Mega -- machines, structures

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600 ton steel ball, hangs in roof of tall building to counteract earthquakes and hurricanes.

Do you ever wonder about the technology that surrounds you every day. 20th century Jan 1, 2001 - Dec 31, 2001.

Inside a city most people have never heard of, more than 1,000 kilometers from the nearest ocean, China built the largest building on Earth by floor area. The New Century Global Center in Chengdu is so massive that the entire Pentagon could fit inside it roughly 3 times over. Under one roof it holds a shopping mall, an Intercontinental Hotel with 1,000 rooms, office towers, an IMAX cinema, an ice rink, conference halls, and at the very center of it all, a fully working indoor beach complete with a wave pool, a lazy river, a pirate ship, and an artificial sun that keeps it locked at a permanent summer afternoon, every single day of the year. The numbers are hard to believe even when you are looking at them. But the story behind this building is just as wild as the building itself. The developer who spent a decade assembling it was arrested months before it opened and never made it to the ribbon cutting. The politician who backed the entire project ended up with a 13 year prison sentence. A world famous Zaha Hadid cultural center was promised as part of the land deal and quietly never built. And the building has since passed through the hands of a state enterprise, one of China's most aggressive property giants, and a debt crisis that shook the entire real estate sector. This is the full story of how the world's largest building got built, who paid the price for it, and why it is still standing today.

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