The Jin Mao tower, Lujiazui financial and trade zone, Shanghai
Designed by US architects SOM, the Jin Mao is 88 stories high and has nearly 300,000 m2 of floorspace. It's 340.1m high, making it the tallest building in China. Each of more than 1000 piles runs 83.5m deep. The building weights 300,000 tons, of which 76,000 come from its steel. It boasts 79 lifts: the two fastest run at more than nine metres a second. Man days spent in construction: four million.
Picture: James Woudhuysen

Construction and cities

2 February 2012 | spiked

All this carbon-cutting is a waste of energy

Neither Boris Johnson nor Ken Livingstone is willing to deliver the uninterrupted, cheap energy London needs

25 January 2012 | Amadeus

Back on track

Europe's railways need to up their game in IT 1.2MB

29 December 2011 | Campaign, 16 September 1988

How design got High Streed cred

The British High Street began to swing in the 1960s. By 1988, the frothiest year of the Thatcher decade, it really hurtled

11 October 2011 | The Independent

The end is nigh: is survival all we can hope for?

In their policies for energy and for the economy, British politicians hold up continued existence as the maximum goal we should strive for

28 April 2011 | Akzo book on colour, forthcoming

Cities and colour

How colour will likely change the urban landscape in future 135kB

20 April 2011 | the next step, 15 July 1988

Remembering Piper Alpha

A year after the explosion at BP's Deepwater Horizon oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico, an earlier, much deadlier blast in British waters still has plenty of relevance

30 March 2011 | spiked

Budgeting for a dismal no-growth future

For all their talk of innovation, the Lib-Cons are more concerned with pinching pennies than investing

7 October 2010 | spiked

A very conservative approach to innovation

The Lib-Con coalition is more concerned with controlling behaviour than forging a brave, hi-tech future

27 August 2010 | spiked review of books

‘Lifestyles will have to be redesigned'

A Guardian journalist’s ranting about the ‘neglect, greed and human filth’ of modern China shows that new prejudices about a Green Peril have replaced old fears of the Yellow Peril

8 April 2010 | spiked

Election 2010: question everything on innovation!

This article explores the roots of Britain's current neglect of scientific and technological innovation, and calls for the creation of new industries for the twenty-first century

7 April 2010 | Proof

Letter from India

Sights and insights from Mumbai and Kerala 1.3MB

16 September 2009 | Eastern Cape Socio-Economic Consultative Council

Challenge of the crisis

In terms of the workforce skills it develops, how should a region of South Africa like the Eastern Cape respond to the credit crunch? 6MB

21 July 2009 | spiked

Who’s afraid of electric vehicles?

The fact that Greens oppose even eco-friendly electric cars shows that what they really dislike is travel itself

1 May 2009 | spiked

The myth that New Labour is pro-nuclear

Everyone from big business to greens imagines that British government policy favours nuclear energy. It doesn’t

24 March 2009 | New Civil Engineer

Science, engineering and the two Cabinets

How many of our leaders in New Labour and the Conservatives have any background in technology or business?

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