Gensler’s design team anticipated that three key strategies—the tower’s asymmetrical form ... the typhoon-force winds that are common in Shanghai. Using wind tunnel tests conducted in ...

In 2008 Gensler broke ground on the sustainable Shanghai Tower in the Pudong district of Shanghai, China. The tower is currently in construction and it’s one of three supertall buildings in ...

The Shanghai Tower is slated to be completed in 2014, and Art Gensler, Chairman of Gensler has stated: “We hope Shanghai Tower inspires new ideas about what sustainable tall buildings can be . . .

Architecture firm Gensler has completed its Shanghai Tower, which is now China's tallest building and the second-tallest building in the world. Located in Shanghai's burgeoning Lujiazui financial ...

“This building, essentially, is a prototype,” said Marshall Strabala, a former design director with Gensler who now has his own architecture firm and continues to consult on Shanghai Tower.

Shanghai is one of the world's most vertical cities, a metropolis where 50-story buildings are routine. At night, the cityscape is so cinematic, it has been featured in both James Bond and Mission ...

The twisting Shanghai Tower by international firm Gensler has scooped the top award of the inaugural annual American Architecture Prize. Currently the world's second tallest building, the ...

With the municipal government as a client partner, the 632-meter Shanghai Tower clearly asserts the city's ambitions and commitment to high-rise urbanism. Gensler won a competition for the super-tall ...

Global powerhouse Gensler won the Shanghai Tower commission in an invited multi-stage competition among many other leading international architects. Upon completion, the Shanghai Tower will be the ...

Gensler's Regional Director Jun Xia, the project's design architect, discussed the structure’s innovative spiraling and “futuristic” form in relationship to the other two towers in Lujiazui, the site ...

The 2,073-foot-tall Shanghai Tower, the world's second-tallest building, opens this year. More than just a skyscraper, it's a symbol of Shanghai's... Shanghai Tower: A Crown For The City's ...