Shanghai Wheelock Square / 大上海會德豐廣場
Address: Nanjing Road West / Huashan Road
Studio: KPF

http://img363.imageshack.us/img363/4166/shwheelocksquare27di.jpg

http://img487.imageshack.us/img487/8770/shwheelocksquaremodel27ua.jpg

http://img513.imageshack.us/img513/9591/shwheelocksquare8op.jpg

March 2006 (giallo)
http://www.inclearimage.com/giallo/mar8wheelock2.jpg

July 2006 (giallo)
http://static.flickr.com/77/191904903_3e1619a5e5_o.jpg

August 2006 (xitek forum)
http://s07.picshome.com/04b/84787_1155030722.jpg

September 2006 (giallo)
http://www.inclearimage.com/giallo/sept19wheelock.jpg

^^ Almost 7 months since the last pic posted. This tower was forgotten in DN Archives. Updates?

Why no replies??? That's a friggin awesome tower!!!!

nanjing west road ! nice position, but where is huasha road?华沙路? 拉萨路?

nanjing west road ! nice position, but where is huasha road?华沙路? 拉萨路?

Huashan, sorry. Copied wrong :D It's just next to Jingan's Buddhist temple.

wow, never seen any render or construction pic from that tower

Well, nothing is above ground anyway, so updates aren't that interesting anyway right now.

As soon as it starts rising above ground I'll treat you all to some fresh updates. :)

oliver999,
It's located between Nanjing Xilu and Yan'An GaoJia, in the same crossing as Jing An Si but diagonally from it. The plot isn't huge, so I guess it will pretty much be the tower and not much around it - wihch I like.

No pics of this year?

I loved this tower since when I saw it first.It has a simple yet elegant design.We need more updates :(

Great design...!!

Since they are delaying so much, let's hope they are planning to increase the height at least 2m so that it will become another supertall project for Shanghai :D

Cool design

Nice design, seems to be the typical look lately though, especially for Asian countries.

That render cracks me up. They didn't even try to edit out the smog, and simply stuck a blue sky in the background.

^
What's even funnier is that it's a snippet from a pano I took a couple of years ago--actually, there wasn't much smog at all--just used a crappy lense.

Back before my days of watermarking.

A bit boring. But it will look tall.

Any updates, or photos?? it should be at least halfway up by now, and yes, its a simple design but with banal eligance, like the World Trade Center was.

Very nice tower, I like the splitting effect from bottom to top.

Very nice project!
:okay:

Another nice one for Shanghai!

anybody from Shanghai please update this project. Thanks a million!

should be some meters over ground now

I don't understand why a developer would choose to build to 298 meters. Go two meters higher, and you'll have ten times the attention. I guess a height like 298 meters suggests to me that the developers of this tower don't want that much attention, but I can't imagine why.

building permit issues. The city may not allow a 300 meter tower in that location.

well why don't they loop off 50 metres off the tower, how is 2 metres going to make a differnece? Is there a large flow of air traffic going through where this tower's being built?

any update photo?

look like mini ICC :)

July 31st
http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r5/z0rgg/borrosa.jpg

wow thanks for the photo zorg, you have always been active and contributing about shanghai :)

I don't understand why a developer would choose to build to 298 meters. Go two meters higher, and you'll have ten times the attention. I guess a height like 298 meters suggests to me that the developers of this tower don't want that much attention, but I can't imagine why.


it's the 8 that counts maybe.

wow thats nice.

Very elegant design. Nice to see another new building without wearing a 'hat'.

If the last photo is on July 31, 2007, it looks to me like there is a few months of site work and demolition work to do. I don't see any indication of footings (new) or other new foundation works, However, at least there is something going on, that's a plus, this is my favorite Shanghai tower.!!!

Update
http://www.skyscrapers.cn/forum/attachments/20070915_b80d8e093531f0b2a29bRyHTrJoh1riH.jpg

^^

What is that area full of trees. If that's a park it's one very beautiful looking park. I hope that stays there.

Finally an update...thanks a lot zOrg :)

Gratias for that nice overview pic, zOrg.

