![]() The first 5 floors are used for retail space, and office space occupies the 8th to 80th floors, the hotel occupies the 84th to 110th floors, the next 7 floors right above that are boutique office floors, and the uppermost 10 floors over 117th floor are for observation and mechanical uses. Shanghai Tower is a mixed-use building, like other skyscraper buildings it also typically functions as office, hotels, and also providing the spaces for tourism or observation, retail, parking, exhibitions and art shows. Shanghai Tower with the other two supertalls of Shanghai A closeup of the parapet of Shanghai Tower Looking down at the parapet of Shanghai TowerĪlthough the roof height of Shanghai Tower is less than 590 meters, the structure above the roof is not spire or antenna but the parapet, visually there’s no difference between a building topped with a parapet and a building reaching the same height by roof, in other words, visually it does exactly look like a 632m tower measured to roof. The render of Shanghai Tower seen from the above, showing the uppermost part comprised of parapet. The tallest building in China by structural height is a tower in Tianjin named Goldin Finance 117, which is measured 597 meters to its roof. However, the structural height of Shanghai Tower is not the tallest in China, the uppermost part of the tower is comprised of parapet, a structure that cannot provide any floor, the roof of the tower is actually at 587 meters. The video below shows how tall Shanghai Tower is compared with other tallest buildings in the world. Shanghai Tower has 128 stories above the ground, and 5 stories under the ground, the architectural height and the total height are all 632 meters, the structural height is 580 meters, the highest accessible point is at 587 meters high.Īs the originally planned spire of Shenzhen Ping An Financial Center was removed, Shanghai Tower’s height of 632 meters makes the tower the tallest building in East Asia, and the third tallest worldwide, only after Burj Khalifa in Dubai and Merdeka 118 in Kuala Lumpur. ![]() After getting off of the ferry, Shanghai Tower can definitely be seen for its significant height, just walk toward it, it may take 5-10 minutes to get there. ![]() Maybe it’s not as convenient as subway, but by this way you can enjoy the views of the river and the cityscape. The good thing is that the basement of Shanghai Tower is connected to a subway station, tourists can take Line 2 to directly arrive at Shanghai Tower.Īnother way is to take the ferry, this is a good way for people wandering at the Bund, just go to the wharf and buy a ticket, it costs only 2 Chinese Yuan. There’s a river named Huangpu River between the district where Shanghai Tower is located in and the Bund, and confusingly no bridges are built near the area, visitors cannot directly walk there from the Bund. Shanghai Tower seen from the Shanghai City God Temple Due to its significant height, Shanghai Tower is very easy to be seen from the Bund and many other different places in the city. Shanghai Tower is situated very close to both the Jin Mao Tower and Shanghai World Financial Center, which are two other tallest buildings in the city. Shanghai Tower and Shanghai World Financial Center
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