A Building With Lungs?

Since China is relatively freer than USA, they are moving ahead in innovation. China is half way through building a structure in Guangzhou, to be the tallest, and designed to be "green."

Althoough plenty of people have reported on this building, nobody has noted that the building in fact has two lungs, for breathing. To wit: "Skidmore Owings embedded the tower with triple-glazed facades and solar panels, and chilled radiant ceilings. Its showpiece: four power-generating vertical-axis wind turbines."

These are placed in two sections, forming lungs allowing the building to breathe and regulate. Now another weird aspect, is the first building with lungs was built for a tobacco company.

Chinese think it is bad Feng Shui to have structures that block the flow of dragons, so they will often leave gaping holes in skyscrapers, for the dragons to move through. Check out this apartment building.

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