I remember the boys jumping off roofs and windows when Superman came out back in 1978 (girls, being a lot smarter than boys, don’t do these stupid things). Looks like Transformers has had a similar effect in one boy:
This past Saturday, an entire apartment building in Shanghai collapsed. To be fair, the building was under construction and thus unoccupied, but it’s still a minor miracle that there was only one fatality.
Though expected to open its doors this fall, mockups of Apple’s Shanghai store have already leaked. We love architect Ben Wood’s mix of Apple’s glass-and-steel minimalism with more traditional Chinese shapes and materials. [via Cult of Mac]
Bjarke Ingels Group’s (BIG) Danish Pavilion at the Shanghai Expo 2010 will be a perpetual loop—if you won’t be dizzy from the design, you’ll be dizzy from how breathtaking it is.
Don’t like what the tow company’s telling you? Try your luck at towing the tow truck, like this Shangainese Chevy owner. Note to Chinese tow companies-maybe you ought to get heavier trucks or something. [Chinasmack]
Financial apocalypse be damned! The Shanghai Tower, set to reach a whopping 632 meters by the time it’s completed, broke ground over the weekend. With its zenith a full 140 metres higher than the Mori Building (currently the world’s highest observatory), it’ll grab the honours of the tallest building in China.
It’s an unfortunately foggy morning in Shanghai, but from where I am, the crappy weather only adds to the feeling of standing in the middle of clouds. I’m towering almost half a kilometer over the rest of the city, on the highest man-made observation deck in the world, the 100th floor of the Shanghai World Financial Centre, which opened just two months ago. With cumulus on my right, stratus on my left and a mirrored ceiling reflecting their formations back at me—I feel myself getting dizzy. Have I developed a fear of heights, or is vertigo inevitable when you’re this far up?
This is a model of Shanghai as projected for 2020 by Chinese authorities. At 1,000 square feet, it’s perhaps the biggest model of a city in the world, and–for sure–the best place ever for two grown men to wear their Gamera and Godzilla latex costumes and fight to death. The gigantic dimensions and the detail shown in the photographs are just mind-blowing.
