Gensler 

Location: Shanghai, China

The 127-story, 576,000-square-meter icon is currently ranked as the tallest building in Asia and the second tallest on the planet, the 632-meter tower is a premiere global financial center, containing Grade A office space, entertainment venues, retail, an exhibition center, boutique hotel, and cultural venues. Its curved façade and spiraling form symbolize the emergence of modern China as a global financial power. The tower’s tapering profile and rounded corners allow the building to withstand the typhoon-force winds reducing building wind loads by 24 percent. More than a landmark, the mixed-use tower represents a new way of envisioning and creating cities.