The Shanghai Tower
 

The tower , I believe is due for completion soon ... Anyone know which hotel company will operate the Hotel there ?

I can actually see it from my bedroom window, and assumed it was complete because it features a different lighting scheme almost daily. When it was under construction, I feared it would be sinfully ugly. However, it turned out to be pretty nice. I have not heard news about a hotel tenant there.

International hotel chain Interstate Hotels & Resorts China (a subsidiary of the joint venture of the American real estate company Thayer Lodging Group and a large Chinese hotel chain - a joint stock company Shanghai Jin Jiang International Hotels) will open the world's highest ultra-luxury hotel - Shanghai Tower J-Hotel
The Shanghai Tower joins the Jin Mao Tower and SWFC to form the world's first adjacent grouping of three supertall buildings.

Dwarfs the two adjacent Hyatt Hotels.

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It's quite something. My guide last month called it "the world's biggest bottle opener."

Yes, it has been called that almost from the beginning. Now what's missing on the nearby skyline is building "the world's largest beer bottle" adjacent.

You're thinking of the wfc.

Is it higher than the Hong Kong RC?

Yes. So is the wfc. I'm posting from my phone so it's hard for me to paste the link, but there's a good Wikipedia page on the topic.

The Shanghai Tower will have more floors. 121 vs 118 ( HK Intl Commerce Center )

But the RC hotel goes to 118th floor, the Shanghai Tower J Hotel to 110 th floor.

Technically I would think RC would be higher, definitely has a better view.:p

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Awesome looking building which, as moondog notes, they now light up at night making it look even more awesome. That said, it's in Pudong so it's really not an attractive place to stay no matter how many stars or how "ultra luxurious" it is. The Jinjiang team managing it doesn't inspire confidence either.

I obviously share your views wrt both jinjiang and pudong, but I have to cioncede that flair at the rc is probably the nicest bar I've been to in Shanghai...extremely expensive, but damn nice!

15 years of filling up Pudong skyline

year 2000
http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/43400693.jpg

year 2015
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And, here is 20 years back (I've posted this before; a picture I took myself):

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By the way, if you go to the Urban Planning Exhibition, you can see images/models of Lujiazui when there was nothing there at all (apart from small houses). Second to the aquarium, the Urban Planning Exhibition is my favorite tourist spot in Shanghai.

Eta: The main reason 1995-2000 progress was more notable than 2000-2015 is the focal point shifted to Beijing during 2001. In both cases, more than half of the world's construction equipment was in each city.

I'm planning on posting a "20 years in China" thread next month, and will explain more.

The swimming pool is higher.

A Chinese friend involved in material shipments to these real estate projects has repeatedly warned about the poor quality of construction in all three towers.

Wonder when the first glass panels will come crashing down?