People mind blown by 'dystopian' apartment block that houses 30,000 residents
The Regent International in Qianjiang Century City, China, was originally built to be used as a hotel
People have been left mind blown by a ‘dystopian’ apartment block that houses a whopping 30,000 residents.
A video of the colossal building block has been doing the rounds of social media and it has got a lot of people talking.
The apartment in question is the Regent International in Qianjiang Century City, China, which was originally built to be used as a hotel.
However, those plans were ultimately abandoned in place of it becoming a permanent residence for occupants.
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It stands at 675 ft tall, has an unusual S-shaped design, and has the capacity for around 30,000 people to live there.
Currently, about 20,000 residents call the apartment block home which means there’s room for another 10,000 people to rent out apartments there.
A clip of the huge building was posted on Reddit, with the poster captioning it with: “The Regent International Hangzhou - a massive apartment complex in Qianjiang Century City district, with capacity to house 30,000 residents.”
This prompted a response from others, with one user writing: “Peak dystopia.”
Another said: “The plumbing situation must be insane.”
A third person commented: “This building has more people than the town I grew up in lol.”
And a fourth added: “Tbh when your population is in the BILLION… I get it.”
However, things become even more dystopian when you learn that the building houses a whole bunch of amenities so that these 20,000 people don't have to actually ever leave.
There are stores embedded in the building, including a food court, nail salons, swimming pools, barbers, supermarkets and internet cafes.
This means that basically every need you might need throughout the week should be available within the Regent International building itself.
This almost makes it more like its own town rather than just an apartment block - with the population of the building being comparable to that of an average town too!
For such a huge building, there aren’t that many ways to glimpse its interior, though - residents don’t seem to have posted much about it.
Instead, we’re reliant on the clips that have emerged through social media, including some pretty amazing exterior footage of the building’s sheer size captured by drone.
One TikTok creator did show a little of the building’s inside as she apparently made her way around it, although you only really get to glimpse the building’s foyer, rather than getting a real sense of the geography of its corridors.