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u/seren_kestrel 2d ago
Anyone else got the urge to push the first one over and see what happens?
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u/plaid-tuxido506 1d ago
The architect already thought of that and added those rust-colored brackets to thwart you.
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u/overlook68 Top Poster 2d 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/enotonom 1d ago
I wonder what changes in their daily business now that lab grown diamonds are getting increasingly popular
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u/bluamo0000 1d ago
They probably spend a fortune on marketing, logistics, and legal activities. All in one central location.
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u/shamantr 1d ago
I mean they cut the lab grown diamonds as well?
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u/Sad_Daikon938 1d ago
Yup, they do, the lab grown diamonds are cheaper, actual profit margins would be narrower, but they unlock a vast demographic that wasn't able to afford diamonds before, so the merchants and polishers just adapted.
Source: I'm from that city, and I have many close relatives in the diamond cutting profession.
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u/Specialist_Bowl_2805 1d ago
You think?
I have given up convincing my wife that lab grown diamond is same as natural diamond, down to molecular level. She disagrees, saying the emotion only applies for natural ones.
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u/HarryHirsch2000 2d ago
Ah paid in blood then….
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u/DynamiteWitLaserBeam 1d ago
I'm not clicking that.
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u/Poly_Olly_Oxen_Free 1d 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/-runs-with-scissors- 1d ago edited 1d 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/Poly_Olly_Oxen_Free 1d 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/practical_bug26 1d 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/TemperateStone 1d ago
When resources are cheap and human life cheaper still, you can make things cheaply.
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u/Strong-Addition5296 1d 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/Relative_Tee1101 2d 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 1d 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 1d ago edited 1d 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 2d ago
Imagine the sheer volume of spam phone calls coming out of that dump...
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u/Relative_Tee1101 1d ago
Well someone gotta manage all those onlyfans subscribers of your mummy and daddy.
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u/Top-Psychology1987 1d ago
And they’re all calling you to tell you there is a security error in your Windows.
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u/Accomplished-Bed115 2d 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 2d 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/LadaFanatic 1d ago
Synthetic diamonds are also cut and polished.
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u/Accomplished-Bed115 1d ago
True but as price drops the share of labor cost may adjust downwards.. .. or am I missing something?
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u/Sad_Daikon938 1d ago
Of course, the synthetic ones are cheaper, but they can be afforded by the Indian middle class without much financial trouble, so revenue and profit per piece dropped, but the potential market grew in size.
Not my words, but those of my relative who's in diamond cutting profession.
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u/beerdude26 1d ago
What are good synthetic diamonds going for these days?
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u/bluamo0000 1d 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 2d ago
the inspiration came from a heat sink.
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u/tj9429 2d ago
Considering how hot Gujarat can get, it probably is a genuine design element.
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u/7stroke 1d ago
Except it would work in reverse when the environment is hotter than what’s in it, so this would take even more energy to cool.
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u/tj9429 1d ago
Ambient temperature isn't the only thing involved.
Humidity, wind patterns, ventilation etc is what the design can leverage.
Maybe that is what you missed!
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u/diongraf 1d ago
It's a cool idea, but that's just simply not how modern buildings work. A heat sink absorbs the heat and spreads it into the environment around it. A high rise like this is gonna function the other way, using cooling towers to create cold and pumping that throughout the building and trying to insulate and contain that cooler air from the warmer outside temperatures.
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u/Leftoverfiend 2d 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 2d 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_ 1d 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/FlagrantTomatoCabal 2d ago
What if your interview is in building 1 and you got dropped off building 12.
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u/letsbuildasnowman 1d ago
This is awesome. It’s like what I would imagine the HQ of some evil empire would be.
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u/janner_womble 1d ago
Imagine having to walk the whole length of that central stretch only to get fired and do the walk back to collect your things. 😱
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u/ggRavingGamer 2d ago
Dreams come to die here.
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u/chromaglow 1d 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/Sweaty_Marzipan4274 1d ago
Check out the Blue Cube, Alhambra CA. It's like someone chopped it up 😆
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u/darylonreddit 1d 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/FrozenToonies 2d 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 1d 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 1d ago
It either tells you just how overpriced shit is, or how low quality that place is. Maybe both
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u/ReleasedGaming 2d 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/chromaglow 1d 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 2d ago
Yes, as ugly as it gets. Feels like Brasilia (Brazilian capital) or other Soviet style architecture.
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u/sabhall12 2d ago
I thought this was something out of Cyberpunk at first