Introduction

Shanghai Tower is designed by Gensler and it is the 2^nd tallest building in the world. The tower has been designed as a soft vertical spiral rotating at about 120 degrees and scaling at 55% rate exponentially. The tower functions as a self-sustaining vertical city. It is a mixed-used building of unique, vertically interconnected neighborhoods that evolve as the tower slowly rises toward the

sky. The building will comprise 120 floors plus four additional floors of equipment rooms and Tuned Mass Damper (TMD). The top of the structure is at 632 meters (2,074 feet) height. - Shanghai Tower Façade Design Process (2010)