| Tall buildings in Shanghai | |
|---|---|
 The skyline of Lujiazui in Pudong District, with the Oriental Pearl Tower, Jin Mao Tower, Shanghai World Financial Center and Shanghai Tower | |
| Tallest building | Shanghai Tower (2015) |
| Tallest building height | 632 m (2,073 ft) (3rd) |
| First 150 m+ building | Jin Jiang Tower (1988) |
| Number of tall buildings | |
| Buildings taller than 150 m | 195 [1] (2025) (6th) |
| Buildings taller than 200 m | 70 (2025) (6th) |
| Buildings taller than 300 m | 7 (2025) (5th) |
| Buildings taller than 400 m | 3 |
The city of Shanghai, China has one of the largest skylines in the world, with 193 completed skyscrapers that reach a height of 150 metres (492 feet) as of 2025, making it the city with the sixth-most skyscrapers in the world. It also has the third most skyscrapers in mainland China, after Shenzhen and Guangzhou. As the largest urban area in China, with an urban area population of over 21.9 million residents as of 2020, [2] Shanghai is home to some of China's tallest buildings.
Contents
- Tallest buildings
- Tallest under construction or proposed
- Under construction
- Proposed
- Timeline of tallest buildings
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
Shanghai's first high-rise building boom occurred in the 1920s and 1930s, during the city's heyday as a multinational center of business and finance. [3] The city's international concessions permitted foreign investment, and with it came architectural styles influenced by the West, as seen today in areas such as the French Concession and the Bund. [4] After the Communist takeover in 1949, Shanghai's urban development was stifled, punished for its earlier capitalist excesses. [5]
Following economic reforms in the late 1980s, Shanghai became one of the first Chinese cities to build skyscrapers. [6] The area of Lujiazui, in the district of Pudong, was designated as a new central business district (CBD), and gradually became the focal point of the skyline. From the late 1990s, skyscrapers began to be built at a rapid pace. The City of Shanghai reported in 2004 that 6,704 buildings of 11 stories or more were completed since 1990; [7] by 2011, there are over 20,000 buildings at least 11 stories tall and more than 1,000 buildings exceeding 30 stories in Shanghai. [8]
Lujiazui forms the central portion of Shanghai's skyline, and contains its three tallest buildings. The third tallest, the postmodern Jin Mao Tower, was China's first supertall skyscraper. It was the tallest building in Shanghai from 1990 until 2008, when Shanghai World Financial Center was completed. Since 2015, the tallest building in Shanghai has been the 632 m (2,073 ft) tall, 128-storey Shanghai Tower, one of only four megatall skyscrapers. At the time of its completion, it was the second-tallest building in the world; it is currently the third tallest. While not a habitable building, the Oriental Pearl Tower, also in Lujiazui, has been a significant landmark in the skyline since its completion in 1994. Besides Lujiazui, many skyscrapers are found throughout the central areas of Shanghai, such as in Huangpu, Hongkou, and Xuhui.
Shanghai has seven supertall skyscrapers, and is tied with Chicago, Nanjing, and Wuhan as the city with the fifth-most supertall buildings. Since the 2010s, an increasing number of supertall skyscrapers have been built outside of Lujiazui, such as Sinar Mas Center 1 to the north of the Bund in 2017 and the Zhangjiang Science Gate towers in 2024; the latter are the tallest twin towers in Shanghai. Four more supertall skyscrapers are under construction, all located outside of Lujiazui; the tallest of these, North Bund Tower, will reach a height of 480 m (1,575 ft) and be the city's third tallest building upon completion in 2030.
