Jin Mao Tower
A 88-story landmark supertall skyscraper in the Lujiazui area of the
Pudong district of Shanghai.
Contains offices and the Shanghai Grand Hyatt hotel (floors 53 to 87).
Levels 89-93 are illuminated in bright white at night.
Designed by Chicago office of Skidmore, Owings and Merill.
Draws on traditional Chinese architecture such as the tiered pagoda
(Japan), gently stepping back to create a rythmic pattern as it rises.
The building's proportions revolve around the number 8, associated with prosperity in Chinese culture. Each segment 1/8th shorter than previous one.
Built around an octagon-shaped concrete shear wall core surrounded by 8 composite columns and 8 exterior steel columns.
Shanghai World Financial Center
Mixed use skyscraper which consists of offices, hotels,
conference rooms, observation decks, and shopping malls on
the ground floors. (101 storeys)
Designed by Kohn Pederson Fox (international architectural
design firm located in New York, London and Shanghai)
Most distinctive feature: aperture at the peak
Original design: circular aperture to reduce the stresses of wind
pressure, Chinese mythology represents earth with square and
sky with circle, resembled a Chinese moon gate (circular
opening in a garden wall that acts as a pedestrian passageway).
Protests: Considered it too similar to the rising sun design of
the Japanese flag.
Alternative design: Trapezoidal hole
I was impressed about all those buildings found in Shanghai.
They are all well designed skyscrapers which are extremely tall
in height and are of great importance. It would certainly be
wonderful to look at them in the night because of all the lights
illuminating them. Shanghai has been developing very fast and
I look forward to seeing Shanghai become an even better city
that will influence the whole world.
By Weiyong
4:53 AM