Chief architect of Shanghai Tower draws up blueprint for Shanghai

(Marshall Strabala has an interview with Eastday.com.)

Design concept of Shanghai Tower

Marshall is one of the few super-tall building architects in the world. Before the Shanghai Tower, he was involved in the design of two world-famous super-high buildings: Burj Khalifa (828m) and Nanjing Zifeng Building (450m). However, the Shanghai Tower is the world’s first building with a double-skin glass façade. Using a thermos bottle, Marshall explained the design concept of the Shanghai Tower: Do more with less. “Shanghai Tower is just like this thermos bottle. So we couldn’t just do a simple straightforward building. We wanted to do a building that would save energy. When I say save energy, I mean save energy for the next hundred years. If the calculations are right, the amount of energy we will save over the next 75 years would pay for another building just like the Shanghai Tower.”