And as this time-lapse video shows, the Mini Sky City building was put up brick by brick at a rate of three full stories a day in Changsha, the capital of Hunan Province in south-central China.
The building has 800 apartments and enough office space for 4,000 people. It was originally planned to be built up to a height of 220 stories, but it was cut down because of concern it was too close to a nearby airport.
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