Construction Under Way On World?s Tallest Skyscraper In Shanghai

SHANGHAI, CHINA - OCTOBER 18: (CHINA OUT) Minoru Mori, President and CEO of Mori Building Co., developer of the Shanghai World Financial Centre, attends a press conference about the construction of the project on October 18, 2005 in Shanghai, China.The Shanghai World Financial Center is being built beside the Jinmao Tower, China's tallest building. If completed, the center will be the world's tallest building. The builders of skyscraper have scrapped plans for a round hole through its upper floors and replaced it by a four-sided slot, after Chinese complaints that it looked like Japan's "rising sun" flag. According to the blueprint of the 101-story project, the Shanghai World Financial Center will stand at a height of 492 meters (about 1614 feet), topping the current record holder Malaysia's 1,483-foot Petronas Twin Towers. The project is scheduled to be finished in 2008. (Photo by China Photos/Getty Images)