On schedule to be China’s tallest and the world’s second ... LEED Gold. Shanghai Tower is organized as nine cylindrical buildings stacked one atop the other. The inner layer of the double ...

When it opens in early 2015, Gensler’s Shanghai Tower will be the second-tallest building in the world ... air” from the building’s interior conditioned spaces. This double-layer configuration, along ...

The Shanghai Tower is China’s tallest building and the world’s second-highest ... electricity to power exterior lighting. The two-layer glass facade functions like a Thermos, reducing energy ...

From the viewing platform of the Shanghai Tower, the second tallest building in the ... surrounded by a rubble layer of fallen debris. The inevitable inundation may come from the sea, or from ...

The Shanghai Tower in China was officially crowned the second-tallest building in the world last week. The same day, as if on cue, the country’s stock market had tanked. Shanghai Tower is not ...

which rockets up and down the interior at an ear-popping 18 metres per second. And while the Shanghai Tower may be 140 metres shorter than the 828-metre Burj Khalifa, it boasts the world’s ...

At its maximum speed the state-of-the-art lift travels at 18 meters a second. The Shanghai Tower is set to be 632-metre tall, second only to the Burj Khalifa in Dubai which stands at 829.8m.

SHANGHAI — Work on the main structure of the world’s second tallest skyscraper was completed on Saturday, as the final beam was placed on the Shanghai Tower. A crane placed the steel beam ...

The just-topped 2,000-foot-tall Shanghai Tower will have huge 15-story parks throughout the structure–and it will let the public in to play in them. The second tallest building in the world is ...