I also had expected that Wheelock Square would stand over ground now, but at least there's some progress going on. There's a second crane, and the tower seems to be ready to get up. This construction site exists now for about 3 years, so this building could've been almost finished at best!

But other towers in Jing'an also had delay. For instance Dong Hai Plaza (supposable 217m), the grey glass tower in the background of z0rgs pic, has been on hold halfway up for a long time, and finally seems to be finished with a different design.

Maybe Wheelock Square will at last give some attention to this place of Jing'an's new skyline (especially when Huamin King Tower follows). The focus is so much on Pudong, that this relative outlying place of Shanghai is prevalently overlooked.

I've heard about this project for a while now. Seeing the construction pictures, I'm wondering why its taken so long to develop...

well why don't they loop off 50 metres off the tower, how is 2 metres going to make a differnece? Is there a large flow of air traffic going through where this tower's being built?

Because they want to build as tall as possible with out infringing upon existing policies.

and i may not be air traffic, it may be other things that we're not aware of.

heck it may even be building cost and projected demand.

people didn't just pick this number for no reasons. Especially in a business decision.

This looks to me like concrete vertical columns and core, i'll assume the floor system to be of a truss type, with corrugated steel deck and concrete. slow to start, but once typical floors begin it should rise at a steady rate, (like the ICC Hong Kong.)

Can't wait for this one to gain some elevation.!!!

soooooooooooo close to supertall status it kills me.
o well.
i'll have to get over it i guess.

^^

What is that area full of trees. If that's a park it's one very beautiful looking park. I hope that stays there.

That's Jingan Gongyuan, very beautiful :)

I hope that too, however, there is no (modern) park in this world I'd miss if they build a cute megatall on its place.

That's Jingan Gongyuan, very beautiful :)

I hope that too, however, there is no (modern) park in this world I'd miss if they build a cute megatall on its place.

there are some parks around city centers of shanghai.

like zhonghan park near dragon dream plazza.
people park around people square center
luxun park near hongkou stadium
lujiazui greenland in lujiazui area
the jingam park is near jingan tample center
even in xvjiahui, you still can find shanghai jiaotong university campus.

z0rg, have you been these places?

hope you enjoy them

there are some parks around city centers of shanghai.

like zhonghan park near dragon dream plazza.
people park around people square center
luxun park near hongkou stadium
lujiazui greenland in lujiazui area
the jingam park is near jingan tample center
even in xvjiahui, you still can find shanghai jiaotong university campus.

z0rg, have you been these places?

hope you enjoy them

Yep, I visited all of them but Luxun place :D I visted Tianshan Gongyuan many mornings too since it was next to my school.

Shanghai has many little parks (not enough though) and very few big ones. It's a good model, imo. Huge parks are a waste of land and they break the urban continuum. Also, they might become a focus of crime, prostitution, etc. And they use to lack quality too because of the scale.

It is better to have many high quality little parks everywhere. I enjoyed Shanghai parks very much because they are so well kept.

Has the elevation changed, or is this tower still at 948' .???

Awesome.

Beautiful

http://www.img.sh.cn/sh/05/16.jpg

http://www.skyscrapers.cn/forum/attachments/20071006_7c171b100351f3a946feo55iXW3z9dNQ.jpg
http://www.skyscrapers.cn/forum/attachments/20071006_f90710b22462010e0150hoJAZaXqicfl.jpg
http://www.skyscrapers.cn/forum/attachments/20071006_b9ac9fdc0e12691c4a75VQiJ0XoP8CdK.jpg

good work

Great update, oliver!

this would be puxi no1 by roof when finished XD

only 3 pages for such a brilliant building, a pity.

yeah because shanghai is not in usa T.T

^
No, it's because this project has been "U/C" for nearly two years and Oliver's pictures show the exent of its "progression" in that amount of time.

