a blog by Peter Leonard
This is, according to some measurements, the world’s tallest building:
The elevator ride to the top is surprisingly low-key, if a bit blue:
Going up to the top gets you a view down onto the roofs of other, improbably tall skyscrapers:
It’s hard to communicate just how tall this thing is, even in the context of Shanghai’s other tall buildings. A human being for scale:
Contrasts between the super-architectural-scale and the human-scale are common in the Pudong district, where gardeners work at the feet of enormous monuments:
Across the river, on the Bund, the architectural legacy of an earlier period is reflected in the European-style buildings:
