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Photo Of The Day: The Shanghai Tower Rises
Today's Photo Of The Day comes from Lawrence Wang, who captured this astounding image of the Shanghai Tower currently under construction. After its completion, the Shanghai Tower will be the tallest building in China and second tallest building in the world, after the almighty Burj Khalifa. This image perfectly captures the chaotic landscape of Shanghai, dominated by glass, steel and concrete.
Pudong, the district of Shanghai that the tower resides in, is a central financial hub of China and has undergone an extraordinary amount of development in the past two decades. Going from nothing but grass and trees to having some of the tallest buildings in the world. It is nothing short of spectacular and indicative of the economic progress that China has seen in the modern age.
As always, if you have a great photo you'd like to share with us, upload them to our Gadling Flickr Pool and it may be selected as our Photo Of The Day.
[Photo credit: Lawrence Wang]
Filed under: Photos, Asia, China, Photo of the Day
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
zuska Feb 9th 2013 9:34PM
Congratulations Mr. Wang on capturing a most interesting photo of current construction phase of worlds tallest double-skin supertall designed by Marshall Strabala. Strabala has now designed 3 of the 10 tallest projects in the world,
Burj, Nanjing Zifeng Tower and now Shanghai Tower.
Check out his flickr site for some equally interesting current photos.
Strabala continues to be chief architect 2006 to present 2013 with his own arch firm 2Define Architecture. Thanks again for such a good image