^^whatever he means..

its good to has this awesome building started anyway :cheers:

^^whatever he means..

its good to has this awesome building started anyway :cheers:

this project stop for 2 years, but the constuction site looks busy now! maybe this building will be fast rising from now on!

yeap, looks very busy XD

hey this is very close to my apartment in shanghai, last time i was there this january i didnt notice any signs of construction. it certainly is a nice addition to my neighborhood.

okay i think really getting old, i didnt see my own post, moderator if you can please delete this one.

hey this is very close to my apartment in shanghai, last time i was there this january i didnt notice any signs of construction. it certainly is a nice addition to my neighborhood.

are you a japanese guy lived in china before? lol. this building will be a new contribute of puxi skyline.

are you a japanese guy lived in china before? lol. this building will be a new contribute of puxi skyline.

no i am a chinese guy born in taiwan, raised in the us, lived in japan and spent sometime in shanghai.

no i am a chinese guy born in taiwan, raised in the us, lived in japan and spent sometime in shanghai.

^^ :) that's a good experience.

This building should stand out quite lots from the skyline considering its basically a supertall at 298 meters.

so when do we expect this thing to be erected?

Thanks for the update oliver999, I'm really glad to see this one rise at last, and you are my eyes in Shanghai..!!

so when do we expect this thing to be erected?

it has just started to rise....so i think topping out maybe early 2009 and fully completed end of 2009

Update, from Cityrain's thread
http://img120.imageshack.us/img120/7411/1126521192971088zp5.jpg

^^yup i saw that too, the building looks huge~

Update, from Cityrain's thread
http://img120.imageshack.us/img120/7411/1126521192971088zp5.jpg

rising so fast!!!
only after 18 days, they has finished severl storey.

^^ only China! they run it 24/7

^^ only China! they run it 24/7

lol 24 hours 7 days.

i was soo suprised by the speed :)

but its not actual floor, they need to pour concrete in it and stuff,

from jerryyang

http://photo1.bababian.com/upload4/20071105/E5CC7DB1B520FFF561E3B596F753DF07.jpg

Nov 30th, by selftears
http://www.skyscrapers.cn/forum/attachments/20071130_d9d04c5400c419559f80xhKZlqcQ3az7.jpg

Well it looks like it might be up to the first actual office floor.

I hope it's not allways going to be shrouded in the green covering..!!

By whisky, from ss.cn
http://www.efengge.com/photo/y03.jpg

Thanks for the posting the photo zOrg....

By jerryang
http://www.panoramio.com/photos/original/6314617.jpg

http://pdyz01.mofile.com/p/1/2007/12/3/FB/FBV8OVSLTG_100.jpg

When I was looking at the photos of the base, taken from street level I wondered if the base was not at a true 90 degrees at the corners, now it's confermed that it's actually a parallelogram.

this is one of my favorite towers going up worldwide at the moment, and this added yet simple aspect of this tower makes it even more interesting, when its complete the view up when standing in the plaza will have a slightly "enhanced" overhang becouse of this slight angel in the walls,

Outstanding..... thanks to whomever took the photos, (esp the top down view) and to zOrg for posting them...........

^^should be like that

http://img487.imageshack.us/img487/8770/shwheelocksquaremodel27ua.jpg

By jerryang

http://pdkm02.mofile.com/p/1/2008/1/20/AB/ABQHNVOYA3_100.jpg

http://pdkm02.mofile.com/p/1/2008/1/20/FM/FM1VUG79AV_100.jpg

http://pdkm02.mofile.com/p/1/2008/1/20/09/090GU2XV2J_100.jpg

http://pdkm02.mofile.com/p/1/2008/1/20/GP/GPKBKX8JIP_100.jpg

it's is hugh, btw, does this building have a core?

it's is hugh, btw, does this building have a core?

Of course it does, look at the overhead shot in post #78, one of the cranes is in the corner of the core, the columns on this one are massive, understandable as this one is almost 1000' high. It looks to be about 8 floors out of the ground, and moving much faster than i thought.

