Tomorrow Square
Shanghai, China

HEIGHT: 285m/931 feet
FLOORS: 55 floors
COMPLETION: 2002
ARCHITECT: John Portman and Associates

Strategically located on Nanjing Road adjacent to People's Park, Tomorrow Square has an unmatched opportunity to create a powerful visual impact. The sleek 55-story tower is clad in aluminum and glass. Reaching upward in a straightforward, geometric manner, the building boasts clean and uncluttered lines with the contemporary look of the future. The building's vertical movement is reinforced by the dominant triangular shapes at both the top and base. This impact is increased by the placement of the tower - it rises directly from a landscaped plaza at street level, facing 2 of the major streets that border the site.

There are 2 main structures: the tower and podium. The tower, originally designed as a hotel and office building, is now being renovated to a business class, 500 room hotel, and business apartments complex for JW Marriot. The podium includes the low-rise retail galleria and conference centre. To reinforce its strong vertical form, the tower and podium are visually separate though functionally linked via a sky lit atrium.

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quite nice 9/10;)

7/10

kinda out of shape

I'm sorry, but I think this is one of the ugliest buildings in Asia. I think the hollow pyramid at the top is horrid...:( 4/10

a giant screwdriver .. . 5/10

The sloping roof is good, and the way it turns 45 degrees in the middle is unique, but it could use some more curves, otherwise, not bad.

6/10

4/10. Looks like a painful medical device. I don't think this will age well.

8/10

A very interesting and optimistic design. At night the top part glows like a powerful beacon.

I like the top - it reminds me of the arms of a robot doing jumping jacks. On the other hand, the overhang of the top section over the bottom looks quite awkward from some angles. One certainly has to give some credit, though, for a cheery name like "Sunjoy Tomorrow". Overall, not great, but not bad at all. 5.

It's ok but it feels like there's something missing.

7/10

8! i like it but at second glance, it dont look as good

Its okay, the top looks good at night, but I think the building is a bit tacky 7/10

Originally posted by enzo
4/10. Looks like a painful medical device. I don't think this will age well.

I agree!

Has it decided what it would like to be yet?

There are adventurous designs and there are adven......

5 (i go to give it one more point just for the English translated name however, it will reamain at 5).

5 it is.

very nice piece of work. 8.5/10

This is just hideous...
and they need to stop naming these things with names like happy land plaza or whatnot..even though I know it must represent something in chinese..

7/10 I like the design and the top, i aggree with Boresville some of these buildings have strange names.

9.5/10. What a skyscraper should be.

I like how the building on the top is 45 degrees different than the bottom and I also like the crown on top.

9/10

7.5/10 - It has good height, helped by the sloping setbacks, and manages to turn 45 degrees on its axis without looking like it's in hideous pain. The facade does a good job of dancing in the light, too. The top, however, is not so good - thoe giant pincers look SO out of place, even if they provide a big "splash" at night.

Maybe the building could have used a couple of setbacks down near the base...

Oh, and Boresville McYawn - I think it must be REALLY hard to translate from Chinese to English - I remember a Chinese dish named "General Tsing's seven happiness", or something like that...Of course, the languages are so different....

I don't know ..... I miss something here but what ? No idea !

Jiggawhat the f*ck is that?? It gets points for being so weird I did a double take. 5.5/10

hmmm...not a typical Portman design now is it..??...sure it's unorthodox but Shanghai is full of unorthodox designs!!..(by the way I'm starting to really admire Shanghai & it's highrises)...some of you are judging too harshly..go look at the pics again after the 1st. one...this is far from a hideous building...I've seen worse..
8/10

It's IMO not so nice, cause the shape isn't perfect. 7/10

some of you are judging too harshly

Bob I adore Shanghai and many of it's highrises but I don't think one could EVER be too harsh in lambasting this....."thing"......

Maybe you could love it like people came to love the "Elephant Man" but it's not a person nor even an animal, it's just a hideous manifestation of steel, concrete and glass! Of course that is only my opinion but I'm sticking with it!;) No one expects the Spanish Inquisition but this building is what I'd expect them to painfully torture me with!

