Is Shanghai’s new tallest ever going to be topped out? Under construction
  since 1997 with several “on-holds” and “re-designs”
  makes the most optimistic f*ck consider a rope somewhere…This is what
  it used to look like, before the refurbishment:

Photo courtesy to Kohn Pedersen Fox Accosiates PC.

and this is the after picture…

Photo courtesy to Kohn Pedersen Fox Accosiates PC.

 …See the difference? Going from a bloody hole to a rectangle in eight
  years of time -nice progress boys! Nah, enough of this sarcasm, can’t
  help it sometimes, it’s actually one of my favourite projects at the
  time. Sorry. Portraited on the picture is also Shanghai’s current tallest,
  the Jin Mao building, which will be beaten with over 60 m (200 ft)!
  A six star hotel will occupy the top most floors and cross the rectangle
  will be an open-air skybridge making it the tallest outdoor observation
  deck in the world! And the credits goes to Danish-American collaboration
  Kohn Pedersen Fox Accosiates PC and East China Architectural Design
  & Research Institute Co. Ltd, let us keep our fingers crossed for
  2008 folks!

  Fast Facts:

  Shanghai World Financial Center

  Status: Under Construction

  Expected Completion: 2008

  Height: 492 m(1614 ft)

  Floors: 101

  Architects: Kohn Pedersen Fox Accosiates PC and East China Architectural Design