Friday, 27 August 1999.

The day of the groundbreaking ceremony of the Burj Al Arab Hotel.

Gu Kun got up early in the morning, put on a full costume, and was fully prepared for the upcoming ceremony.

Because it was still hot at the end of August, considering that some of the guests would still wear suits, the air-conditioning facilities had to be adequate.

The Chinese contractor in charge of the construction set up a viewing platform on the northwest shore of the main island of Lanfang, directly opposite the Sailing Seaview Hotel, half a month in advance, surrounded on three sides and open on one side, which is similar to a miniature version of the stadium that has been hollowed out in half.

The walls and roof of the viewing platform are made of double-glazed vacuum glass, which is expensive but can effectively block heat conduction.

However, those who have studied physics in junior high school know that there are three main types of heat flow, namely heat conduction, heat convection, and heat radiation.

Conduction and convection can be solved by vacuum glass, but radiation can not only not be solved, but also because of the glass material to form a greenhouse effect like a sun room, just like a car parked outside in summer, after a long time in the sun, when you just go in, it is sour and refreshing, which is simply not something that humans can resist.

Therefore, Gu Kun asked the construction team to choose the vacuum glass, and also made a retractable silver-white reflective coating film, which can be controlled by a remote control motor, so that in addition to speaking, some sunlight needs to be put in to create an atmosphere, and most of the other time the sunlight can be reflected.

Rao is so, this viewing platform still uses thousands of kilowatts of central air conditioning for cooling, which is equivalent to the power of thousands of cabinet air conditioners.

For a one-off building, not counting other costs, just installing air conditioning costs millions of dollars, which is so arrogant that the Chinese personnel in charge of construction are really dumbfounded.

"Gu Ye's family really doesn't know if the gold and silver mountains are endless or what, and they can't make it like this if they have money. ”

"Who knows, I heard that he doesn't know how much he has made in the financial market, and he is an oil tycoon, and he has taken advantage of the Southeast Asian financial crisis to buy a lot of mining resources from the Malays, maybe he will not only have Lanfang's oil field, but also the shares of the Malaysian Sarawak oil field!"

"The Malays are in Sarawak, and since ancient times, there have been copper mines, gold mines, and diamond mines. Hey, it's really a drought and a drought and a waterlogging, and rich people are rich for everything! More and more rich! This dog is the way of the world!"

Rumors like this were not uncommon when the Chinese construction workers were working.

The conscience of heaven and earth, Gu Kun's gold and diamond mining rights in Sarawak were originally just a little addition to the copper mine, but it was Li Jingshen, the richest man in Malaysia and the boss of Gongyang, who added him to the original economic stimulus investment agreement.

This point of breaking the gold mine and breaking the diamond mine brings him a net profit every year is only an eight-figure level, that is, tens of millions of dollars, which is definitely not more than 100 million.

It's a pity that history proves that Boss Li's suggestion is really sophisticated. For the people who eat melons, the imagination of things like gold mines and diamond mines is too tempting, and the small business of feces, which is obviously only tens of millions of profits, has become one of Gu Kun's main sources of profits.

Who makes the world like to continue to give money to the richest people, it seems that in this way they can participate in the creation of history, and subconsciously inject a layer of historical heroism into the after-dinner conversation, "Look at how rich the richest man in the world is!

Those who chase stars have to chase the most popular stars, and this is also the mentality in principle, but the degree is a little more brain-dead.

Human beings are born with a cheap bone that is a slave of the Matthew effect, competing for the title of the world's first place to show off their wealth, just to dig out this cheap bone of all mankind.

Gu Kun doesn't produce cheap, he is a porter of nature's cheap.

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At about 9 a.m., most of the guests began to arrive one after another. The seats on the viewing platform are very spacious, the fruit and tea are fully available, and the air conditioning is also sufficient.

The viewing platform is surrounded by glass walls on three sides, and the front side facing the sea is completely open, so the ventilation is very good, and the air conditioning is completely hard against a completely transparent environment, and the power of the bricks can fly into the sky to forcibly cool. So you won't get bored sitting for a long time.

In the crowd, there were also several bosses and executives of domestic Internet companies in China, because they were friends with Gu Kun, and they were invited over to eat, drink and have fun together. Ma Feng, Zhang Chaoyang and others are also among them.

Gu Kun will not give red envelopes, nor will he give reporters the cost of the car, which will be detrimental to the qualifications. Just as Dubaiites will not give red envelopes to reporters who boast of Dubai's tyrants, there is a truth.

However, it is normal to eat and drink well and show your local tyrants normally.

The media people of the Internet company also know in their hearts that after eating, drinking, and playing, they must write an advertorial when they should write an advertorial, and it is also necessary to cooperate with the hype and make the domestic online media a tone of envy, jealousy and hatred.

Now just like Zhang Chaoyang, who is in the middle of the day, he is also a battle-level existence in the small circle and is quite respected by his peers.