This wins Portman an "Architectural Anal Probe Award". I'm addressing the envelope as soon as I'm done typing.:D

I remember the proposal for it in the <u>Wall Street Journal</i> years ago! I think it looks almost castle-like.

Heres a picture from neon's thread.

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Looks like something from a science fiction movie but then just 10 times lower then those in the movies.
7.0/10

i give it credit for being an interesting design (castle like design) but i dont like the design. 6

NOW THERE IS A BUILDING.
I love asian scrapers...they are so different from our parts. ;)

I give her a 9.

Welcome to star war guys.

9/10

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3 Hideous... way out of shape... and the hollow pyramid is TACKY!

I guess it was supposed to look dynamic, but it didn't work out that way. Looks pathetic because of that.

Looks like something out of Star Wars.. Very futuristic.. at the same time threatening.. :) Good use of architecture to invoke feelings I'll say.. haha :cool: Very daring design overall.. maybe a little overboard

8.5/10

Sunjoy Tomorrow Square is unique, very unique. The constricted lower part of the building is so compatible with the considerable javelin-like top which is has this gorgeous trait to compelling the pedrestrian and others.......Uniquely unique.....9.5/10

9/10 Pointy but SHARP pointy! How cool is that?? VERY.

very nice! 10

O dear. I'm afraid I' don't share the enthusiasm Liz manages to develop. I think all that grey is depressing and the design, although it makes great efforts to escape being a plain box, nothing but boring.

A 4.

this building's architectually amazing, like one of a kind. it manages to have its shape without looking bizzare (and i don't know how they managed to do that) man, some ss.com editor should post more of these pics.

9.0

Nah, I don't like this one, 5.5/10

5/10

8/10

i dont like it

8.5

the view like in pic 4, post 1 is like 10 pts., the view like in pic 3, post 1, is like 7 -> 8.5

Nice
9/10

Great roof feature reminds me of the Tower in Dubai

3.5/10 unless the top opened and spaceships entered and exited from the grips the arms at night...

10/10

7/10 Cool colors.

7/10


kind of weird

6/10
Looks very dull, something is missing in the building. The crown could have been better.

10/10

7

Not beautiful, nor ugly. Interesting attempt at a new twist on the usual pyramid topped tower.....But looks a bit disjointed, out of proportion. I don't know, I am confused by it and that disturbs my points processes.

I do not like the top part, look like a toy of pieces 6,5/10

I'm gonna say this is one of my favorites, feels very modern, 9/10

9/10

4.0/10

Has good height but nothing else. I don't know what the guy who designed this got for it but if you ask me he ought to have gotten life.

7/10

6.5/10

Its a decent building. I like it when an architect takes a chance, but I still dont grade any easier. The idea is intriguing but it seems that the proportions are wrong. Too slim on the bottom, and the top seems to big for the base, although if the base was 10-20% larger widthwise, I would be much happier. I like the hollow pyramid on top, and the lower part. Color is bland though.

Don't like the angle of th esecond picure ;-(

Unoriginal colour, windows, and cornice, looks like someone twisted the top 90 degrees off from the bottom

But good height - although built in a time and place when it should have been 300+

6/10

8/10

strange looking one, but i like it

not bad 8/10

10/10

Wow, it's pretty unique and tall enough for my liking and I love the way it widens out at the top and looks quite different from all angels. So It deserves a 9/10 from me.

crazy architecture, but i love it! 8.5

Unique shape. 7.5/10

5/10

Nice 8/10

4/10
Hate it. Sorry. It looks so contrived.

Okay, maybe 4 is a little harsh. I'll give it 5.5

From some veiws it looks like an arrow head. Crazy 8/10

it's like an optical illusion. It looks completely different from different angles. 9/10

EDIT: and so controversial...

8.5

I really dig this one. The top is awesome and I appreciate how it almost rotates into a new building half the way up. Looks better in pictures when it's cloudly so leads me to think it'd look better as a darker color.

