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......

The WFC may not be open to visitors yet, but that has not stopped some friends of ours crazy laowai's from making their way past security guards to get to the top of the building. On several occassions they were stopped by the vigilant guards, but they tried and tried again — and, at crazy hours, too, like 5 in the morning! Climbing the 101 flight of stairs took... erm... forever... but they were......

Fire broke out today at the US$910 million 101-storey tall Shanghai World Financial Center in an elevator shaft on the 40th floor at about 4pm today. Eight fire trucks were dispatched to douse the fire, and it was eventually extinguished by 5.42 pm. There were no reports of injuries or deaths. An AP report offers an excellent recap of the numerous travails that have faced the wedge-shaped building in the last few years (some of......

We missed this when it was released last year, but we thought 人 ("Ren"), also known as the Peoples Building (but perhaps it should be called the Person Building), deserved a mention — if only for its audaciousness. This is just a proposal for a new building in Shanghai. It has not been approved yet, and we have no idea if it will be approved, or how long it would take to build if......

An article from the International Herald Tribune tells us that our soon to be completed "Shanghai Hills"/World Financial Center borrows on the mixed-used formula of the Mori company's Roppongi Hills and Atago Hills projects, both in Japan. However, it's not going to be called "Shanghai Hills," it might just end up being the World Financial Center. To get a sense of what's in store for us, we did some reading on the internet. Despite stuff......

We just read a report that says the the new Shanghai World Financial Center complex is going to be called "Shanghai Hills." But check out their official website, which seems to have been opened for business on the 20th, and introduces some of the features of this complex, which is going to be completed sometime in 2008. On the website, there's information about the hotel, world's highest observatory, shopping and business areas that will comprise......