18 months give or take.
It'll be at least six months before they start digging. Digging the hole will take another 8-12 months I'd imagine. From there, they'll start working on the foundations. I think we'll see this building reach ground level sometime in 2011.
I just learned that my sister's boyfriend works in the Jin Mao building. Maybe he can snap some ongoing shots of the construction! Unless he's already on this forum... he's a skyscraper freak too, apparently.
I'm absolutely in love with this tower. When it's finished it may be the most perfect building ever constructed.
^cool you should say that. It was filmed in Shanghai. The city is very popular in sci-fi flicks and ads for futuristic scenes, especially at night - most famously seen in the Dark Knight.
^cool you should say that. It was filmed in Shanghai. The city is very popular in sci-fi flicks and ads for futuristic scenes, especially at night - most famously seen in the Dark Knight.
Actually, the Dark Knight scene that you're talking about was in Hong Kong. He jumped off of the 2 International Finance Center.