Shanghai Tower, Shanghai

The Shanghai Center (s=上海中心) is a supertall skyscraper under construction in the Lujiazui area of Pudong 11 District in Shanghai. The building will rise to 580 metres, have 118 stories, use 20,300 sq metres and is projected to be completed in 2010.

Numerous proposals for designs were submitted in 2006, but the chosen final design has been kept under wraps. Skidmore, Owings and Merrill and Kohn Pedersen Fox are known to have submitted proposals.

Planning models for Lujiazui dating back to 1993 show plans for three supertall skyscrapers all next to each other. Two have already been built; the Jin Mao Building was completed in 2003 and the Shanghai World Financial Center  1  is very close to completion in 2008.

The current block assigned for the Shanghai Center, Z3-2, was for a short time a golf course, before the site was cleared for preparation.

Construction

The Shanghai Center's site was cleared in Feburary 2008, with construction starting in late-March.