For those of you that still haven't gotten around to your own illegal hike up the World Financial Center, you'll be glad to know you can soon get a bird's eye view of the city from the top of that building without risking arrest. Yes, the building that's been through many trials and tribulations will finally be open this Saturday. Apparently, the gallery located on the 100th floor of the skyscraper at a height of......

It's finally coming! The "big one" eagerly predicted by Shanghaiist in 2006 — China's tallest building will begin construction this year in Shanghai. At 580m, the Shanghai Center will top a triangle of impressive towers with the 420-meter-high Jin Mao Tower and the 492-meter-high Shanghai World Financial Center in the Lujiazui district of Pudong. The building will be designed by Gensler, a U.S. firm, in conjunction with the Shanghai-based Architectural Design & Research Institute of......

Once in a while, we feel trapped in a sea of ordinary looking restaurants lodged in the bowels of malls. Nizang promised nothing of that. The restaurant is located in the back of a housing estate along Dongchang Lu in Lujiazui. A short stroll past apartments and small shops will land you in front of Nizang’s blazing neon signboard. Enter through a stone-cobbled pathway and flickering bamboo trees to the soundtrack of quiet running water,......

By Sue Anne Tay The search for the perfect lunch in Lujiazui is also the perfect sojourn to the hum drum office life. Our half-Jamaican colleague told us that Shanghai’s first Caribbean restaurant just opened up near our office. The food, he raved, was both reasonably priced and delicious. The next week, armed with a fistful of 10RMB bills, we were determined to find our sliver of island paradise after a frantic morning at work.......

By Sue Ann Tay The two-day Lujiazui Forum kicked off in Pudong this morning. This is Shanghai’s first high-level international finance forum that brings together influential government officials, financial leaders and scholars to discuss how to further the financial reform and market opening of China. The gathering of Chinese and international financial glitterati is indeed impressive. People’s Bank of China Governor Zhou Xiaochuan opens the forum, with the first panel discussion involving China’s insurance, banking......

Photos by Marc Dominic Cirkel Some of you have been asking on our Facebook page (remember to sign up as a Fan!) if there will be an update of the Shanghaiist logo once the WFC — you know, the building that had to be redesigned because it reminded people too much of the Japanese flag, took forever to be built because of a property glut, was almost burnt down, and recently suffered a security......

You heard that right, ladies and gentlemen... Our city's foresighted urban planners, God bless their hearts, have looked into their glassball and decided that Shanghai needs another Lujiazui — and really, soon — in three years to be exact. Well if they were able to build Lujiazui I in ten years, we have every confidence they can build Lujiazui II in three. Never ever ever doubt the ambitions of Shanghai city planners. Just build first,......