Shanghai will be home to the world's largest Disney store by 2015 when the Shanghai Disney Resort opens to the public.The Walt Disney Co China announced on Friday plans to build its first, and the world's largest, Disney store in Lujiazui, Shanghai.The Walt Disney Company, Greater China, said: "Disney has combined the retail concept with storytelling, fun and innovation and will provide families with a uniquely immersive entertainment destination featuring our best-loved stories and characters."To open in early 2015, the 5,000 square meters store will be located in Shanghai's financial hub, and will feature a retail space and a Disney-themed outdoor plaza area.
Third Largest Mosque In The World
Sheikh Zayed Mosque:-
Skywalk On Tianmen Mountain
Skywalk On Tianmen Mountain:-
The glass skywalk in Zhangjiajie National Forest Park in the Tianmen Mountain, China, seems especially built for the fearless. But walking on this incredible pathway, suspended 1,430 meters high up in the air (about 4 691.6 feet) is also 6,35 centimeters thick (2.5 inches), making it safe for the avalanche of tourists.
Tianmen Mountain was authorized as a national forest park in 1992. The mountain is famous for its unique marvelous scene.Tianmen Mountain takes its name from a huge natural cave half way up, which looks like a giant stone mouth gaping at the sky. Tianmen Cave which means a door to the heaven in Chinese.Tianmen cave the natural mountain-penetrating karst cave with the highest elevation in the world, hangs on the towering cliff. It is a natural water-eroded cave with the highest elevation in the world.It is actually a big hole in the mountain but people call it a cave and it has become a major attraction.
The cave become the unique sight under heaven and breeds the profound and grand heaven culture of Fairy Mountain in the local area.
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Tianmen Mountain Cableway is the longest passenger cableway in the world with a length of 7455 meters and a height gap of 1279 meters.
Tongtian Avenue has 99 turns symbolizing that the Heaven has nine palaces. It is worth the title - wonder of highway in the world.
The giddy 'sky walk' was built to let valiant visitors scale the dizzy heights on foot, looking down at the green carpet of the surrounding national park.
It offers day-trippers the sensation of walking on the air at the increasingly popular tourist attraction in the Hunan Province, China.
Sightseers are requested to wear overshoes when they cross the 2.5 metre thick skywalk, presumably to help cleaners, who would have to dangle dangerously underneath to wash the glass.
This Glass Plank Road has been added 1,430 meters up the Zhangjiajie Tianmen Mountain, measures 60 meters in length. The translucent floor guarantees the tourists some unforgettable sightseeing experiences.
San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge
San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge:-
The newly built $6.4-billion eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge reopened on Monday evening, Sept. 2, 2013 nearly a quarter-century after a deadly earthquake during the 1989 World Series collapsed two 50-foot sections of the old structure.Part old and part new, part permanent and part temporary, the hybridized bridge opened late Monday night in time for Tuesday’s morning commute. The 6.9-magnitude Loma Prieta quake hit just as millions tuned in to watch Game 3 of the "Bay Bridge World Series" between the Oakland Athletics and San Francisco Giants, killing 63 people and causing up to $10 billion in damage.
On September 2, 2013, the new East Span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge opened to traffic. The seismic opening of the new span is more than just an upgrade of one of the country's busiest bridges--it is an epic transformation of the bridge into a global icon.
For the first time in history, pedestrians and cyclists have the chance to travel on the San Francisco - Oakland Bay Bridge. The 15.5-foot-wide bike and pedestrian path opened to the public at 12 p.m. on
September 3.
The Guinness World Records has crowned the new East Span the widest bridge, with a total deck width of 258.33 feet (78.740 m), including 10 lanes of roadway, a 15.5-ft-wide (4.724-m) bike path and a gap where the central tower supports the two bridge deck sections.
In a traditional suspension bridge like San Francisco's iconic Golden Gate, engineers use inches-wide steel cables to hang thousands of tons of concrete and steel over water, and those big cables anchor to the shore. The new eastern span of Bay Bridge, designed by the joint venture of T.Y. Lin International and Moffatt & Nichol, can't rely on the too-small nearby rock or the surrounding muddy ground—which amplifies seismic movement—for support. So the bridge goes it alone, anchoring its 35,200-ton side-by-side steel decks to itself.
The bridge will use a single 2.6-foot-diameter main cable looped around the roadway and held high by a single 525-foot tower. The 10.6-million-pound cable is composed of 137 wire bundles, each consisting of 127 5.4-millimeter-wide steel wires.The cable acts like a giant rubber band.It supports 90 percent of the bridge's weight. From the main cable, 200 steel wire suspender ropes grab hold of the 28 steel roadway decks.
To stay strong during earthquakes, the tower splits into four steel legs, and the ones that are farther east on the bridge were driven at an angle through more than 300 feet through mud to rest on bedrock. The tower legs are joined by plates called shear links, which stiffen when the wind gusts to keep the bridge stable. In an earthquake, the shear links absorb the earth's movement. They're designed to break if the quake is strong enough, to prevent damage to the rest of the bridge
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