He put his hand on his eyes, looked at the sun for a while, and talked to Ma Feng beside him: "This hotel, it doesn't look like the foundation stone is going to be laid today, right? I see that there are already a few places on the sea level. ”

Ma Feng has a relatively strong relationship with Gu Kun and knows a lot: "But the design plan of Tongji University was officially approved recently. Those before should have been reclamation operations, strictly speaking, it was not the hotel construction stage, and there was nothing wrong with saying that the foundation stone was laid today. ”

Gu Kun wanted to catch up with the schedule, while asking the people of Jiaohai Courtyard to take out the preliminary basic plan in advance, finish the reclamation work, and then wait for Tongji to completely pass the superstructure plan, so that the parallel operation can be faster, and it can also make the content available to show the guests at the ceremony a little more convincing.

It's better than the Dubai people of later generations pointing to an empty sea and painting a flatbread experience.

Those Internet media people are chatting, and the organizers have opened the curtain on the booth, and there is a huge promotional rendering on it, showing what the hotel will look like after completion in the future, and a high-precision 20:1 miniature model for everyone to see more intuitively.

In the design index of the Burj Al Arab Hotel, the tallest main building has more than 30 floors and is more than 100 meters high. Therefore, the 20-to-1 miniature model is still 6~7 meters high, almost reaching the glass roof of the viewing platform.

As soon as the model and renderings were taken out, everyone was slightly shocked and amazed by the design of the hotel.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I am glad that you are here today to attend the groundbreaking ceremony of our Burj Al Arab Hotel......" Gu Kun also appeared just right, and said some scenes very gentlemanly.

Then, let the beautiful secretary make a guest appearance as a commentator to explain the details of the design and future grade of this hotel, as well as positioning.

At the same time, there is a row of waitresses who hand out 500-to-1 miniatures to everyone present as one of the souvenirs to take away (and of course there will be other really valuable souvenirs as well)

With a 500 times obscene scale, the model is only about 20 centimeters tall, which is very easy to take away in a carry-on suitcase.

"The design of the Lanfang Burj Al Arab project is inspired by the classic three-masted sailing ship of the Age of Discovery, and is composed of three shell-shaped white sail main buildings......"

The spectators followed the narration and admired the model in front of them.

The texture and shape of Gu Kun's exterior are a bit like the materials of the Bural Al Arab in Dubai, and it is also based on the design of the Sydneysider's Grand Opera House, which is actually inspired by the 'waves and shells', with layers of white tile curved surfaces originally designed to mimic the effect of giant seashells.

This kind of design always catches people's attention very quickly, which is caused by the instinct of human visual communication. And with enough design novelty, it can often become a world-class landmark.

The Burj Al Arab is designed as three separate "shells" that are close together, the front two shells are the same pointed "spinnakers" as the Sydney Opera House/Burj Al Arab Dubai, and the two "spinnakers" are slightly further apart.

The third sail at the back is a quadrangular square sail and a cross sail. This sail building is the shortest of the three, like the auxiliary truss sail at the back of the ancient three-masted sailboat, and it is closer to the mainsail.

The most important thing is that this sail building is actually volleyed - because the number of floors is the least, the shortest, only more than 40 meters high, so this sail-shaped building can be directly seen supported by a steel pillar, rising from the sea, and only one pillar is connected to the seabed on the sea surface.

In this way, this pillar is like a mast hanging sails, a stroke of genius, so that the bearing of a seafaring country leaps onto the page.

The other two larger buildings are 100% grounded, and the reclaimed foundation is very solid. This is also the people of Tongji Construction Institute who have repeatedly calculated, and they feel that it is possible to make Building No. 3, which is only 30 or 40 meters long, into a structure that pierces the seabed with a steel column. No matter how big it is, there is a security risk.

The main sail building in the middle is 158 meters high and 32 floors, and each floor above the second floor is 4 meters high, which is relatively broad, and the hall on the first floor is even more magnificent, with a height of more than ten meters. It covers an area of about 2,400 square meters

The front longitudinal sail building is 108 meters high, 24 floors, and covers an area of 1,500 square meters.

The net height of the building is 54 meters, the building is 46 meters high, a total of 10 floors, and each floor is only 500 square meters - because this building is very "thin", the shape is supposed to imitate a canvas full of wind, and there is only one row of rooms on each floor.

This plan can be regarded as maximizing the degree of imagination as possible.

Between the three "independent sail bodies", the whimsical connection of the viewing glass trail is also like the cable between the mast and the mast, giving people a feeling of swinging with the wind.

The guests looked at the model, and the most worried thing in their hearts was, "Beauty is beautiful, but can contemporary human construction technology really create such a futuristic science fiction building?

Especially the guests from the mainland of China, their aesthetics are bound by decades of economic simplicity, watching a Sydney Opera House feels sci-fi, not to mention the Lanfang Burj Al Arab.

"The designers of Tongji are really lucky, and when they meet such a boss who burns money regardless of the cost, it gives them the opportunity to realize their dreams. ”

"I just don't know if I can build it, as long as I can build it, and fulfill the promised decoration plan, there is no suspense about winning the world's most luxurious hotel. ”

"I'm afraid that even if it is built, there will not be so many wronged people who are willing to pay this money to live. Otherwise, if it is so easy to make money, why don't others invest earlier? Building a house is not a very technical thing, Gu Kun can think of it, and other smart people must have thought of it earlier, right?"

The last point of view is probably the most widespread among the guests.

Almost everyone has a kind of assumption: there is no chance to pick up leaks in this world, and others don't expect it to be because there is no future and no room for operation.