Several terrific new photos of Shanghai Tower have been recently posted on Marshall Strabala's Flickr studio.
Strabala is Chief Architect of Shanghai Tower and has led the design of the facility for about eight years. These pics were taken by Shanghai-based photographer, Nicky Almasy.
The Shanghai Tower, currently the world's second-largest skyscraper, reached its full height of 632 meters as the final beam was hoisted atop the 137-floor building's 20-story crown structure yesterday, Shanghai Daily reports.
The three-meter beam tied with a red ribbon was lifted by a crane on top of the skyscraper. Its crown features a sightseeing platform and a park which will include a 2,000 square-meter screen and lighting system for laser shows.
SHANGHAI Tower reached its full height of 632 meters yesterday, with the final beam placed on top of its 20-story crown structure.
A crane on top of the skyscraper hoisted the final 3-meter beam — tied with a red ribbon for the occasion — from the ground and carefully lowered it into position.
The crown includes a sightseeing platform at the 560-meter mark and floors for power and telecommunications equipment.
It also features a state-of-the-art damping system to stabilize the 137-floor skyscraper.
The 15 billion yuan (US$2.42 billion) tower in the Lujiazui financial hub in the Pudong New Area is the world’s second-tallest building — surpassed only by Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, which soars to 829.8m.
However, it will slip to third-tallest in 2016, with the completion of the 660-meter Ping’an International Financial Center in Shenzhen, in the southern province of Guangdong.
ArchDaily.com, a very popular architecture website with more than 1 million daily visitors, has a great new story and video on Shanghai Tower's construction and design and its Chief Architect Marshall Strabala --
posted today at: http://www.archdaily.com/535151/shan...-construction/
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