9/10

very unique

8.5/10

Very interesting design; 8,5

looks like a tweaked version of Central Park of Perth :p

i wouldn't mind having that in Perth either!!!

Like the top and color of it very much
It really so fit the skyline of Shanghai Poxi ^^ 7/10

well i kinda like it. innovative 8.0

7.5/10

7/10

Nice design and a good facade. I give it an 8.5/10. :okay:

Very unique, 8

This is horrible especially the top 5

damn this towers screwed up ........10/10! :colgate:

...i can't really like it 7.5/10

One of the strangest I've ever seen ^^
From some angles it looks short, but it's very tall Oô
The cladding is not nice. The lighting could be a bit better. Still very daring.
I give it 7.5, mostly for being original and being good at it ^^

Neat idea for the design, though I'm not sure what to think about the pincers. I hope the name sounds less awkward in Chinese.

8.5/10

Unique. 7.

8/10

It's too slim for my taste,however I like its design.

I love it. It looks so menancing much like that of 2IFC. I must say.. this is my favourite name for a skyscraper. 9

9.5 / 10

Looks bent outta shape. 6/10

Don't really like it...5.5/10.

A very interesting building. I like the triangular shapes and the top triangle was a nice design 8.5/10

good design 8/10

Looks like Coruscant, a bit too fat too. 7.5

Interesting building. But I don't like the top. 6.5/10.

8.0/10.

It's really weird and unusual, but looks good. 8/10

Was it inspired in one of those medieval towers?
8.5/10

I love it! 8.5/10

9 very nice and complex.

10/10

mhhh 7.5

6/10 quite strange design !

Very nice from some angles, but looks strange from others. 7/10.

8.5/10

Not bad. Looks very good up close though so 7.5 from me

8/10

7.5

Really awesome design 9.5/10

good one 8.5

I am not very wowed with this one. Everything I see isn't spectacular pretty. Somehow, with another designer who must have rushed through the design qualities and gave us a building he must of designed something out of something he sees. The building is not pretty, and not something you should be interested on. 4/10

That is nasty,4.5/10

Very cool. I like it. 9.0

The pics form where the top is "slim" is cool... but form the other side... :rant: :? :mad2: :no: :gaah:

7/10
i like it,the hollow top is kinda ugly but i like it. i also like the glass of the top(the grey glass). but it seems like there are 2 buildings instead of one, the top part doesn't look anything like the bottom squarish building.

8.5

Not bad at all, 8

8/10. All up a great tower. I'm not real keen on the hollow pyramid on top and also, just looking at the photos it seems that because the top and bottom are at different angles the light strikes them differently, meaning the top and bottom often look different.

nice roof and good shpae 7,5/10

Not a great tower, and a rubbish name. 6/10.

so nice~

8/10

7/10

9/10. Excellent, uplifting, positive design. Great silhouette. Would be even better if taller. Shanghai has some of the best futuristic architecture in the world.

I don't like it much, it's wierd design. it's just tall and glassy.5/10

9/10

quite nice 8/10

I like 'em
9/10

Modern but gross. 7/10

5.5 don't like it

Lokks okay, little overdone ;) 8/10

Is this a transformer? Brave but only 5 from me

6/10, unique but I hate buildings that get larger as they go up.

It's a weird building, but kinda cool. 8/10

9/10 looks good very futuristic

This is the most evil looking building in existence. I love it. I used it in something and painted it jet black in photoshop and it looked so much better. And more evil. One thing you have to give china is credit for their originality in design. You would never ever see this building in any city in North America.

9/10

More height would give it a better feel of actually pointing to the future. Nevertheless, a 9/10

it's ok i guess.
looks different in different angles.
7/10

The most futuristic skyscraper i've seen.
Looks like if it has been made by aliens...I love it!! :drool:

8.5/10 I had the oppritunity to see this building in person, I really like it.

In the flesh it just looks bad, especialy with the Jinmao across the river sneering down appon it. The Bund Center, despite being 20 odd shorter is better quality and has more impact.

