Good news for Shanghai's window cleaners: They won't be out of a job any time soon. According to a report released on Monday by Skyscrapers Magazine, there is a new skyscraper built every five days in China. This means that by 2016 there will be 800, four times the number in the US. more ›

The bond between Liverpool and Shanghai could soon be set to tighten if planning permission is granted for a Lujiazui style skyscraper, the ‘Shanghai Tower’, to be built smack bang in the middle of Liverpool’s historical waterfront. more ›

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 Tongji University. It will be designed to look like a coiled dragon, the architects said. At its completion, the building will be 118 stories high and 79m taller than China's former tallest building, the Taipei 101, currently the world's tallest building. more ›