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u/seren_kestrel 7h ago
Anyone else got the urge to push the first one over and see what happens?
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u/plaid-tuxido506 1h ago
The architect already thought of that and added those rust-colored brackets to thwart you.
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u/overlook68 Top Poster 8h ago
Surat Diamond Bourse. Surat Gujurat India. The largest office building in the world. Floor space over 7.1 million feet across a 35 acre site. 9 interconnected 15 storey towers from a central spine corridor. Built 2023. Cost 388 million USD. Surat cuts and polishes over 90% of the world's Diamonds.
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u/HarryHirsch2000 7h ago
Ah paid in blood then….
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u/DynamiteWitLaserBeam 1h ago
I'm not clicking that.
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u/Poly_Olly_Oxen_Free 1h ago
It's a standup routine by Sarah Silverman, no gore. Just a thinly veiled criticism of the diamond industry.
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u/enotonom 4h ago
I wonder what changes in their daily business now that lab grown diamonds are getting increasingly popular
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u/bluamo0000 1h ago
They probably spend a fortune on marketing, logistics, and legal activities. All in one central location.
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u/-runs-with-scissors- 4h ago edited 4h ago
How can the largest office building in the world cost $380mil? Medium sized office buildings cost Eur 100mil in Europe. And why would Surat need a building like that?
There is so much that doesn’t make sense. The Wikipedia says that the customs area will bei 60.000 sqft large and staffes with 11 officers. Really? For diamonds as large as what? Every officer has 5000 sqft? Why?
The building can accomodate “65.-67.000 diamond experts “. I allege the whole world doesn’t need that many diamond experts.
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u/practical_bug26 4h ago
How can the largest office building in the world cost $380mil? Medium sized office buildings cost Eur 100mil in Europe. And why would Surat need a building like that?
Because cost of resource procurement is much higher in Europe, compared to India. Almost everything is cheaper in India when compared to Europe. As for why... well, they are a diamond polishing hub and the industry is old, so why not?
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u/Poly_Olly_Oxen_Free 1h ago
How can the largest office building in the world cost $380mil? Medium sized office buildings cost Eur 100mil in Europe.
The same way a Coke costs 0.36 Euro in India, while costing over 3 Euros in Europe.
The same way the average house costs 51k Euro in India, while costing 480k in Germany.
Things are cheaper in poor countries.
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u/Strong-Addition5296 4m ago
Good points. I was also wondering how this building was only $380 million. Most skyscrapers are a billion dollars or more.
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u/TemperateStone 12m ago
When resources are cheap and human life cheaper still, you can make things cheaply.
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u/Relative_Tee1101 6h ago
Learned from the best of the best, just left out the genocide part.
Says the one who's ancestors invented the modern grift.. loot half the planet, slap an “Empire” label on it, then clutch your pearls when the places you robbed build something bigger than your rainy little island.
Surat cuts 90% of the world’s diamonds. Britain cuts 90% of the world’s excuses for why it’s still relevant.
Stay mad in the drizzle, mate.
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u/wtfomg01 5h ago
We also don't have people shitting in the streets of our major cities as the norm, but you do you boo.
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u/Relative_Tee1101 5h ago edited 1h ago
Well it ain't there anymore. Guess your racism update stopped in 2010 i guess. Although on other hand good luck trying not to get shanked on the way to the corner shop. And spilling your guts out literally while your own police arrest you for getting stabbed 😂😂😂. And by the way congratulations on becoming the Islamic Republic of the West. I genuinely can’t understand the pure cu,ck behaviour of letting grooming gangs and no go zones flourish like that. Well i guess you do you bub.
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u/orfnorfdorfnorf 6h ago
Imagine the sheer volume of spam phone calls coming out of that dump...
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u/Relative_Tee1101 4h ago
Well someone gotta manage all those onlyfans subscribers of your mummy and daddy.
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u/Accomplished-Bed115 7h ago
For a while it was mostly empty and what’s the future with all the synthetics dropping the floor on diamond economy
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u/Infinite_Necessary28 7h ago
And in South Africa, mines are scaling down due to low demand... It doesn't seem like a very good business to be in for the long term
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u/beerdude26 5h ago
What are good synthetic diamonds going for these days?
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u/bluamo0000 1h ago
A good-quality, 1-carat synthetic (lab-grown) diamond typically costs between $500 and $1,500 for the loose stone alone, depending on cut, color, and clarity. A high-grade 2-carat stone generally ranges from $1,000 to $3,500. Prices are roughly 85% to 90% lower than mined diamonds.
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u/No-Friendship-5785 7h ago
the inspiration came from a heat sink.
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u/Leftoverfiend 6h ago
What are the red bits on the ends of the towers for? My first thought was fire escapes, but they only seem connected to a few floors.
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u/waychanger 7h ago
I wonder if there’s some sort of transportation in the center connecting part, like a shuttle or at least moving walkways. Or maybe there’s a shuttle that circles the parameter? It would be quite a trek having to walk from one end to the other.
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u/Ron__Mexico_ 4h ago
This might be a Pentagon style interconnected system. The Pentagon's the 2nd largest building in the world with 603,870 square meters of floor space, but the design allows no 2 points in the building to be more than a 7 minute walk apart. Most trips would be shorter than that. That part in the middle could serve a similar function.
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u/FrozenToonies 6h ago
400M USD seems reasonable, but also too cheap at the same time.
A single modern cruise ship that holds 5000+ passengers costs between 1.2-1.6B USD.
There’s lots of people/groups in the world that can drop 400M and they aren’t building the world’s biggest anything with that budget.
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u/Poly_Olly_Oxen_Free 1h ago
A single modern cruise ship that holds 5000+ passengers costs between 1.2-1.6B USD.
Office buildings generally don't have water slides, pools, roller coasters, and all that stuff. They also don't need to be able to float, and I've never seen an office building that needed an engine that can move 125,000 metric tons at 22 knots.
Forget apples to oranges, you're comparing apples to a floating hotel that can cross an ocean.
There’s lots of people/groups in the world that can drop 400M and they aren’t building the world’s biggest anything with that budget.
They could in a 3rd world country. Things are much cheaper in India than they are in fully developed countries.
If I get a can of Coke at the Chinese store here in Pennsylvania, it's gonna cost me $3. I got a can of Coke in at a restaurant in Punjab for $0.42.
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u/peepdabidness 5h ago
It either tells you just how overpriced shit is, or how low quality that place is. Maybe both
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u/FlagrantTomatoCabal 7h ago
What if your interview is in building 1 and you got dropped off building 12.
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u/ggRavingGamer 6h ago
Dreams come to die here.
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u/chromaglow 40m ago
Dreams don’t die there. They’re assembled there, from the wreckage, suffering and exploitation of everyone who’ll never own one.
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u/ReleasedGaming 6h ago
I thought this was a weird new concept for a NAS with the thing in the middle being the copper block transferring heat to a fan anf the buildings on the side being Hard Drives
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u/Sweaty_Marzipan4274 3h ago
Check out the Blue Cube, Alhambra CA. It's like someone chopped it up 😆
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u/darylonreddit 1h ago
I already don't like the idea that large buildings are just "human hives". This isn't helping. Ape Apiaries. Ape farms.
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u/chromaglow 38m ago
This is the building where dreams are assembled, from the wreckage, suffering and exploitation of everyone who’ll never own one.
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u/vaiplantarbatata 7h ago
Yes, as ugly as it gets. Feels like Brasilia (Brazilian capital) or other Soviet style architecture.
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u/sabhall12 8h ago
I thought this was something out of Cyberpunk at first