Overnight, most of Gourd Island received snowfall.
People said this year's snow had come late—it was already December before it began to fall. News reports said that in some areas south in Hebei and Shandong, heavy snow had even sealed off entire cities.
The Longteng Headquarters District was no exception. Looking out from a high place, all one could see was a vast kingdom of snow.
Longteng Building would be the tallest structure in the Longteng Headquarters District. Its main tower would reach 395 meters, accompanied by two subsidiary towers standing 320 and 270 meters tall, together forming Longteng Building.
Because of the cold weather, the vast majority of outdoor work at construction sites throughout the Longteng Headquarters District had been halted. Only work that could proceed normally in subzero temperatures continued, such as interior decoration for many completed buildings, as well as indoor plumbing and electrical work in various structures...
Longteng Building had been under construction for more than a year, and the main structure had only just been topped out. But a skyscraper of this height was clearly far from finished just because the structure was complete. With interior finishing and all manner of safety considerations, it would likely take another year or more before it was truly put into use.
As for building height, there had once been an era when major countries around the world competed to construct the world's tallest skyscraper. It was a crazy age for civil engineering and architectural design.
Now, however, building heights were restricted. Anything above two hundred meters required layer upon layer of approval.
It was not that Longteng was forbidden from creating a spectacle; there was simply no need. After all, most buildings in the Longteng Headquarters District were planned to be under fifty meters tall. The overwhelming majority