Researchers at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands have developed a polymer that adopts a coiled spring ...

Three generations of China’s tallest buildings: the Jin Mao Tower (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 1998; 420.5 meters), left; the Shanghai World Financial Center (Kohn Pedersen Fox, 2008; 492 meters), and ...

Shanghai, China, Nov. 22, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- On November 19th, led by Olympic champion and renowned table tennis player Wang Liqin, along with several other well-known athletes, over 2,000 ...

Facing the tough task of finding tenants amid an economic slowdown, the state-owned developer of Shanghai Tower, soon to be China's tallest building, has chosen JLL and CBRE Group Inc. to be its joint ...

Mere weeks into its much-anticipated soft opening, China's tallest building, the Shanghai Tower has had its first freak accident. On Monday, a glass window pane weighing a whopping 200kg fell from 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 2,073 ...

reporting from shanghai — To grasp the enormous dimensions of the Shanghai Tower, try this simple exercise: Take the 1,018-foot U.S. Bank building in downtown L.A. — the highest U.S. building west of ...

The Shanghai Tower is the tallest structure of any kind in China, the centrepiece of a group of a group of three adjacent supertall buildings in Pudong Cranes that have helped to build the Shanghai ...

With the main structure set for completion Saturday, now is a good time to take a look at Shanghai Tower, the hulking $15 billion edifice that will be, if only for a moment, China’s tallest building.

How fast can you go up? Mitsubishi Electric recently unveiled technologies for new high-speed elevators that will climb at a vertiginous rate of roughly 40 mph when they enter service in China. The ...

In our era, that 15 minutes of fame everyone is entitled to seems to have become shorter and shorter. A recently completed elevator in the Shanghai Tower now claims the title of “World’s Fastest ...

Emporis, a real estate data mining company, just announced the winners of its 2015 Skyscraper Awards, which judges new skyscrapers based on design and functionality. The Shanghai Tower, located in the ...