I'm sure the cladding will be following soon, in the same way that it is on the Trump tower in Chicago. This tower, (at 1.8 million sq. ft.) is going to be AWESOME....!!!!

this tower is massive and another great addition to the shanghai skyline any new updates or have they stopped construction due to snow?>

This will be a bueatifull tower, thanks for the updates

Feb 18 by jerryang.
http://pddl02.mofile.com/p/1/2008/2/20/24/24C2F30J2S_100.jpg

Great design, I like this one a lot. :okay:

nice updates

This tower is going to look absolutely monstrous seen from the Yan'An Expressway. As of today there are no really tall towers next to the freeway, except for the Regent Hotel which is fairly tall.

would shanghai ever develop puxi? the same way it has with lujiazui because from the pics this thing is huge and could be the start of yet another building boom

April 23 by jerryang
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http://pic.yupoo.com/jerryang05/317945718eeb/me7bmobi.jpg

http://pic.yupoo.com/jerryang05/147815718eeb/fux2urod.jpg

has risen alot since the last update :)

May 1 by jerryang

http://pic.yupoo.com/jerryang05/1083757c175d/6khfabet.jpg

http://pic.yupoo.com/jerryang05/2657357d3dbe/0mhm045o.jpg

http://pic.yupoo.com/jerryang05/6723857d3dca/ouxmgemo.jpg

http://pic.yupoo.com/jerryang05/0179557d3dd7/z5qpyfpe.jpg

http://pic.yupoo.com/jerryang05/9139757d3de3/76i1uqpm.jpg

Wow, that's another nice building for a nice city like Shanghai. :okay:

Thanks for the updates guys, she's looking good and thick, (lots of concrete)

From Yanan Lu
http://pic.yupoo.com/tangwhisky/2939158aa4e6/custom.jpg

http://pic.yupoo.com/tangwhisky/6142858aa6e2/custom.jpg

May 18 by jerryang
http://pic.yupoo.com/jerryang05/05201593adfb/t8x8ab3d.jpg

http://pic.yupoo.com/jerryang05/71005593ae04/13oeed9x.jpg

http://pic.yupoo.com/jerryang05/79326593ae0f/j2krubrt.jpg

Most cities put their tallest buildings together, not Shanghai.
This building would have looked great in the central cluster.

June 16th sees this project still putting along at a snail's pace. Seriously, I think tortoises have gone through entire life cycles faster than this building has been rising.

Anyway:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3162/2583738284_4b635fa071_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3275/2583738266_7725783471_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3262/2583738242_0ccf4d8502_o.jpg

Sorry for the scitte quality of the pictures.

very similar facade to the SWFC IMO

^
It's hard to tell from those shots, but the glass is much grayer than SWFC's...but you're more or less correct. It's going to be a glass monolith.

wow Jing'an is becoming quite the business district. A dozen more of these sleek tasteful glass offices and you have a legit CBD here (as opposed to the dull, impractically wide, 9-5 town that is Lujiazui)

Nice with some updates of this building, finally. Thanks, T.

June 29 - By jerryang
http://i29.tinypic.com/e0qkk.jpg

http://i30.tinypic.com/2m5auts.jpg

July 2nd,

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3069/2631165591_997cfe86f2_o.jpg

By ryu777
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3226/2657668982_84c56f238a_b.jpg

July 14 - By jerryang - From skyscrapers.cn
http://pic.yupoo.com/jerryang05/250705de13a1/9ltv9qcg.jpg

http://pic.yupoo.com/jerryang05/056305de133e/z3kgz1lt.jpg

http://pic.yupoo.com/jerryang05/501975de1332/v5omrbpf.jpg

By ryu777
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3226/2657668982_84c56f238a_b.jpg


^^^^^^

What a BIG BIG BIG skyline :nuts:.

What crazy city with tons of crazy crapers! Think about the new craper APP of +600m(gensler architects) in the background en the rest of new tall buildings coming up!

The tapering effect is clearly visible now when seen from some angles;

July 21st

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3275/2691003351_3254a42c1d_o.jpg

July 26 by jerryang
http://pic.yupoo.com/jerryang05/999945ee9a41/ik9l8gzb.jpg

z0rg,
Do you know where Mr. Yang has taken those photos from (same angle as his last update)?


July 29,

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3051/2713099122_f1bd8bb0b7_o.jpg

This building is soo thin, It will look much taller :)

The tapering effect is clearly visible now when seen from some angles;

July 21st

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3275/2691003351_3254a42c1d_o.jpg

wow staff you are so brave.........if i was taking that shot, i would have waited until the girl has gone pass lol!

