While plans for a pair of one kilometre tall towers in Wuhan have been in the news recently, an 838 metre tall Chinese project announced last year and planned for completion by April 2014, appears to currently be serving as… Read More>>
Twin 1km Tall Wuhan Phoenix Towers are Latest Supertall Scheme
A matched pair of hyper-green, male and female, towers are set to stretch a full kilometre from the ground in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, if a local chemical company and some London architects succeed in a recent architectural… Read More>>
Russian Daredevils Offer Sneak Preview of the Shanghai Tower
While China was busy setting off firecrackers over the spring festival holiday, two Russian daredevils decided to celebrate the new year with an unauthorised climb of China’s tallest building.
The lack of an elevator or even exterior walls on the… Read More>>
Shanghai Tower Seeks Help to Lease Out 220k Sqm of Office Space
China’s state-run real estate developers might be getting more market-oriented, or it could be that someone in the Shanghai city government realises that leasing out 220,000 square metres of office space is not a matter to be lef to chance.
In any case, the state-owned developers of the Shanghai Tower, have announced that they are seeking leasing agents to help fill the building.
US Firm Grabs Top China Design Award for Curvy LEED Gold Tower
While China grabbed worldwide headlines in 2013 for megaprojects such as the Shanghai Tower, not all the news is about bigger buildings. A mere 30-storey tower in Xiamen has taken home a Luban Prize, the country’s top award for design… Read More>>
Five Stunning Chinese Building Debuts of 2013
From mega-projects such as the Shanghai Tower to white elephants like Changsha’s Sky City, China’s new building projects have dominated the news this year.
After sifting through 51 weeks of headlines, here are six China building projects that opened in… Read More>>
Shanghai Tower Crane Operator Wins Photo Prize
A crane operator working on what will soon be China’s tallest building has won second prize in the Shanghai City photo contest, for his astonishing views of the city.
Wei Gensheng’s job swinging construction materials into place from atop the… Read More>>
Pic of the Week: Pudong Pinnacles
Mingtiandi is usually known more for words than for images, but sometimes a photo tells the story of China’s real estate industry better than any amount of analysis.
Below is an image of the Shanghai Tower under construction in Pudong’s… Read More>>
Shanghai Tower Tops Out – Is Now China’s Tallest
A topping-out ceremony was held on Saturday for what is, for now, China’s tallest building when the final beam was hoisted to the top of the Shanghai Tower.
At 632 metres and 121 stories, the project will be second only… Read More>>
The Many Mysteries of Changsha’s 220-Storey, 270-Day Skyscraper
News this week that ground had been broken in Changsha for construction of the world’s tallest building brought media attention from around the world. And not all of the headlines were positive.
The decision by Changsha-based conglomerate Broad Sustainable Building… Read More>>