Concrete is all around us, and we haven’t quite wrapped our heads around it. Understanding its history more clearly, the Skyscraper Museum’s new exhibition in Manhattan implies, just might help us ...

First was Jin Mao Tower, followed by the 1192 Lane Old Shanghai Food Street, which recreated 1930s Shanghai in an enclosed “food street” replete with rickshaws and retro paraphernalia.

The Burj Khalifa was designed by architect Adrian Smith, who also designed Central Park Tower in New York and the 1,380-foot Jin Mao Tower in Shanghai.

The Jin Mao Tower is 420 metres and 88 floors high (Picture: Shutterstock/alireza akhlaghi official) Those with even a mild fear of heights may want to take deep breaths before stepping inside ...

The hotel occupies floors 53 to 87 of the 88-storey (420m/1,380ft-high) Jin Mao Tower, with the spectacular 33-storey, barrel-vaulted atrium soaring to a height of 115m/377ft from floor 56, where ...

Standing at a towering 305 meters across 63 stories, The Skywaters will rise as Singapore’s tallest skyscraper, adding to the skyline of a city renowned for its soaring architecture. It will ...

See edgenyc.com Skywalk, Shanghai, China Shanghai Jin Mao Tower walk takes you 340 metres above the city. The highest skyscraper exterior walk until recently is still a corker at 340 metres.

The Jin Mao Tower did the same for Pudong in Shanghai. Mohamed Alabbar recognised this and executed it brilliantly with the Burj Khalifa, transforming not just the site but Dubai as a whole.

At 632m, the Shanghai Tower is the loftiest of a nosebleed triptych that includes the neighbouring Shanghai World Financial Center (492m) and Jin Mao Tower (420m) – all three were, at one time ...

At the time, he was working at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) and had designed buildings such as Jin Mao Tower, a 1,380-foot tower in Shanghai; and Zifeng Tower (formerly known as Nanjing ...