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 ...

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 ...

For Shanghai Tower, that means using a twisting, second layer of glass outside the core of the skyscraper that gives the tower its undulating look, filters light in different ways, and offers the ...

Ever since its completion last year, the Shanghai Tower has been the second tallest building on earth – just behind the Burj Khalifa in Dubai. Soon it will have another accolade to its name.

The Shanghai Tower is already known around the world for currently being the tallest twisting tower in the world and the second tallest building in the world overall. Now, it also has the distinction ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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.

The event was guided by Shanghai Chengtou Group and the Municipal Sports Federation, hosted by Shanghai Tower , supported ... the race in 21 minutes and 1 second. The top three teams in the ...

Shanghai Tower, coming in at 2,073 ft., is officially the tallest building in China, reports Archinect News. The one notable distinction the mega-tall structure can claim is that it pushed Chicago ...