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Shanghai Tower
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megatall skyscraper in Lujiazui, Shanghai, China
Shanghai Tower is a supertall skyscraper located in the Lujiazui financial district of Shanghai, China, and stands as one of the world's tallest buildings. It represents China's modern economic growth and architectural ambition, serving as a symbol of Shanghai's development as a global financial center.
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Wikidata facts
- Area
- 420000
- Official website
- www.shanghaitower.com
- Image
- Shanghai Tower in 2015 (2).jpg
- Height
- 632
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- floors below ground
- 5
- number of elevators
- 106
- floors above ground
- 128
- Commons category
- Shanghai Tower
- date of official opening
- 2014-00-00
- inception
- 2014-09-06
- native label
- 上海中心大厦
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The Shanghai Tower is a 128-story, 632-meter-tall (2,073-foot) megatall skyscraper located in Lujiazui, Pudong, Shanghai. It is currently the tallest building in China, and the world's third-tallest building by height to architectural top. It was the tallest and largest LEED-CS Platinum certified building in the world from 2016 to 2025. It was also the second tallest-building in the world, from 2015 to 2021, until the completion of Merdeka 118 in Malaysia. The Shanghai Tower also had the world's fastest elevators at a top speed of 20.5 meters per second (74 kilometers per hour; 46 miles per hour) until 2017, when it was surpassed by the Guangzhou CTF Finance Center, with its top speed of 21 meters per second (76 km/h; 47 mph).
Designed by the international design firm Gensler and owned by the Shanghai Municipal Government, it is the tallest of the world's first triple-adjacent supertall buildings in Pudong, the other two being the Jin Mao Tower and the Shanghai World Financial Center. Its tiered construction, designed for high energy efficiency, provides nine separate zones divided between office, retail and leisure use. The US-based Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat cites it as "one of the most sustainably advanced tall buildings in the world."