Lego Architecture 21039 Shanghai (Шанхай) [14/160] Shanghai tower

Building tall in Shanghai comes with its own set of

challenges: the city sits upon sandy river delta soil and is

often buﬀeted by tropical typhoons. So when the architects

and engineers wanted to build the tallest building in China,

they had to be innovative. They placed the entire structure

upon massive 200 ft. (70 m) long concrete piles to provide

the perfect foundation, while the tower’s elegant spiralling

cylindrical shape is also aerodynamic, reducing wind

loads by 24%.

With a height of 2,073 ft. (632 meters), Shanghai Tower is

the second tallest building in the world, but has the world’s

highest observation deck at 1,840 ft. (561 m) and the

fastest elevators that can speed up and down the building

at 40 mph (65 km/h).

Shanghai Tower