High-rises raise major concerns
By Qiu Quanlin in Guangzhou and Yin Ping in Shanghai | China Daily | Updated: 2007-01-30 07:22
Safety and environmental protection should be the chief concerns of Chinese cities in their race to build more skyscrapers, architects said recently.
The warning came after work on the 432-meter-high West Tower began in the capital of Guangdong Province last Friday.
The skyscraper, located on the central axis of Zhujiang New Town, in Guangzhou's new urban area, will be the tallest building on the mainland when it is completed some time before 2009, bypassing the current record-holder, the Jin Mao Tower in Shanghai, by 12 meters.
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