:lol:

^
I would have waited until she was naked! Better luck next time, Staff. :D

:D

Crappy weather today. Doesn't stop me though. :D

Aug 3rd,


Cladding is rising higher and higher,
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3034/2727068395_1019a3c9e7_o.jpg


North side. Cladding on three sides of the tower now,
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2346/2727895334_62103c78d4_o.jpg

August 7th, more cladding going on:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3066/2740449749_5d8c443e1d_o.jpg



http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3263/2740449761_9de5d4086c_o.jpg



http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3136/2740449763_25259baed5_o.jpg

Wow, cladding looks great when the weather is clear. Reminds me a bit of the ICC cladding.

^
Totally. There's also some structural similarities between this and ICC. Can't complain.

Actually it's kind of a blend between the ICC and the One Island East (how overlooked is that tower btw?).

Aug 10 - By jerryang
http://pic.yupoo.com/jerryang05/375746013ad4/nn8lghfe.jpg

Great view! We don't get to see many pics of the West end of Shanghai. The Maxdo looks lonely...

August 17 by jerryang
http://pic.yupoo.com/jerryang05/0265260bbd4e/zvzxrn21.jpg

Only 2 metres away and its not counted for supertall...

August 24 by jerryang
http://pic.yupoo.com/jerryang05/70667614fa03/mc7hlyyo.jpg

http://pic.yupoo.com/jerryang05/59899614fa0a/ngwoz0hh.jpg

August 27 by jerryang
http://pic.yupoo.com/jerryang05/85112618d8be/q3armgmp.jpg

http://pic.yupoo.com/jerryang05/14906618d8dd/s86butk6.jpg

August 28th:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3051/2805565108_9c12ffd58e.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3274/2805565116_0f39f60201_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3285/2805565112_9bec8317dd_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3254/2804710967_8dfed0c8c0_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3085/2804710971_dcc8d8210f.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3105/2805565120_789932d24d_o.jpg

September 7 by jerryang
http://pic.yupoo.com/jerryang05/73119626232a/79r39vbp.jpg

pfff, could they just increase the height by two, TWO meters? Only the height of my maths teacher.

would be a very nice supertall. Now its a very nice skyscraper though :)

Sept. 9th:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3233/2839579326_b62d7451b2_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3270/2838754329_3bf650e59c_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3095/2838754321_95f26625f5_o.jpg

love the glass
classic

September 15 by jerrryang
http://pic.yupoo.com/jerryang05/589086319eeb/zszj0fpl.jpg

http://pic.yupoo.com/jerryang05/406516319ef1/sr3t4gcr.jpg

http://pic.yupoo.com/jerryang05/404176319ee7/s5pz4sj7.jpg

Can you upload the images to imageshack or something? Can't see them. :(

Sept. 18th:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3102/2867822164_2bea185440_o.jpg

September 21 by jerryang
http://pic.yupoo.com/jerryang05/37212639db42/5zwrmo2x.jpg

http://pic.yupoo.com/jerryang05/02589639dc9d/p2sgaa2k.jpg

September 21 by jerryang
http://pic.yupoo.com/jerryang05/37212639db42/5zwrmo2x.jpg

http://pic.yupoo.com/jerryang05/02589639dc9d/p2sgaa2k.jpg

good enough box :D

September 27 by jerryang
http://pic.yupoo.com/jerryang05/48739641d788/et8xr8kr.jpg

http://pic.yupoo.com/jerryang05/49380641d78f/y9bpekfo.jpg

July, by jamespan
http://www.photofans.cn/uploads2008/07/userid140098time20080704151905.jpg

http://www.photofans.cn/uploads2008/07/userid140098time20080704154350.jpg

First picture is awesome z0rg!!!! ^^

:cheers:

July, by jamespan
http://www.photofans.cn/uploads2008/07/userid140098time20080704151905.jpg

love how the road zigzags all the way into the distance.

September 27 by jerryang
http://pic.yupoo.com/jerryang05/49380641d78f/y9bpekfo.jpg

that's a very clear mirror!

