This Day, That Year
China Daily | Updated: 2015-08-27 07:36
Item from Aug 27, 1999, in China Daily: The Jin Mao Tower, China's tallest building, opens for business for the first time tomorrow ... The 88-story Jin Mao Tower, soaring 420 meters into the sky, has been a landmark in Shanghai since it was completed last year, competing for glamour with the Oriental Pearl TV Tower amid the fast-changing Pudong skyline.
The $540 million post-modernist structure, the third-tallest in the world, was designed by the world-renowned architects Skidmore, Owings and Merrill of Chicago.
The number of supertall buildings, or skyscrapers taller than 300 meters, has boomed across the country in recent years.
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