Jinmao tower in Shanghai 88 floors walkway

Filed under:Jinmao tower — posted by HAD on 12/03/2009 @ 9:02 pm

Jinmao tower in Shanghai pudong lujiazui finance &trade zone, and the famous bund scenic area of pearl river in Shanghai, China, the foreign trade center Co., LTD. Invested and management, the Chicago SOM architecture design firm, total height is $420.5 meters, is the world’s third, China’s tallest, covers an area of 2.3 million square meters, ground 88 floors, underground layer 3 podium, 6 layers, with a total construction area of 29 million square meters. Jinmao tower has offices, grand hyatt, walkway, etc. Jinmao tower in modern style, and have both national style, the Shanghai towards the 21st century’s a landmark.

Jinmao tower

Jinmao tower

Article 88 floors walkway jinmao tower, height is 340.1 meters, the area is 1520 square meters, is now the largest walkway. Walkway decorate luxurious, imported natural marble, metope is only 3 millimeter; material thickness, Glass curtain wall, broadminded, overlooking the huangpu river, the cross-strait pinglan urban landscape and the magnificent at kethleen ‘s5 river. Two metres per second operation to lift and 9.1 only 45 seconds can be tourists from underground to 88 floors walkway. Here, you can enjoy the wonderful light and sun, and changing the blue sky and white clouds friendly handshake.

Address: century avenue. 2
Telephone: 50470088
Open time: 8-21
Tickets: 50 yuan, children’s 25 yuan, students at 25 yuan, student id (88 floors walkway)
Transportation: the metro line 2, bus lines 81, 82, 870, 871, 872, tunnel three, four, five, six lines, etc

Shanghai people’s park

Filed under:Shanghai,Tourist attractions — posted by HAD on @ 8:42 pm

Administrative and cultural center in Shanghai, the people’s park is part of the old Shanghai racetrack, after many conversions, now the people’s park although has no sand-storm scale, but the green, water stone set each other off. In the concrete jungle wipe on a green.

Health is a paradise ShiChi elliptic, said it was ShiChi, because it is filled with pebbles, dense shakedown is walking can massage foot on stone acupuncture, health benefits. In the pool and a special crushed stone were erected, this isn’t a fly again, but it does some “first”, from the Antarctic penguins, is China’s hometown dates from the Antarctic team QiaoZhiDao back.

Bess chestwood is a beautiful lotus, its backing, covered with green jade green reeds in the pond, summer, pink bud through a chink out and graceful. There is a kind of “silt but don’t dye QingLian zhuo, rather than” lasting appeal.

Fitness area near a corner, holiday, there are a lot of students with the English lovers party, was coming into practice spoken English, good places to general friend.

At sunset, lovers walking in this company, or 3 double cease day in this extended all very nicely.

A: by the people’s park is located in the “the May 30th movement”, because of monumental sculptures, has been moved to the city of nanjing road greening outside the park on the subway people square adjacent (standing exit). 16.65 meters high, “the May 30th movement commemorative sculpture” at least three aspects: first, using the characteristic abstraction and exaggerated modelling with Chinese characteristics and composition of the two words “50” deformation, magnificent, Second, pay attention to the sculpture in harmony with the environment, “50” each pen is a powerful stubborn individual, the sculpture and formed a firm’s overall. Third, the use of stainless steel qualitative material, deepen the May 30th movement. The sculpture with its chic modelling, novel design, anacreontic and sedate, reflected the revolutionary martyrs clank iron character of the intellectual, concise and XiLian new era, the more prosperous, a Shanghai people’s pioneering spirit.

Open time: 6:00-18:00
Tickets: 2 yuan



image: detail of installation by Bronwyn Lace