[staff]

Yeah, great update!

[Norman Y.]

Thanks, I hope that can trigger othes to update this forum.
Hopefully to see North Tower construction start!

[staff]

:previous:
It should rise above ground very soon!

[Fabb]

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3163/2872883990_538558e9a0_b.jpg

Photo, christopher.leung

[giallo]

Sept 27th

The SIFC really makes it's mark in the skyline from this view

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3023/2897067769_458a3bf623_o.jpg

[staff]

Love the different hues of the facade of the SWFC in that shot.

[Fabb]

IFC is topped out already.
So beautiful, and, clearly, the taller version would have been perfect for that site.
This time, the city planners lacked vision...

[Urban Zombie®]

Sept. 28th:


http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3083/2909975910_2003a52c75_o.jpg

[Fabb]

The little one with the flying saucer on top has been eclipsed.
It used to be the eye-catcher.

[Rise To The Top]

Sept 27th

The SIFC really makes it's mark in the skyline from this view

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3023/2897067769_458a3bf623_o.jpg

Looks huge (width wise) from this angle. Glad to see that gap filled finally.

[Rise To The Top]

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3050/2859662456_0658b0d4bd_b.jpg

What is the building that is just rising (5-8 stories) that is inbetween the Merriland building and the IFC?

[Rise To The Top]

Does anyone know what that is?

[giallo]

Not sure. I'll have to go to the Lu and check out the site.

[Urban Zombie®]

October 18th:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3050/2951796114_c70c77eb7c_o.jpg

[staff]

Does anyone know what that is?

z0rg posted a rendering of it on SSC. It's quite a small "cube".

[staff]

The taller tower is now finally rising;

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3035/3014477418_10363277b1_b.jpg

[giallo]

^Sweet.
I can't wait until they finish building the SIFC, the new subway line and the pedestrian overpass. That area is such a mess right now that I don't ever bother going.

[Fabb]

The taller tower is now finally rising;

Great news. Thanks !

[NYC4Life]

What an amazing boomtown.

[staff]

The taller tower is popping out of the ground..

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3237/3065274219_f3832a383b_o.jpg


Too bad it will cover the view of the Shanghai Tower completely when seen from the Oriental Pearl Tower's lowest "pearl". :)

[Rise To The Top]

December 11th, flickr, by sano1997

and that "Little" cube isnt so little anymore... someone should find out how big that thing is actually going to be.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3085/3109377068_614104b88f_b.jpg

[staff]

:previous:
I believe I posted a rendering not too long ago, not sure where though.. I'll try to find it.

It's not tall though..

[Rise To The Top]

this thing?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v641/z0rg/Cube.jpg

This is either an entirely different building, or the rendering is off by several stories and it is not a cube...

[The Chemist]

^Sweet.
I can't wait until they finish building the SIFC, the new subway line and the pedestrian overpass. That area is such a mess right now that I don't ever bother going.

It sure is a mess. Or as they say in Chinese, 乱七八糟!The new pedestrian overpass should certainly help things.

What new subway line is going through there? I wasn't aware that they were building a new subway line through Lujiazui!

[staff]

this thing?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v641/z0rg/Cube.jpg

This is either an entirely different building, or the rendering is off by several stories and it is not a cube...
No, this building isn't even in Lujiazui, but closer to Century Park iirc!

[Rise To The Top]

any updates?

[staff]

The lower tower is almost completely clad by now, and the taller one is rising.

http://www2.xiangshu.com/UploadFiles/Day_090105/13_335047_84c05ff8c2a87a1.jpg

http://www2.xiangshu.com/UploadFiles/Day_090105/13_335047_addec69a159c03c.jpg

[Rise To The Top]

The lower tower is almost completely clad by now, and the taller one is rising.

http://www2.xiangshu.com/UploadFiles/Day_090105/13_335047_84c05ff8c2a87a1.jpg

That ice looks kinda cool on the cladding :P.

[Jonovision]

That's not real ice is it?!

[staff]

Ice? Can't be. I don't think Shanghai has had temperatures below 0 degrees this winter - and even if it has, I think you'd need much lower temperatures for ice to form like that on the facade?

[Rise To The Top]

well, it has been kinda cool there for the past few days, and if the building doesnt have heat yet, it is possible. Local weather logs show that it was -1 degree on the 1st of the month, and it has been below freezing on and off for the past few nights.

[muppet]

Maybe its the protective plastic peel on the windows. I remember the SWFC had that on it for a while.

[staff]

Why would ice form vertically like that on a building wall? I don't think I've ever seen such a thing before? It has to be something else.

[Rise To The Top]

High humidity, low temperatures, and a facade that isn't perfectly vertical all put together could mean ice. Could be plastic covering, could be ice.

[marques]

The second tower has already started. They work on the core and also preparing the first floor. I guess that, at the usual speed in Shanghai, the tower will be topped out by the end of the year.

[JDRCRASH]

That would be cool if it really was ice.

[giallo]

The SIFC site is on fire. Looks to be the workers' residence or the leasing office.

http://shanghaiist.com/attachments/shanghailaine/fire_lujiazui.jpg



http://shanghaiist.com/attachments/shanghailaine/fire_lujiazui2.jpg

[Austin55]

Man, another one! looks like a dumpster fire, nothing major thankfully.

[Rise To The Top]

Any updates?

[The Chemist]

^I was in Lujiazui yesterday - no pictures, but the second tower looked to be about 8 or 9 floors above ground now.

[staff]

This is the last update from SSC (June 27 by Wind Watcher at Flickr);

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3661/3667179856_7ccfa8db2a_b.jpg

[Patrick]

Whats that domed building!?

[JACKinBeantown]

Man, that's some smoggy air.

[Fabb]

Oct. 29

http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/5492/p1020708d.jpg

[staff]

Note the HSCB sign on the completed twin.

[hkskyline]

http://www.globalphotos.org/shanghai/20091226/IMG_5972.jpg

http://www.globalphotos.org/shanghai/20091226/IMG_5956.jpg

http://www.globalphotos.org/shanghai/20091226/IMG_5992.jpg

http://www.globalphotos.org/shanghai/20091226/IMG_6006.jpg

http://www.globalphotos.org/shanghai/20091226/IMG_6056.jpg