Construction of the Chinese mainland’s tallest building was temporarily halted this week due to fires breaking out on three of the floors.
It is said to have been caused by a welder's torch with the sparks falling from the upper floors igniting general construction waste on the floors below.
The Shanghai World Financial Centre is still expected to reach the proposed 492 meters next year on schedule.
All that remains is construction of the hole at the top which was originally meant to be a moon gate as often found in gardens of the rich upper-class Chinese. However, there were protests from those who considered it too similar to the rising sun in the Japanese flag. The answer – place a bridge at the bottom of the aperture to make it less circular. It now looks more like the World's largest bottle opener.
Comments (1)
don't mean to nit-pick.....but.. the title of the story (brilliant, very original) should really be 'flaming high' as opposed to 'flaming tall' if you were going for the pun and not an alf stewart quote.
Posted by james | August 16, 2007 10:21 PM
Posted on August 16, 2007 22:21