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# China Wows By Constructing 30-Story Hotel in 360 Hours
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/china-30-story-hotel-360-hours/
- Published: 2012-01-10T20:43:22.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:36:58.000Z
- Description: This jaw-dropping time-lapse video demonstrates the power of China today.
- Author: Hrag Vartanian
- Tags: Opinion, Architecture, China, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 06:51 (2012, 2013, part 1)

[![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2012/01/china-hotel-360hrs-home.jpg "china-hotel-360hrs-HOME")](http://youtu.be/Hdpf-MQM9vY?ref=hyperallergic.com)

This jaw-dropping time-lapse video demonstrates the power of China today.

In just 360 hours (15 days), Chinese sustainable building company Broad Group is claiming it can building a modern hotel prototype in the middle of nowhere that is, among other things:

- 9.0 earthquake resistant,
- 5x more earthquake resistant than regular buildings,
- 5x more energy efficient than regular buildings, and
- contains 20x purer air that outdoor air.

This is in stark contrast to those images we once saw of a 12-story Chinese apartment building [toppled over](http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/c/china-apartment-falls.htm?ref=hyperallergic.com) like a house of cards.

No word yet if the hotel has a Weibo account.

*h/t* [*Architizer*](http://www.architizer.com/en%5Fus/blog/dyn/37175/harder-better-faster-stronger/?ref=hyperallergic.com)