CHICAGO (Reuters) - The Shanghai World Financial Center, the world's second-tallest building that some say resembles an elegant bottle opener, was named on Thursday by architects as the best ...

With China's recent completion of Shanghai Tower, the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) has recognized it as the second-tallest building in the world. The tower was finished in ...

Shanghai is one of the world's most vertical cities, a metropolis where 50-story buildings are routine. At night, the cityscape is so cinematic, it has been featured in both James Bond and Mission ...

Shanghai Construction Group ranks protecting the crews working 300 meters above grade and higher—especially while erecting the cantilevered steel structure and the curtain-wall bracing system—as the ...

The world’s tallest twisting tower, and second tallest building overall, Shanghai Tower, was recently selected by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat as the 2016 winner of the “Best Tall ...

While their countrymen prepared to attend to the Olympic ideals of “citius, altius, fortius” – faster, higher, stronger – two Russian thrillseekers traveled to China to put at least one of those to ...

Gensler's Shanghai Tower has won the 2015 Emporis Skyscraper Award. Selected from over 300 buildings of over 100 meters in height completed in 2015, the Emporis jury was impressed by the Shanghai ...

A view from the Huangpu River toward construction of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill’s White Magnolia Plaza in the North Bund. Two towers dominate the mixed-use complex. One has already reached its full ...

The tallest building in China, the design of Shanghai Tower drew from the concept of shikumen, a vernacular housing typology that blends indoor and outdoor space, in its unique sky atria located ...