1. The world's longest bridge-Lake Pontchartrain in Louisiana
In 1969, The No.2 causeway on lake pontchartrain in louisiana U.S was completed which successfully link Mandeville with Metairie with 38.42km long. The causeway cross LakePontchartrain, among which 8miles can people see the sea without any land and the causeway cross the center of the lake.
2.The world's biggest carnie-Disney Land in Orlando
Diney Land in Orlando locates in Florida with total investment of US$ 400 million which is the world's biggest theme park as well as the headquarter of Disney and it occupies 124km2 which is about 20% as big as Singapore.The land owns 4 super big theme parks, 3 water paradise, 32 holiday hotels(among which 22 were organized by Disney) and 784 camping places. Since its open on October, 1971, the land welcomes about 12million tourists in each year. Here has five 18-hole international standard golf yards and intergrated sport parks, while there also exists a disney shopping center in the city center which mixed with shopping, recreation as well as repast facilities. In the center, there are night-use amusement zones, varieties of shops and over 250 restaurants.
3. The world's biggest architecture for administrator-The Pentagon
The Pentagon locates in the Arlington town neighbouring with Potomac riverside nearby washington in U.S which is the place for American department of defense. Overlooking from the sky, the architecture was just like a regular pentagon, hence got its name'The Pentagon'. The building occupies 2,359,000km2 with 22m tall. The building has 5 floors with 608,000km2 of architecture area and about 344,000 km2 of utilization area. At that time, the total cost of it is 87million and it was completed on Apr.15, 1943 while it was set in use on May in the same year of its completion. The building allow 23,000 people working. Each of the south and north part of the building has a parking lot thus they can allow 10,000 cars parking in the same time.
4. The world's longest man-made architecture-The Great Wall in China
The majesty and grand Great Wall cross the summits of lofty and precipitous peaks in the northern part of China with a total length of over 67million km2 which started its building in Chunqiu dynasty of ancient China. The Great Wall is an unusual defense project of ancient military affairs in architecture history.It is well known for its long history, huge project as well as its majesty verve. It has been listed in World Heritage List of UNESCO.
5.The world's biggest huge rock architecture-The Great Pyramid of Khufu in Egypt
The great pyramid of khufu in Egypt was built during the reign of Khufu who is the second pharaoh of the fourth dynasties(about B.C. 2670) which is considered as the tomb built for khufu himself. In ancient Egypt, each pharaoh, since ascending the throng, built their tomb in order that they could release souls from purgatory to be a god after their death.The 4 faces of the great pyramid of khufu just face east, south, west and north, and the errors do not over 3' of arc de circle. The original length of its hemline was 230m, however, as the falling off of the limestone in its outer side of the pyramid,now the hemline reduces to 227m with obliquity of 51o52'. The original height was 146.59m, however, as the flasking off of the top, now the height is 136.5m which is just as high as a 40-storey skyscraper. The underside of the pyramid is square with 52,900km2.
The body of the pyramid is formed by 2.3million varieties of huge rocks. Each rocks weighs ranging from 1.5t to 160t. Each two rocks was jointed closely without any bindings.If chiseling the rocks into small pieces with 1 cube foot on average and arrange them in a line, the length was just 2/3 perimeter of the earth. The construction of the huge engineering, fine configuration involved in measuration, astronomy,mechanics, physics, methematics and other fields. Thus it was called as the greatest rock architecture in human history and now it still has many veiled mysteries.
6. The world's biggest ancient architectural complexes-The Imperial Palace in Beijing, China
The imperial palace in Beijing, China is also called the Forbidden City which locates in the center of the urban area of Beijing and it was the basilica for ming and qing dynasties. 24 emperors ascended the throng and reigned in succession at here. The palace started its construction in 1406, hitherto, it has nearly 600 years' history. The imperial palace is currently the ancient wood-made architure complexes with the biggest and the most unabridged in size. It occupies 720,000km2 and the architecture area is 150,000km2.It has over 9,000 halls and houses, among which the Taihe Palace(also called jinluan Palace) is the palace for the emperor helding enthronement, celebrating birthday and holidays, dispatching troops and going on a punitive expedition as well as other grand ceremonies. The imperial palace is the elite of chinese ancient architecture with yellow tiles and red walls, golden door leafs and red principle columns of halls, white jade carving cotes,overlapping palaces, lofty and magnificent.The imperial palace now collects about 1million rarity past dynasties' cultural relics and artworks. It has been listed in World Heritage List in December,1987.
7.The world's biggest singularity engineering project-Three Gorges Hydro Project
The total length of three gorges project in China including bilateral non-overflow dams is 2335m. Leak-off dams are 483m and it has 26 sets of 0.7million kw hydropower station units, double-way five-step locks and ship lifts. After its completion, the superficial area of three gorges reservoirs is just as big as the area of singapore. And it is estimated that the wholem project will cost US$24.5billion.
8. The world's highest building-Taipei 101
Taipei 101 considered as Taipei's new landmark of China starts it construction in October, 2003. It has the world's biggest and heaviest wind damper and two sets of world's most swift lifts which can just take 39 seconds to move from first floor to 89th floor. In the certificate issued by CTBUH, Taipei 101 got three best among the four targets of world high building, that is the world's highest building(508m), the world highest utilization floor(438m) and the world's highest roof(448m).
9. The world's biggest parking lot-the parking lot of O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, USA
The world's biggest parking lot is at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, USA which can accomodate 9,250 cars.
10. The world's biggest train station-the final stop of New York metropolis
The metropolis final stop in NYC, U.S is the world's biggest train station. The train station was invested by the millionaire William Van der Berde in the beginning of the century. The station was jointlt built by two American architecture companies which are Warren and White Moore company and Redd and Stam company.
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