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In 2008, six of the world’s ten tallest new buildings were completed in China, including the 492-meter Shanghai World Financial Center, which is only slightly shorter than the world’s highest man-made structure, Taipei 101 in Taiwan.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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In 2008, six of the world’s ten tallest new buildings were completed in China, including the 492-meter Shanghai World Financial Center, which is only slightly shorter than the world’s highest man-made structure, Taipei 101 in Taiwan.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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In 2008, six of the world’s ten tallest new buildings were completed in China, including the 492-meter Shanghai World Financial Center, which is only slightly shorter than the world’s highest man-made structure, Taipei 101 in Taiwan.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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Spare modernist rationalism is not dead either, but Kohn Pedersen Fox's Shanghai World Financial Center has a grace to it that is almost never found in its midcentury forebears.
Heights of Fancy James Gardner 2011
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The company also built Disneyland in Hong Kong, and the 492-meter high Shanghai World Financial Center.
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The 101-story Shanghai World Financial Center cost $1.15 billion and took more than 10 years to build.
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If completed according to plan, the Ping An tower could supersede the 492-meter Shanghai World Financial Center as the tallest building in mainland China, and could be taller than the 632-meter Shanghai Tower, which is also slated for completion in 2014.
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The 101-story, 492-meter-high Shanghai World Financial Center finally opened its doors last week, becoming the world's second tallest building after Taipei 101, which has a lower roofline but a higher spire.
Scaling New Heights 2008
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The 101-floor Shanghai World Financial Center stands at roughly 1,614 feet, 161 feet taller than the Empire State Building (and 162 feet shorter than the planned Freedom Tower in Lower Manhattan).
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One of those buildings is the long-awaited 101-story Shanghai World Financial Center, slated to be mainland China's tallest building according to the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat.
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