Shanghai Tower上海中心
Chapter 00 — The Crossing
Where the river meets the night.
Cross the Huangpu toward a tower of light — three spheres above the water, a city burning behind them.
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01
The Pearl
Three spheres and a needle, burning rose above Pudong.
02
Three Towers
Shanghai Tower, Jin Mao and the opener, one skyline.
03
The Bund
A century of stone across the water, lit like a stage.
04
Afterglow
The river keeps the light long after the city sleeps.
东方明珠
01 — The Pearl东方明珠
Three spheres above the river, one tower of light.
East of the Bund, on the Pudong bank, the Oriental Pearl rises out of the dark — eleven spheres strung along a concrete needle, its largest globe burning rose above the water.
It opened in 1995, when this shore was still fields and cranes. Tonight the river carries its light in long wet streaks, and the skyline behind it has grown three times taller. The Pearl does not change. The city around it will not stop.
Cross to Lujiazui468Metres
1995Opened
50Lower sphere
∞The night
02 — The Skyline三件套
Jin Mao金茂
SWFC环球金融
03 — The Bund外滩
Five towers. One hundred years. A single skyline.
Each tower is a story, not a statistic. You cross the river, walk the Bund, and leave with one landmark worth keeping.
01
The Pearl东方明珠
Three spheres and a needle — the oldest landmark of the new age.
468 m
02
Jin Mao金茂
A pagoda in glass, tiered for luck, opened in 1999.
420 m
03
SWFC环球金融
A bottle-opener cut into the wind, finished in 2008.
492 m
04
Shanghai Tower上海中心
The spiral, twisted twice, completed in 2015.
632 m
05
Night Shanghai夜上海
And the whole lit waterfront that keeps them all company.
∞Chapter 04 — Afterglow
Afterglow
The Pearl does not go dark. Take the crossing whenever the city gets loud — it is always the same river, and never the same light.
Cross the river