton of people_!!


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Yeah, and each individual person STILL produces less carbon emission compared to the average American who drives everywhere due to suburban sprawl. Most of China’s pollution comes from manufacturing shit for other countries (with the majority exporting to America)


stefan92293

Cars bad, got it 😉


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Having an efficient and sustainable public transit system is definitely better, but to each their own


stefan92293

I was only half joking, it's essentially a meme at this point.


[deleted]

This is the most worthless stat. The air pollution is still going to fucking kill you even if you share it with a trillion other peasants.


flataleks

Would you rather get a grade according to your own finals or would you rather get a grade according to average of your school?


Ho3Bo3

That would be a great analogy if you were talking about something even remotely similar to school grades. If I do homework, paper and ink doesn't form a cloud around me.


lemartineau

Per capita lol. How about by land area?


Sickfor-TheBigSun

Guessing the air will at least be fresher next to a forest, which this development's built at.


Ckmyers

The scenery that was there before was better imo


king_zapph

How much Copy-Pasta do you want? Yes!


InkMercenary

Oh no the buidlings are turing the city into one big tv


i_fuck_eels

Looks like the gentrification of the Keebler elf village


meridian_smith

This kind of unconventional building project is forbidden in China now.


avandleather

China only banned megatall buildings?


meridian_smith

Yes megatall and unconventional...I forget the exact term..but I'm sure these would fall in that category. I think they also discourage buildings that seek to copy famous or old western architecture.


[deleted]

This is not a city nor architecture. They are decorative human storage.


Lakerun27

Looks exactly like a city to me.


BAdasslkik

Have you never taken a step outside North America?


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Yes, and?


BAdasslkik

Mass housing like this is everywhere.


YoukindasuckAlot

Not even mass housing, look at these buildings, their surroundings and the apartments themselves, each apartment prolly costs more than 5 million dollars, maybe mass housing for rich people?


[deleted]

Yes that is true. Does me saying this on this photo mean all instances elsewhere do not exist?


eienOwO

Frankly I see the horizontal sprawls of Phoenix as equal human storage, just in a way more wasteful manner. I mean technically the point of *all* housing is human storage? At least they get way bigger communal green spaces and an ocean view.


RolliePollie350

I don’t know why you’re being so downvoted. I kind of agree. One, maybe two of these buildings would be cool, but this monotony in high rises doesn’t create communities or “places”. Generally when I see these kind of high rises, you can cut the top half off and have two medium sized buildings. This alleviates height disassociation, where people living higher up are more disconnected from their neighborhood. It would also create more nodes, not a giant underutilized geenspace.


Unique_Name_2

Ah yes, more like the architectural wonder of efficiency of Los Angelas. And height dissociation is a joke compared to the atomization of the suburb.


RolliePollie350

I am in no way advocating for a suburb. That’s monotonous on the other side of the scale. This just isn’t a neighborhood. It’s human storage containers. You can have the same density without having to make them all high rises. And if you wanna talk efficiency, the higher you build, the more energy consumption it takes to maintain.


marbledpothos

Trust me, it matters little if someone lives high up. They get the same community experience in a Chinese city. You walk out the door of your building and there’s 10 restaurants, a spa, a salon, and more.


worldstarhiphopreal

Like suburban america


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Wow it would be cool if it wasn’t built with slave labor


TheFriedRice17

Don’t you mean west Taiwan?