Sept. 28th:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3240/2909115037_e00a8f7111_o.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2328/2909115041_1f449af3f1_o.jpg

Bonus (can you spot it? Hint: look towards the far left):

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3274/2910010322_ec081b8e93_o.jpg

October 8th by jerryang
http://pic.yupoo.com/jerryang05/89926650416b/wvlcya6j.jpg

http://pic.yupoo.com/jerryang05/736156504174/wt4zkmuz.jpg

http://pic.yupoo.com/jerryang05/480446504188/dqm5b6u1.jpg

neat cladding, looks good.

^^ same cladding as SWFC.

http://pic.yupoo.com/jerryang05/49380641d78f/y9bpekfo.jpg

nice progress.

Looks great! Shanghai should be proud.

By Reventon-lex. The tower is somewhere in the darkness.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3188/2946810493_4b91a100a8_b.jpg

what a shot!!!

Stunning indeed. I gotta get my ass up the Radisson Building soon--

^^go staff... XD

im looking forward to see your shots

October 18th by jerryang
http://pic.yupoo.com/jerryang05/797876614af5/2m0jqr0y.jpg

November 2nd by jerryang
http://pic.yupoo.com/jerryang05/3412867103f6/argyipdm.jpg

http://pic.yupoo.com/jerryang05/569166710403/kg4hd4vs.jpg

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http://pic.yupoo.com/jerryang05/450646710430/uq0nfizz.jpg

http://pic.yupoo.com/jerryang05/635576710442/ukck30gd.jpg

Wow, it is growing really tall now.

It's going to dominate that part of the skyline now :) looks great :D

http://pic.yupoo.com/jerryang05/3412867103f6/argyipdm.jpg

i really hope i can bomb some builuding down from that photo...............

Nice design. It will look excellent in Shanghai. :cheers:

November 4th by 小麟子
http://tuke.52pk.net/data/2008/11/04/0431212.jpg

http://tuke.52pk.net/data/2008/11/04/0431223.jpg

By Reventon-lex. The tower is somewhere in the darkness.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3188/2946810493_4b91a100a8_b.jpg


I'm loving this building.

By the way, what's the name of the building that has blue neon lights on its edges on the shot above?

^^
Chang Feng Commercial City in Zhongshan Park.

November 8th by giallo
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3067/3011992777_7752552c10_o.jpg

the cladding looks pretty sweet~

November 9th:

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more from jerryang - completion due 2009 June <3

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November 8th by jerryang
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November 15th by jerryang
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Amazing shots. From Flickr?

so fast the last two pic really nice

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I love the west nanjing road area, and the tower itself also looks amazing!

Looks too plain, and unoriginal. Don't like it!

December 1st by jerryang
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there's construction activity of the right side ,can anyone name the building under construction.

Isn't it too tall for "just" 58 floors? I mean, it's nearly a super-tall. What's the floor-to-floor height?

there's construction activity of the right side ,can anyone name the building under construction.
Shanghai Kerry Centre.

is this nanjing lu or something?

^^
The tower is on Nanjing Xi Lu and Huashan Lu..

See the location here (http://sh.edushi.com/?15930).

Dec 7th by jerryang
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Wow, it's growing really tall now. Do you have an estimate, z0rg?

The tapering effect isn't that clear yet either.

^^ Hard to say, probably around 52-56 floors.

so not far away from topping out, great :)

according to ssc.cn

the concrete section is t/o already, might have a bit of steel section on top~

^^
Thought so, it looks almost taller than the renders suggest as it is now.

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is there a height limit in this area?

^^ not in Shanghai.

Great photos Z0rg :okay:

Dec 14th by jerryang
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Very nice tower

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Thanks for sharing these beautiful shots. :cheers2:

according to the leasing brochure the structural height is 270m, so there should be a 28m glass curtain wall parapet above that to bring it to 298m. i.e. a 7 storey glass frame

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12.27 from skyscrapers.cn
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Its on the left side of the pic

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I just arrived from Xiamen,and Notice xiamen like all the Chinese cities,is that there no large adverstizing billboard.

I love the classic design but with only a twist of modernism. I like the scale model of it too.

I just arrived from Xiamen,and Notice xiamen like all the Chinese cities,is that there no large adverstizing billboard.

some ad billboards are moved to the top of the building :)

wow, this is a great shot.

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by Jerry Yang

How the hell does he get up there? :)

^^ :lol: :lol: :lol:

Jan 11th by jerryang
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Topped out?