This one belongs with the other early chinese highrises, not the current generation.

8 /10. Marvelous

6/10, amazing but i don't like

8/10.

9/10

This is one of my favourite Shanghai building!Give it a 9.5.

I find the top very interesting!
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it's ok 9/10

interesting 8/10

6, bot bad, but not so nice...

7.0/10

This is what I called Odd shape

5/10

looks evil so I like it ,really something different this one 8/10

Very very weird :weirdo: 3/10

10 from me. i love it's daring design. When I was in Shanghai last, I couldn't keep my eyes off it.

nice idea at the top, but the whole package does not look very good

8.5/10, good design but should be higher

8/10 nice & modern

8/10

a clean, elegant design

9/10

8/10 one of the most popular building in shanghai

8/10

8/10

7.5/10

I like it, very innovative. A little out of color with blue bottom grey top.

8/10

8.5 / 10

So futuristic, defines the spirit of Shanghai.

8.5 / 10

One of a handful of good looking buildings in Shanghai.

Stands out even better against the super ugly concert hall in the foreground.

love it..very futuristic.

I like this one.

9 / 10

9. odd looking building..

6. I like what they tried to accomplish with this, it looks like two different buildings from different angles. Too bad I only like it from one of the angles, from the other it just looks, bad?

7/10

A decent design. Its identifiable but not in such a way that it really stands out or jumps at me. It might be the pictures though, but it does look a bit dull and could look better.

8/10
good designe

8.5/10

8
weird

One of the better designs in Shanghai. I think it would have looked better if the ball at the top was replaced with a glass pyramid.

it's never really a great idea to draw too much attention to the middle of a tower. this tower is creative but it's too "fun house" like for me. I do love the pyramid at the top, it's interesting. 8

8 / 10

the glass looks dirty and old. why? but I like the overall design. it's sharp.

8.5 / 10

It's one of my favorites skyscrapers, the way it turns is incredible, outstanding, thats what makes this buildings unique! despite its extraterrestrial looking xD
10/10 for sure ;)

the top of the tower is amazing, 10

8.5/10

I love it.

9/10

doesnt taper off well4.5/10

9.5/10.

10 - cool!

unique polygon 7/10

Very nice building. 8/10

8/10

8/10

nice design 8/10

9.5/10.

8/10

I like this one. 9.5/10

8

It's fairly attractive.

Where do they dream up these names?

8 out of 10 - A good skyscraper i like the lines and angles that run on it!!!

an 8

6/10 nice design except for the top

6/10

10/10 without a question...

10/10 :cheers: :cheers: :cheers:

8/10

8.5/10

7,5/10

Horrible. The glass looks awful, the shape-complex and not smooth + very disproportionate. 4/10

I really like this one. 9/10

3/10

Not bad. 8/10.

Pretty design!!

Nice building!

9/10

futuristic,7

Love it!! 10/10

has a great design

9.0

I find this pic from SimCity Societies

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2 Tomorrow Square. Bye!

like it!!! 9/10

Looks like made as an origami, but too plain for me. 6,5

I don't like the shape. 7/10

looks like a building of power! i like it
8.5

5/10

0/10. Cheap looking chinese tack. hurts my eyes

6.5/10

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9/10

8/10

7/10

9/10

Like almost always, somebody had to screw the roof up:) looks like the church. I know that it was supposed to be originally, but it is a matter of the taste.

6/10

7/10

this building is sooo nice, when in pics of skyline its so significant, thought these pics of the building doont really give me that feeling. 9/10

a pic

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7/10. Nice spire, copied from Dubai.

^^ of which building?

5/10

7,5

7.5

architect's bad dream 4/10

8.5/10

7/10

I like it !

7.0/10

7.5/10

9/10

Looks nice but cheap

7/10. somehow weird shape.

9/10

Another great building that just screams Shanghai. The architecture is superb. The hotel lobby and the starbucks on the ground floor are beautiful.

10. Excellent building. Regards.

9.5/10

I voted 7.5/10 very sharp design, not boring, very interesting architecture.

impressive 8/10