{"id":21144,"date":"2013-07-02T11:45:18","date_gmt":"2013-07-02T07:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=21144"},"modified":"2013-07-02T11:45:18","modified_gmt":"2013-07-02T07:45:18","slug":"worlds-biggest-building-opens-in-china-and-the-19million-sq-ft-complex-is-so-huge-it-comes-with-its-own-artificial-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=21144","title":{"rendered":"World&#8217;s biggest building opens in China &#8211; and the 19million sq ft complex is so huge it comes with its own artificial sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The world&#8217;s largest building has opened in China capable of fitting 20 Sydney Opera Houses &#8211; or three Pentagons &#8211; inside.<\/p>\n<p>The New Century Global Center in Chengdu, Sichuan province, is a staggering 19million sq.ft. and contains shopping centres, a Mediterranean village, a water park, an ice-skating rink, and multiple hotels.<\/p>\n<p>However, visitors to the glass panelled building need not worry about the weather as the giant complex will have its own artificial sun.<\/p>\n<p>The building is 500 metres long, 400 metres wide and 100 metres high, reports said.<\/p>\n<p>According to Chinese officials, the New Century Global Center is the largest freestanding building in the world, and took three years to complete.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese guide Liu Xun told AFP He added that the artificial sun built inside the building will provide light and heat 24 hours a day for shoppers exploring the around 400,000 sq. metres of boutiques and stores.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world&#8217;s largest building has opened in China capable of fitting 20 Sydney Opera Houses&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":21142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,155,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-other-countries","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}