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Jin Mao Tower Shanghai, China : Building

Shanghai Skyscraper Photos - design by SOM Architects



24 + 23 Jan 2013

Jin Mao Tower Building - World's Fastest Elevators

Jin Mao Tower in Pudong Home to World's 5th Fastest Elevators

This skyscraper building in eastern China has the world's 5th fastest elevators.

World's Fastest Elevators
photo : Michael Bär

Elevator speeds researched by Emporis, the international building-data provider

Shanghai World Financial Center and Jin Mao Tower:
World's Fastest Elevators
photograph : Thierry Beauvir

Jin Mao Tower

Lujiazui, Pudong, Shanghai
1998
Design: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill - SOM Architects

Shanghai World Financial Center
photo © Dennis Remmelzwaal

420m high

Incorporating offices + Grand Hyatt Hotel with thirty storey high atrium

Jin Mao Tower Shanghai
photo © Dennis Remmelzwaal

Jin Mao Building - Golden Prosperity Building

88 storey skyscraper

Photos of Shanghai Architecture : Andrew McRae

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Tallest building in China since 2005
Seventh tallest building in world at time of writing
Jin Mao Tower's proportions relate to the number 8 symbolising prosperity

Jin Mao Tower - looking up the skyscraper:
Jin Mao Tower Pudong

Jin Mao Tower Shanghai design : SOM Architects

Looking across Huangpu River to Pudong with the tower on the left:
Jin Mao Tower Pudong



 

Shanghai Towers - Selection

Oriental Pearl Tower, Lujiazui, Pudong, Shanghai
1991-94/95
468m high
TV Tower
Oriental Pearl Tower
photo © Andrew McRae
Tallest tower in Asia. Third tallest tower in the world

Shanghai World Financial Center
1997-2008: under construction
Kohn Pederson Fox - KPF Architects
Shanghai World Financial Center
photo © Andrew McRae
492 m - 1614 ft
101 storeys
Architect: William Pedersen
Developer: Minoru Mori
Due to be tallest building in the world briefly in 2008 (ie tallest ignoring
spires), but the building has no spires proposed at time of writing

Shanghai Walking Tours



View of Skyscrapers with Pudong Financial District:
Pudong Financial District Pudong Financial District Skyscrapers
photo © Andrew McRae

Shanghai Buildings - various:
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photo © Andrew McRae

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photo © Andrew McRae

Shanghai Architecture - Selection

Shanghai Tower : World's First Double-Skin, Super-Tall Building
Marshall Strabala
Shanghai Tower
image from architects
Shanghai Tower

Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank

Shanghai Architecture Studios

Shanghai Skyscraper - Photos © Andrew McRae

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