SHANGHAI | Lujiazui, Plot B2-5 building | 200 M+

[avcellvs]

This is the building under construction on the plot just next to the Shanghai Bank Tower. We have been thinking for mounths that the Jasper Tower will stand there until shanghigh woke us up.

There is not any information available about this project and as nothing surfaced since its construction began, I don't think I'll be able to find anything. No architect and developer name, no renderings. About its height, we can expect a 200+ meters building. May be there are some informations on the yard ?

Shanghigh told us the development name is "Merryland". I did found a http://www.merryland.com.cn site (real estate marketing and banking) but it is in chinese so I can't tell if there is any connection with this project.

Anyway we won't have to wait too long before this building takes shape, for foundation works are now quite advanced.

[avcellvs]

Just a repost of all the plot B2-5 construction photos that were posted by error in the Jasper Tower thread while I thought this was were it was been built. So here are the "Merryland" building construction pix back, by chronological order :


September 28th 2003, from the JinMao, begining of foundation works.

http://mk29.image.pbase.com/u39/tsechien/large/25597458.Shanghai012.jpg


March 7th 2004, very clear weather and sunshine. Colors are over saturated.

http://community.webshots.com/s/image10/5/94/54/134359454JEIJXN_ph.jpg
Full resolution pic :
http://community.webshots.com/s/image10/5/94/54/134359454JEIJXN_fs.jpg


May 26th 2004, from the Oriental Pearl.

http://community.webshots.com/s/image12/7/90/29/146879029ckPiiu_ph.jpg
Full resolution :
http://community.webshots.com/s/image12/7/90/29/146879029ckPiiu_fs.jpg


May 28th 2004, from the JinMao (no high resolution pic)

http://community.webshots.com/s/image12/3/11/52/147031152JeHnKV_ph.jpg


July 13th from the JinMao.

http://image.pbase.com/u34/a_g/upload/31297280.P7100033.JPG


June 19th 2004, from the Oriental Pearl.

http://community.webshots.com/s/image1/2/26/38/154422638mUvUUI_ph.jpg
Full resolution :
http://community.webshots.com/s/image1/2/26/38/154422638mUvUUI_fs.jpg


July 30th 2004, from the JinMao.

http://community.webshots.com/s/image15/2/28/79/169122879azhiMj_ph.jpg
Full resolution :
http://community.webshots.com/s/image15/2/28/79/169122879azhiMj_fs.jpg


Mid august 2004, from the JinMao.

http://community.webshots.com/s/image7/9/51/22/176595122GYrNTc_ph.jpg
Full resolution :
http://community.webshots.com/s/image7/9/51/22/176595122GYrNTc_fs.jpg

[mewonlottery]

It grows really fast...and the little Lujiazui Area will soon be filled with highrise building..I am looking forward to it..

[avcellvs]

September 7th 2004, from the Oriental Pearl.

http://community.webshots.com/s/image7/4/70/43/184747043ClEAyI_ph.jpg
Full resolution :
http://community.webshots.com/s/image7/4/70/43/184747043ClEAyI_fs.jpg

[avcellvs]

September 12th 2004, from the JinMao. No evidence of obvious changes.
On the contrary, things seem to be moving on North Bund bank.

http://community.webshots.com/s/image17/6/79/19/184167919IgPoVj_ph.jpg
Full resolution :
http://community.webshots.com/s/image17/6/79/19/184167919IgPoVj_fs.jpg

[avcellvs]

September 12th 2004, from the JinMao

http://www.stokely.org/20040912-shanghai/PICT1474-small.JPG

High resolution :
http://www.stokely.org/20040912-shanghai/PICT1474.JPG

[avcellvs]

Finally a rendering surfaces, the building is a total disaster. 41 floors high.

http://www.worldisround.com/hosted/7/340/469.jpg

[teddybear]

gosh, if they can replace the roof with a nicer design! The whole theme of this area is futuristic and they try to build something with red roof?

[avcellvs]

All we can hope for this building is that the rendering that surfaced a few weeks ago is no more of actuality or this building wil be the shame of Lujiazui.


October 30th 2004, from the HSBC tower. The two planned underground floors have now been dug.

http://www.worldisround.com/hosted/7/340/230.jpg

Full resolution : http://www.worldisround.com/hosted/7/340/230_o.jpg


November 4th 2004

http://www.worldisround.com/hosted/7/340/123.jpg

Full resolution : http://www.worldisround.com/hosted/7/340/123_o.jpg

[Fabb]

It's not a "total disaster".
It's just another retro design.

[avcellvs]

It's not a "total disaster".
It's just another retro design.


That's why it's a total disaster, a 50s russian tower among an emerging XXIth century CDB, it's totally out of context and not in an interesting way.

[null]

ugly as hell

[avcellvs]

December 14th 2004. A second, bigger crane on the plot.

http://www2.xitek.com/forum/200412/545/54574/54574_1103016127.jpg

[yarabundi]

This building reminds me of early 20th century New-York. Not bad by itself. Not sure though it will fit its surrounding. On the other hand, its uniqueness might make it stand out of the crowd.
I wouldn't mind something similar in my hometown : Montréal, Canada.

