The Shanghai World Financial Center is a skyscraper in the Lujiazui district of Pudong, Shanghai, completed in 2008. It was developed by the Japanese company Mori Building and designed by the American firm Kohn Pedersen Fox. At 492 meters it was for some time among the tallest buildings in the world, and it was designed with a trapezoid opening near the top, originally intended as a circle, which gives it the nickname of the bottle opener. It holds offices, a hotel and an observation deck near the top. It stands in the same area as the Jin Mao Tower and the Shanghai Tower, the three forming one of the best-known skylines in Asia.
Before and after
- from 7 August 2008 to 12 August 2008Russo-Georgian War
- 15 August 2008Discovery of Aegaeon
- 17 August 2008Michael Phelps wins eight gold medals in Beijing
- 18 August 2008Uzbin Valley ambush
- 28 August 2008Construction of Shanghai World Financial Center
- 2 September 2008Release of Google Chrome
- from 9 September 2008 to 18 January 2013Premiere of Fringe
- 10 September 2008The Large Hadron Collider starts up
- 14 September 2008Publication of The Hunger Games
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