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Shanghai Building Designs: Architecture
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post updated 21 August 2025
Shanghai Architecture Designs – chronological list
This page features the most important new Shanghai Architecture. The focus is on contemporary Shanghai buildings.
We have 3 pages of Shanghai Architecture selections:
Architecture in Shanghai
Shanghai Building : news + key projects (this page)
Shanghai Building Designs : A-J
Shanghai Building Developments : K-Z
Shanghai Architecture Tours
photo : Thomas Ott, Mühltal
Shanghai Architecture Walking Tours by e-architect
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China Architecture Designs – chronological list
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Shanghai Architecture News
Shanghai Architecture News, chronological:
17 Aug 2016
Cloud Pavilion Shanghai at West Bund Biennial
Design: schmidt hammer lassen architects
photograph : Peter Dixie
In 2013, SHL were commissioned by West Bund to create a series of pavilions as part of the West Bund Biennale of Art & Architecture, curated by renowned Chinese architect Zhang Yonghe, and architecture Professor and curator Li Xiangning.
4 Sep 2013
Shanghai ZhangDaQian Gallery – building news
Design: Sutherland Hussey Architects with GROSSMAX
image from architects
The program, apart from the gallery itself, includes a 200 seat lecture hall, meeting rooms, book shop and cafe, restoration facilities, storage and archiving space all organised into small pitched roof cellular forms wrapping around courtyards of varying size containing neatly manicured gardens, carp ponds and bamboo forests.
15 Aug 2013
Shanghai Skyscrapers – architectural render
image : HO-CG
We liked this view of the city so e-architect asked if we could share it with our readers. The specialty of Shanghai Homely Culture Transmit Co, Ltd (SHCT) is in interior & exterior architectural and landscaping rendering and animation services. They have been in business for about 10 years in Shanghai, China. There are more than 130 architectural renderers in their team: www.ho-cg.com
7 Aug 2013
Roca Gallery Shanghai
Design: Francesc Rifé Studio
image from architects
Roca, international market leader in the defining of bathroom design is to inaugurate a Roca Gallery in the cosmopolitan city of Shanghai. The Roca Shanghai Gallery, the first of its kind in Asia, is a faithful reflection of the brand’s bid to bring together its philosophy and product line to the public as a whole. This new Gallery was designed by the Francesc Rifé Studio.
31 May 2013
Green Valley Shanghai
Design: schmidt hammer lassen architects with East China Architecture and Design Institute
image from architect
The Shanghai World Expo in 2010 placed emphasis on the future sustainable development of the formal industrial dockyard area of the city. The Expo event itself transformed this area into a new destination for the city.
25 Apr 2013
Hongqiao Airport Central Business District
Design: MVRDV
image from architect
Sincere Property, MVRDV and Aedas have started construction on a Central Business District at Shanghai’s mostly domestic airport Hongqiao. The 4.5ha site is located near Hongqiao Airport train station at the corner of Shenhai Express Way and Shenbin Road.
Shanghai Building Photos
Shanghai Building Photos – new pictures of key buildings around the city
Shanghai World Financial Center building – new photographs
Date built: 2008
Architects: Kohn Pederson Fox Associates – KPF
photo © Dennis Remmelzwaal
492 m – 1614 ft high ; 101 storeys skyscraper building
This tower was tallest building in the world briefly in 2008 (ie tallest design ignoring spires)
Jin Mao Shanghai building , Lujiazui, Pudong
Date built: 1998
Architects: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill – SOM
photo © Dennis Remmelzwaal
The tallest building in China since 2005 – new pictures
420m high, 88 storey skyscraper building
Incorporating offices + Grand Hyatt Hotel with thirty storey high atrium
Oriental Pearl Tower, Lujiazui, Pudong
Date built: 1995
Architects: Shanghai Modern Architectural Design Co. Ltd
photo © Dennis Remmelzwaal
The tallest tower in Asia – 468m high TV Tower – new photos.
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Shanghai Building Designs 2012 – 2013
22 Jan 2013
Bamboo Courtyard Teahouse, Yangzhou, north of Shanghai
Design: Harmony World Consulting & Design (HWCD)
photograph : T+E
Located in the ShiQiao garden in Yangzhou, a city to the northwest of Shanghai, this is the floating Bamboo Courtyard Teahouse designed by Chinese architect Sun Wei, partner of HWCD. As an international design practice, with offices in London and Barcelona, HWCD has been developing various projects, specializes in boutique hotels, residents and mix-use projects.
28 Sep 2012
Hongqiao Vantone SunnyWorld Centre
Design: Foster + Partners
picture : Foster + Partners
This masterplan at the heart of the Shanghai Hongqiao CBD, has started on site. The project is part of an urban plan extending out from Shanghai’s main station. It is focused on a four-hectare public park and includes office buildings, shops and restaurants.
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Contemporary Shanghai Architecture
Shanghai Expo Buildings 2010 Buildings + Architects – Information, Images – Pavilion Designs
British Pavilion : Shanghai Expo Building 2010 Design
Design: Heatherwick Studios
picture from Heatherwick Studio
China Diamond Exchange Center building
Design: Goettsch Partners architects
picture from architect
Shanghai Expo 2010 Pavilion
Design: BIG architects
picture from architect
Expo Shanghai 2010 Megastructure
Knippers Helbig Advanced Engineering
photo : Thomas Ott, Mühltal
Hongqiao Soho Shanghai
Zaha Hadid Architects
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Shanghai Art Center Building
Paul Andreu Architects
photo from Paul Andreu Architects
RÉN building – Shanghai Expo 2010 Building
BIG architects
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Shanghai Design Centre Building
Studio Twist, architects
photo from architects
Shanghai Expo UK Pavilion building
Heatherwick Studio
photo © Daniele Mattioli
Shanghai Oriental Sports Center
gmp von Gerkan, Marg and Partners
photograph from architect
Shanghai Tower : Super-Tall Building
Marshall Strabala architect
image from architect
Spanish Pavilion – Shanghai Expo 2010 Design
Miralles Tagliabue EMBT architects
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Shanghai Architecture : Contemporary Buildings + photos
Location: Shanghai, China .
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New Buildings in Shanghai
Contemporary Shanghai Architecture
Shanghai Architecture Designs – chronological list
Shanghai Architecture Walking Tours by e-architect
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Chinese Architecture Designs
Chinese Architectural Designs – selection:
Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank – design by Foster + Partners
Buildings / photos for the Shanghai Architecture page welcome.
