World's biggest building" "New Century Global Center" "largest freestanding building" "biggest building" "largest building" "Chengdu" "Sichuan province" "Mediterranean village" "water park" "ice-skating rink" "20 Sydney Opera Houses" "China" <br /><br />World's largest building: The New Century Global Center officially opens in China <br />The building is so large it is capable housing 20 Sydney Opera Houses and is almost three times the size of the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. <br /><br />The numbers are little short of staggering; at 500 metres long, 400 metres wide and 100 metres high a 1.76-million-square-metre-mega-building has been opened in Sichuan province in southwestern China. <br /><br />The New Century Global Center, officially the largest freestanding building in the world, took three years to complete and will house offices, shopping malls, a Mediterranean village, a 14-screen IMAX Cineplex and an ice-skating rink large enough to hold international skating competitions. <br /><br />The building is so large it is capable of housing the equivalent of 20 Sydney Opera Houses and is almost three times the size of the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. <br /><br />At the centre of the building is a huge water park called Paradise Island. Around 400,000 square metres of the building are dedicated to shopping. <br /><br />The building sits directly opposite the Chengdu Contemporary Arts Centre, designed by British-Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid. <br /><br />The New Century Global Center is at the heart of a new planned area of Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province in southwestern China.
