As for the Shanghai building itself, a giant circular opening at the top had to be changed to a rectangle in 2005 after the Chinese public objected that it looked like the rising sun of Japan's imperial flag.
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Beijing, China (CNN) -- Two men were sentenced to life in prison for their involvement in the collapse of a building in Shanghai last year, Chinese state media reported.
The measures, including home buying curbs and differentiated mortgage policies, will remain, Liu Haisheng, director of the Shanghai Housing Support and Building Administration Bureau, told a municipal conference held Wednesday.
Beijing, China (CNN) -- More than a month after a raging fire killed 58 residents of an apartment building in Shanghai, China's largest metropolis, nagging questions remain: Exactly what caused it?
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They financed some of Shanghai's finest colonial architecture, including the magnificent Children's Palace (formerly the Kadoorie estate, Marble Hall), the art deco Peace Hotel (then the Cathay Hotel) and Shanghai Mansions, a Sassoon building that was used to process, and illegally house at times, hundreds of refugees.
DreamWorks Animation is building a studio in Shanghai with local partners.
Disney plans to spend that amount every ten days for the next five years building its new resort in Shanghai.
Now under the ownership of a Chinese company, Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation, MG is building a couple of new models for the British market.
"I haven't seen any school buildings collapse this time, " said Chen Baosheng, a professor at Tongji University in Shanghai who was critical of school-building practices following the 2008 quake.
The firm said it had traced the hacking activities of APT1 to the site of 12-storey building in the Pudong area of Shanghai.
It will also include the 55-storey Shanghai Tower, which will be the tallest UK building outside London.
Known for grandiose projects such as the Shanghai World Financial Center, China's tallest building, which opened in 2008.
Professor Zhang Deming, President of Shanghai TV University, will receive the prize on behalf of his university for its project Turning the Digital Divide into Digital Opportunity: The Project for Building the Digital Lifelong Learning System in Shanghai.
It will be the tallest building in China, and the second time Shanghai skyscrapers ranked in the top five pieces of commercial real estate worldwide.
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One of the clearest examples of the Shanghai Deco style is the old Bank of China headquarters building next to the Peace Hotel on the Bund.
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Perhaps most significant has been the critical reaction from the intergovernmental Shanghai Co-operation Organisation, which Russia has been building up as a counterweight to American influence.
"It's not cheap, but the location is good, " she says of the apartment in a high-rise building in a residential district north of the Shanghai Bund.
China housing prices have been relatively stable all year, rising no more than 1 percent in cities like Shanghai thanks to government controls on buying, lending and building.
In Shanghai, architects and their clients were influenced by traditional Chinese building forms and motifs.
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In March 2011, Shanghai is hosting the 4th Annual Ultra-High-rise Building Summit -- which extols the merits of high-rise construction.
Disney will spend that amount every ten days for the next five years building its 1, 000-acre theme park in Shanghai.
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Like the constant construction in Beijing and Shanghai, Tokyo was on a fast-forward spree of tear-downs and building, clearing the flimsy structures put up hastily after clearing the firebombing rubble.
They've even let a new member into the club: The Peninsula Shanghai hotel, which bookends the northern curve of the Bund, was the first new building here in six decades.
GreenBiz produced an event called VERGE, a global virtual event based in Shanghai, London and San Francisco, focusing on the convergence of energy, information, building, and vehicle technologies.
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The Frist family, operating apart from HCA as a new company called CHC, is building a hospital with the Chinese government in Cixi, 100 miles south of Shanghai, slated to open in August 2013.
"The Shanghai Bubble, " a 1998 essay by Joshua Cooper Ramo, compared the city's building "explosion" with Europe's postwar reconstruction.
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