[Aboveday]

Temple of Mickey Mouse.

[colemonkee]

Not sure though it will fit its surrounding. On the other hand, its uniqueness might make it stand out of the crowd.

Really we'll have to wait and see if it fits in. It will sit right next to a blatantly postmodern design, which might help make the transition from 20th Century New York neo-gothicism (not sure if that's even a real term - lol) to the 21st century designs of the rest of the area. If the facade treatment is more of a reflective metallic surface and not concrete, it might be something really nice. Otherwise, I agree. It could suck something fierce.

But I'm still optimistic...

[yarabundi]

On the other hand, why not ? a building that stands out simply because everything else around it is futuristic ( let's say : asian post-modernism ? ) After all, all of our north-american downtowns are built from different style buildings, all of which are witnessing their own decades._Sometimes, a building does the opposite : the A.T.& T. building ( now Sony Towre ) with its Chippendale top is nothing else than historicism._Doesn't fit but stands out. Maybe the same will aplly to this building here - though with less permanent impression probably.

[Benhamin]

Very disappointing. I'm a real big fan of most of what China does, but definitely not this :no:.

[Benhamin]

Is it just me, or does this building look like it might work in a city like Savannah or Charleston?

[Fabb]

Maybe the façade treatment will make it look nice. Retro top above a contemporary shaft, why not ?

[avcellvs]

January 1st 2005, from the Oriental Pearl.

http://image30.webshots.com/30/1/69/22/246616922srDcmI_ph.jpg
Full resolution :
http://image30.webshots.com/30/1/69/22/246616922srDcmI_fs.jpg

[avcellvs]

March 2nd 2005. Another pic by Cityrain the guy who started the WFC thread on the cameraunion forum. Many thanks to him for providing us with all these foused infos.

Finally the tower starts to rise. Let's hope some changes have been made since its infamous rendering surfaced.

http://image2.xitek.com/forum/200503/545/54574/54574_1109727193.jpg

[Chad]

Thanks to him and to you lah.

[avcellvs]

March 18th 2005. The core is begining to rise. Soon we shall be able to see construction progress from the Bund too.
Not many changes in the Shanghai Bank Building cladding.

http://www2.xitek.com/forum/200503/545/54574/54574_1111123829.jpg

[avcellvs]

February 25th 2005, from the Oriental Pearl (by moyan808). Lots of informations on this photo.

First floor of the Merryland core.
On the Jasper tower plot, underground floors seem to be under construction, too bad we don't see more.
Construction has definitively resumed on the Gran Melia plot too.
The cladding of the AZIA center top is different from the rest, isn't it.
Look at those cleared plots, north to the soon relocated ship yard, I wonder what has been planned for this big area. An extension of the Lujiazui zone adding density to in the background of the 90s first towers would be ideal but when I walked there, I saw some recent residentials (both midrises and lowrises) so I'm not sure this will be planned as a CBD, not even the closer part to Lujiazui.

http://image2.xitek.com/forum/200503/1095/109572/109572_1111730930.jpg

[avcellvs]

March 24th 2205, from WaiTan. See the crane ? It gives an indication of the building impact on that cluster density. The AZIA Center should not look isolated no more when the Merryland building, The Development and Jasper towers will be completed.

http://image40.webshots.com/41/8/61/71/303286171kmngOj_ph.jpg

[avcellvs]

April 8th 2005 :

http://image2.xitek.com/forum/200504/456/45621/45621_1112966901.jpg

[avcellvs]

April 8th 2005, from the podium of the Oriental Pearl. This view helps figuring out the impact of this new tower on the block density from this angle.

http://image42.webshots.com/43/2/98/2/316029802RtwszP_ph.jpg
Full resolution :
http://image42.webshots.com/43/2/98/2/316029802RtwszP_fs.jpg

[colemonkee]

Wow, already above ground. This one should go quickly. On another note, it seems like they're taking their sweet time on the Shanghai Bank building...

[avcellvs]

April 7th 2005, from the JinMao.

http://image24.webshots.com/25/1/59/71/315215971RNatyq_ph.jpg
Full resolution :
http://image24.webshots.com/25/1/59/71/315215971RNatyq_fs.jpg

[avcellvs]

April 22th 2005, from WaiTan. The core is now visible from the Bund.

http://image36.webshots.com/37/1/56/92/324815692oKkScQ_ph.jpg
Full resolution :
http://image36.webshots.com/37/1/56/92/324815692oKkScQ_fs.jpg

[Fabb]

I can't see the core.
Just two cranes in the gap between the oriental pearl and the cluster of skyscrapers on its right.

[avcellvs]

^ Just against the Shanghai Bank building, at the right of the crane. It is not very high yet.

[avcellvs]

April 29th 2005. Quick progress.

http://www2.xitek.com/forum/200504/545/54574/54574_1114750988.jpg

[Fabb]

That was fast.
It'll probably be topped out next year.

