Ping An Finance Center, a 599-metre (1965-foot) skyscraper in Shenzhen is now officially China’s second tallest building. The Kohn Pedersen Fox-designed megatall in the city’s Futian district now ranks just behind the 632-metre Shanghai Tower among the mainland’s loftiest erections,… Read More>>
Google and NASA Team Up to Bring You 30 Years of Chinese Development in 30 Seconds
China’s development over the past 30 years has been one of the world’s biggest success stories, but has also been a series of changes that have been hard to appreciate if you haven’t live through it.
While there’s no time… Read More>>
22 Migrant Workers Said Killed as Buildings Collapse in Wenzhou
Nearly two dozen people were killed when a row of ramshackle houses collapsed in the eastern China city of Wenzhou on Monday. State-run media described the casualties as primarily being migrant workers occupying substandard buildings in the prosperous trading and… Read More>>
Greenland Launches Western Europe’s Tallest Residential Tower in London
One of China’s biggest cross-border real estate investors is ready to start selling units at its £800million ($1.1 billion) London project and may get a chance to test first-hand whether Brexit has cooled buyer enthusiasm for UK housing.
Shanghai-based Greenland… Read More>>
E-Shang Redwood Wins LEED Gold for Kunshan Warehouse
Regional warehouse developer e-Shang Redwood (ESR) has won LEED Gold certification for its Redwood Kunshan Distribution Centre 1 in Kunshan, Jiangsu province, a burgeoning logistics hub just west of Shanghai.
The 61,851 square metre, two-storey facility won the high level… Read More>>
Shenzhen Kingkey Plans 739-Metre Supertall to Top Shanghai Tower
At 632 metres, the Shanghai Tower has been China’s tallest building since it topped out in 2013, however, if one of Shenzhen’s biggest developers has its way, a new supertall structure in the southern metropolis could soon take the mainland’s… Read More>>
Swire to Invest US$1.93B, Add Two New Towers in HK’s Taikoo Place
Swire Properties has announced plans for two new high-end office towers in its Taikoo Place development, adding two million square feet (185,000 square metres) of prime space to the project in Hong Kong’s Quarry Bay.
The two new towers are… Read More>>
Paulson Says China Needs $1 Trillion to Build Green Cities
One trillion dollars (RMB6.6 trillion) will be needed to support China’s efforts at reducing carbon emissions in the next five years, and former US Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson is leading cross-border efforts to provide the know-how and financial backing to… Read More>>
Shanghai’s Three Lujiazui Amigos: Jinmao Tower, SWFC and the Shanghai Tower
Shanghai’s Lujiazui financial district is the center of the banking and finance business in China’s commercial capital, as well as being home to three of the country’s tallest towers.
While the skyline is dominated by the 88-storey Jinmao Tower, the… Read More>>
China Bans ‘Weird Architecture’ and Gated Communities
Xi Jinping has made the enforcement of party discipline and service to the state a hallmark of his administration, and now it appears that China’s supreme leader is even trying to bring the country’s buildings into line.
China’s state council,… Read More>>
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