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 ...

It has been more than eight years since ground was broken in the city's Lujjiazui business district but the stunning Shanghai Tower will finally throw open its doors to the public this year, taking ...

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 ...

Shanghai Construction Group ranks protecting the crews working 300 meters above grade and higher—especially while erecting the cantilevered steel structure and the curtain-wall bracing system—as the ...

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 ...

If you want to get a clear picture of the impact of China's economic rise over the past 35 years, and of how China sees itself in our rapidly evolving global economy, I recommend you visit Shanghai's ...

China's modernization has been an epic journey over the last decade. Under the leadership of the Communist Party of China (CPC), China has become an attractive destination for many foreigners. Many ...

A hotel in Shanghai claims to have opened China's highest hotel in the world's second tallest skyscraper: The J Hotel Shanghai Tower. The hotel has top floors inside the Shanghai Tower around 2,000 ...

Shanghai’s already-hot hotel scene just keeps getting hotter. The J Hotel Shanghai Tower, which opened on June 19, isn’t just another high-end property. It claims to be the highest hotel in the world.

While their countrymen prepared to attend to the Olympic ideals of “citius, altius, fortius” – faster, higher, stronger – two Russian thrillseekers traveled to China to put at least one of those to ...