jin mao tower construction Archives - TravelsFinders.Com ® http://travelsfinders.com/tag/jin-mao-tower-construction Thu, 08 Sep 2016 13:07:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 Jin Mao Tower COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT SHANGHAI, CHINA http://travelsfinders.com/jin-mao-tower-commercial-development-shanghai-china.html http://travelsfinders.com/jin-mao-tower-commercial-development-shanghai-china.html#respond Thu, 08 Sep 2016 19:05:10 +0000 http://travelsfinders.com/?p=220985 ADRIAN SMITH Since the 1990s no city has seen such dramatic growth as Shanghai. As China developed economically, Shanghai acquired a vast number of new buildings, from shops and banks to office blocks and hotels. The city spread onto land once occupied by farms, but the expansion was vertical as well as horizontal. Among the crop of recent skyscrapers one of the tallest and most spectacular is the 1,380ft (4,205m) Jin Mao Tower. The tower was designed by a large team under the leadership of Adrian Smith of the firm Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (SOM), an American practice responsible for

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