• Oriental Pearl (TV tower)
  • Jin Mao Building
  • Shanghai World Financial Center (under construction)

Shanghai Skyline

This is Shanghai's equivalent of London's Canary Wharf - 15 years ago there was nothing here. This area now contains two of the tallest buildings in the world and a third one is under construction that will be taller still.

I have a similar shot with the sun behind, with the buildings in silhouette.

This photo was used by the V&A museum in London at their Shanghai City Weekend, 17-18th May 2008..

PLEASE NOTE: this photo is available under the creative commons by-nc-sa license for non-commercial use. It is NOT available for commercial use without prior arrangement. If you want to use it commercially, pleae use the Request to License link on the right.

For the avoidance of doubt, I'm using the CC definition of non-commercial in this case which means you may not use it if your use is "for commercial gain or private monetary advantage". I believe that this includes editorial use, when that use is by a commercial entity.

Comments and faves

  1. ★

    HERI2, Josep Recio, DirtyHarry., goodeye2006, and 48 other people added this photo to their favorites.

  2. vasi v (74 months ago | reply)

    beautiful cityscape!

  3. FloydSlip (73 months ago | reply)

    Congratulations! This photo won its 3Way Challenge!
    Please post it to the 3Way Pool.

  4. robinlikeu (64 months ago | reply)

    very nice shot and a fabulous note.

  5. gabriel.jorby (64 months ago | reply)

    great contrast

  6. ɱårΐӭlL ♣ (62 months ago | reply)

    great picture!

  7. FORTRESSKRFT (61 months ago | reply)

    amazing skyline

  8. jellybeanjill13 (61 months ago | reply)

    Beautiful and clear! It was so foggy the whole time I was there.

    The World Through My Eyes

  9. marin.tomic (61 months ago | reply)

    very beautiful shot

  10. GRAIN MEDIA (52 months ago | reply)

    Hi there Keith,
    I hope you are well. I am getting in touch as I am
    making a film for Al Jazeera English about economic development and pollution and have seen that you have some stunning images of Shanghai. We are trying to source a few images and as your photos are so nice I was wondering whether we might be able
    to use one or two of these for the film?

    If this might be of interest please drop me an email on orlando @ grainmedia.co.uk

    I very much look forward to hearing from you. Thank you so much for
    your time and best wishes,

    Orlando von Einsiedel

    www.grainmedia.co.uk

  11. samthe8th (48 months ago | reply)

    So clean! Nicely done.

  12. 胡人吳Akey™ (45 months ago | reply)

    With an angle
    in the evening

  13. texastravel (35 months ago | reply)

    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Great World Architecture, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

  14. CoffeeTeaMandarin (19 months ago | reply)

    nice

  15. ROY 1994 (18 months ago | reply)

    nice shot.

  16. Brook $hi (18 months ago | reply)

    Nice ！

  17. sanfamedia.com (15 months ago | reply)

    I love this picture. Very nice.

  18. kenneth w2012 (9 months ago | reply)

    OMG and a beautiful shot!!!

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