Constructing the Shanghai SuperTower

Witness the construction of the World Financial Center in Shanghai that, once complete, will be the third largest building in the world.

Man-Made: Shanghai SuperTower :
THURS JANUARY 31 8P et/pt : http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/videos/?source=4003

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Travel & Events

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• world
• financial
• center
• shanghai
• building
• economics
• asia
• national geographic

[ladhkay]

I admire china for its latest engineering marvels

My dad is one of the architects for this building

[patrickm2227]

i must admit this is a great skyscraper. i admire china alot. yet again im american i have ALOT of pride and love new york etc. im sad that many americans are ignorant and do hope for a strong allience with china to creat greater cities and a greater world

[jdmoney86]

Yeah people in China are poor, but so are people in the U.S. and other countries. The Asian people make up the real labour and work.

[gobipill]

It looks like an enormous heating iron =D

But I like how the architects didn't add a hundred foot vane on the top to make it taller. As if somehow that counts as part of the building, to help it break records. =,=

[techromite]

I love CHINA!

[bombarderoazul]

@blackflag1217 Yes they are still very poor, a lot of people are suffering from malnutrition.

[bombarderoazul]

@blackflag1217 Yes but in the last ten years they have taken more people out of poverty than the entire population of the USA. Look at what China was 20 years ago, and what they are now. Poverty was 85% in 1981 and in 2005 it was 16% i find that amazing.

[bombarderoazul]

chinas construction boom is incredible, they consume one third of the worlds steel, halfs of the worlds concrete and one quarter of the worlds oil. Their economy is exploding.

[5544JB]

It was not chinese architects who built SWFC, it was the american architect firm Kohn Pedersen Fox accosiates.

[AVIATIO]

China is quickly climbing the ladder to "hyperpower."

[zbusheha]

Awesome

[realmanwilson]

@alexanderh1405 strongly agree with u. btw we call these people "brain damage" in china.