Topped out?

The floors have stopped and the core is now a few floors higher. Looks like they're still working on the core.

^^ sweet, gna get even taller

nice building, i didn't know that SWC was so far...

what is SWC? ^^

what is SWC? ^^
SHANGHAI Wheelock Square

??

ok, Shanghai Wheelock Cquare.

umm, according to jlb the tower's core is still rising? why does it say T/O?

or maybe its a typo for SWFC...
he saw swfc so far away from this building lol

ok, Shanghai Wheelock Cquare.

umm, according to jlb the tower's core is still rising? why does it say T/O?

The highest floor should be poured but there is a glass parapet that extends further above. The core would be higher than the top floor within this parapet for machinery such as lift motors etc. The core may be topped out too but not sure, work looks like it has stopped because of spring festival, a lot of construction sites close down early because it's too hard for migrant workers to get train tickets home if they all leave on the last day before the holiday.

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JerryYang, skyscrapers.cn

Whoa, the "spine" looks quite a bit different than I thought I would. Not sure I like it or not...

^^ i agree. Its not bad, but its also not what i would have hoped when looking at the renders.

not far from topping out i think

Whoa, the "spine" looks quite a bit different than I thought I would. Not sure I like it or not...

it does look like it gets wider at the top, so it might look better eventually.

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:lol:great view.爽:lol:

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Thanks for the updates

T/O?....damn was this tower fast!

^^
Well ground work took like three years so in total it wasn't very fast at all! :)

T/O?....damn was this tower fast!


lol. its the slowest of all. started since 2002!

really? was it on hold or something? because it has risen quite fast when i remember right

^^
It was never on hold as far as I know, but the ground works took forever. The slowest project in Shanghai by far during those years.
When the actual tower started to rise it has gone pretty fast though. :)

I like the design is it really T/O go look for shanghai

Those dusk shots are awesome! Interesting project.

March 1st by jerryang
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I love the fact that Shanghai has so many different unique skyscrapers, googie, modern, postmodern and everything in between!

This tower will definitely look great on the skyline, especially when the cladding is finished!

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^^ wow, cladding almost done. didnt have an update for over a month!

That's the best pic of Wheelock I've seen in months. You can see SHK's project in the background too.

good progress since March 1st. It looks like the cladding can be finished in one month.

Is the building at 1:50 - 2:00 ?

cn5B42LcVg0

:uh:

^^ yup thats it, construction just wasnt so far then.

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Hey, Wheelock Tower looks much better now with most of the cladding on! And it might even improve with the glass parapet on top.:cheers2:

Btw. assuming 4 oversized floors at the base, I count 56 structural floors, with the started 57th upmost. And the top is also missing, so the T/O-labelling has come to early here IMO. There should be at least 20m to come, and I guess that Tower 66 is still the tallest in the neighborhood.

Furthermore, compared with the render on post #1, I see more differences than just the darker color: there are only 14 levels each between the 3 indications of the cladding now, instead of 15. And this render shows around 61 floors (maybe the upmost is fake and already part of the parapet). But I hope the given 298m still apply to the final height of the recent SWT, bringing it close to "supertalldom".:)

Excellent! Two more metres and it would be a supertall.

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It looks so similar to the SWFC.

That angle looks just like the SWFC, just that it stops 200m too short. The glass spine is exactly like that of SWFC's, just the cladding is slightly different.

Excellent! Two more metres and it would be a supertall.
Actually 6 supertalls around the world have a lower roof than Weelock Square... :lol:

Weelock Square - 298m (roof 274m)

- Emirates Hotel Tower (Dubai) - 305m (roof 261m)
- AT&T Corporate Center (Chicago) - 307m (roof 270m)
- New York Times Building (New York) - 319m (roof 227m)
- Burj al Arab Hotel (Dubai) - 321m (roof 210m)
- Shimao International Plaza (Shanghai) - 333m (roof 246m)
- Bank of America Tower (New York) - 366m (roof 269m)

:cheers:

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this guy's pic is always amazing

the 'spine' is looking very good now. great tower! Shanghai should develop the area around it more, this tower would looks great with a few nice, taller towers around it.