Impossible: See The 5-Storey Building In China That Has A Road Carrying Cars On Top Of Its Roof! (Photos)
A building has caused quite a stir on the internet after being found out to actually have a road carrying cars on its roof.
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The building has a road on its roof
Photos of a five-storey building in the Chinese city of Chongqing
have been going viral on social media, for the simple fact that the
building in question has a flat roof that also doubles as a road that
cars actually drive on.
Before we go into details about this particular architectural
oddity, it’s worth mentioning that Chongqing has a reputation for
unusual architecture and infrastructure. Its terrain is mainly made up
of hill slopes, and this lack of flat building space has basically
forced architects and urban planners to think outside the box in order
to come up with feasible solutions.
Some of their most famous creations include a sprawling road
interchange with 15 ramps going in eight different directions,
13-storey-high pedestrian bridges and the world-famous apartment
building that has a train passing straight through it.
The newest addition to Chongqing’s portfolio of quirky architecture
is a five-storey building with a terraced roof that doubles as a
single-lane public road.
Photos of the unusual sight were first posted on Weibo, China’s
version of Twitter, last Wednesday, and quickly went viral, with many
netizens joking that such a thing could only be built in China. They are
probably right about that, but a subsequent journalistic investigation
revealed that the roof road actually has a very practical explanation.
The Beijing Youth Daily newspaper visited the unique building and
talked to the security guards there, who said that the road was created
to help residents reach their homes easier.
The five-storey building is built on the side of a hill and is
actually the indoor parking of an apartment complex higher up the side
of the hill. Without the road, residents would have to take an elevator
or walk up from street level, at the base of the hill all the way up to
the apartment building. This way, they can drive their cars all the way
to the residential building and leave their cars parked there.
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