Timeline of Tallest Buildings
This lists buildings that once held the title of tallest building in Shanghai.
| Name | Street address | Years as tallest | Height |
Floors | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peace Hotel | 20 Nanjing Road East | 1929–1934 | 77 / 253 | 13 | |
| Park Hotel | 170 Nanjing West Road | 1934–1983 | 84 / 275 | 22 | |
| Shanghai Hotel | 505 Wulumuqi Road North | 1983–1985 | 91 / 299 | 27 | |
| Union Friendship Tower | — | 1985–1988 | 106 / 348 | 30 | |
| Jin Jiang Tower | 161 Changle Road | 1988–1990 | 153 / 502 | 46 | |
| The Portman Ritz-Carlton | 1376 Nanjing Xi Lu | 1990–1995 | 165 / 541 | 48 | |
| China Merchants Tower | Lujiazui Central Financial District | 1995–1996 | 186 / 610 | 38 | |
| King Tower | Xin Jin Qiao Rd | 1996–1998 | 212 / 696 | 38 | |
| Jin Mao Tower | 88 Century Boulevard | 1998–2007 | 421 / 1,380 | 88 | |
| Shanghai World Financial Center | Century Boulevard | 2007–present | 492 / 1,614 | 101 |
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Famous quotes containing the words tallest and/or buildings:
“But not the tallest there, ‘tis said,
Could fathom to this pond’s black bed.”
—Edmund Blunden (1896–1974)
“The American who has been confined, in his own country, to the sight of buildings designed after foreign models, is surprised on entering York Minster or St. Peter’s at Rome, by the feeling that these structures are imitations also,—faint copies of an invisible archetype.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)