06/24/2026
100 workers in China put up a 26-storey residential building in five days. Five days. No concrete poured. No welders. The modules arrived on flatbeds, 12m x3m x2.4m each, the exact footprint of a 40-foot shipping container — pre-wired, pre-piped, pre-furnished, and locked together like the world’s tallest piece of IKEA furniture.
208 apartments built in less than a week, all with four-paned windows, insulation, AC, and drinkable tap water. The skeleton is stainless steel, not concrete; the construction company claims a 1,000-year service life. Plus, the whole thing can be unbolted onto a truck and reassembled somewhere else, if you want to move it.
