The Shanghai Tower, Lujiazui, Pudong, Shanghai, China

“The Shanghai Tower represents a new way of defining and creating cities. By incorporating best practices in sustainability and high-performance design, by weaving the building into the urban fabric of Shanghai and drawing community life into the building, Shanghai Tower redefines the role of tall buildings in contemporary cities and raises the bar for the next generation of super-highrises.”
The principal architect of the project, Jun Xia, was quoted as saying, “With the topping out of Shanghai Tower, the Lujiazui trio will serve as a stunning representation of our past, our present and China’s boundless future." Gu Jianping, general manager of the Shanghai Tower Construction Company, expressed the firm's wish "to provide higher quality office and shopping space, as well as contribute to the completeness of the city skyline's and the entire region's functionality". Jianping also hinted at the future possibility of a public museum in the building. In January 2014, the tower passed the 600-metre (2,000 ft) mark, as its construction entered its final phase. In February 2014, two Russian urban explorers, Vadim Makhorov and Vitaly Raskalov, climbed the Shanghai Tower and released video footage taken from a crane at the tower's top. The tower's interior construction is scheduled for completion in 2014, and it will open to the public in 2015.
• Issues
In the first months of 2012, cracks began appearing in the roads near the tower's construction site. These were blamed on ground subsidence, which was likely caused by excessive groundwater extraction in the Shanghai area, rather than by the weight of the Shanghai Tower.