Shanghai Tower: Asia's new tallest skyscraper presents a future vision of 'vertical cities'
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After seven years of construction and $2.4bn (£1.5bn) spent, Shanghai Tower, Asia's tallest skyscraper and the second tallest building in the world, will soon be opening to the public.
Located in the Pudong financial district, the 632m tower composed of 128 floors is a striking addition to the Shanghai landscape, not least because of its unique spiralling structure.
Composed of a tapering outer skin of glass and steel that wraps itself around the building's circular core, Gensler, the American firm behind the design, claims this twisting shape reduces wind load on the building by 24%, thus saving approximately $58m (£37m) in steel and structure costs.
"We had the idea that this building was really coming out of the ground and reaching towards the heavens. And that idea of the building tapering, turning and twisting gave it that dynamic that it was moving up towards the heavens, if you will," Dan Winey, the executive architect behind Shanghai Tower, tells IBTimes UK.
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