[avcellvs]

It's strange, the metallic structure does not fit the floor plan at the corners.

MAY BE THE BUILDING WILL BE DIFFERENT FROM THE INFAMOUS RENDERING THAT SURFACED OUT MOUNTHS AGO !! :crazy:

[avcellvs]

May 11th 2005.

http://image2.xitek.com/forum/200505/545/54574/54574_1115809098.jpg

On the plot behind, I think the Gran Melia hotel is rising above ground too. Soon the Jasper tower, then the Hopson, later the Development tower (what's new about the exciting X3-2 tower and the Pelli twins ?) : many changes to come in Lujiazui in the next mounths.

[colemonkee]

This area never seems to stop. Very exciting stuff going on, and for quite some time into the future, it seems.

[avcellvs]

AntonAusTirol strikes again ! (http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?postid=1337449#post1337449) .

Here is one of his a great panoramas from the Hongkou district, see the Merryland building core rising next to the Shanghai Bank.

http://210.245.164.161/albums3/taco1rodriguez/taco1rodriguez/26472_j_26725.jpg

[avcellvs]

May 13th 2005, from WaiTan.

http://image14.webshots.com/14/6/54/83/344265483aMhGgJ_ph.jpg

[avcellvs]

May 20th 2005.

http://image2.xitek.com/forum/200505/545/54574/54574_1116566504.jpg

[avcellvs]

May 17th 2005, from the Oriental Pearl.

http://image46.webshots.com/46/1/61/67/347916167nRDjFk_ph.jpg
Ful resolution :
http://image46.webshots.com/46/1/61/67/347916167nRDjFk_fs.jpg

[avcellvs]

May 27th 2005. Cityrain new post.

http://www2.xitek.com/forum/200505/545/54574/54574_1117175080.jpg

[avcellvs]

June 2005, from the entrance of the Oriental Pearl (see the Shanghai bank building cladding progress too).

http://mk31.image.pbase.com/v3/20/440020/1/44501919.32pudong.jpg

[avcellvs]

June 8th 2005 from the Huangpu river :

http://image40.webshots.com/41/8/63/90/364386390stZBeJ_ph.jpg



June 13th 2005, from the JinMao :

http://image12.webshots.com/12/5/29/37/368252937FiaUNx_ph.jpg

[avcellvs]

June 16th 2005, from the Huangpu river.

http://image22.webshots.com/22/4/85/53/371248553rmIbWm_ph.jpg

[avcellvs]

June 19th 2005, from Century avenue. Just rising above the Central Green park trees.

http://image22.webshots.com/22/7/93/94/373779394TAsSYz_ph.jpg
Full resolution :
http://image22.webshots.com/22/7/93/94/373779394TAsSYz_fs.jpg

[avcellvs]

June 25th 2005, from the JinMao

http://image2.xitek.com/forum/200506/1198/119895/119895_1119670986.jpg

[avcellvs]

July 15th 2005, from the China Merchants Building. (pic by Cityrain)

http://image2.xitek.com/forum/200507/545/54574/54574_1121423473.jpg

[avcellvs]

Another rendering by Moyan808.

http://www3.worldisround.com/hosted/16/320/161.jpg

I still wonder how construction of such a retro building in the Lujiazui CBD got a green light.
A counterfeiting of an old american skyscraper in a chinese twenty first century CBD !
Cheap contrast indeed, How creative !

May be I didn't get it...

- A kind of "Fuck the context !" manifesto ?
- An honnest revolutionary attempt ?
- The birth of trash urbanism ? (just wait for the Pingan Financial Mansion on the next block)
- Ikebana as urbanism (Oh ! Yes, yes, yes ! That red roof will be of the most great effect
next to the green glass of the AZIA center curtain wall, wouldn't it) ?
- Sabotage ?
- A new form of terrorism ?

Wait, wait ! We're still left with the safety wheel of post greening : do sequoias grow in Shanghai ?

(Panic in Lujiazui)

[avcellvs]

July 18th 2005, from the JinMao

http://image.xitek.com/forum/200507/1849/184976/184976_1121701110.jpg

[avcellvs]

July 22th 2005, from the China Merchants Building (by cityrain).

http://image.xitek.com/forum/200507/545/54574/54574_1122010316.jpg

[avcellvs]

July 31th 2005, from the ground. A cameraunion post.

http://image.xitek.com/forum/200507/1915/191592/191592_1122792214.jpg

[avcellvs]

July 31th, from Central Green.

http://image.xitek.com/forum/200507/1915/191598/191598_1122803659.jpg

[avcellvs]

June 29th 2005, from the Oriental Pearl. A very high resolution pic of the building yard. (from http://www.behind-the-wall.org)

http://www.behind-the-wall.org/albums/20050629-shanghai/dsc06237.sized.jpg

High resolution : http://www.behind-the-wall.org/albums/20050629-shanghai/dsc06237.jpg

[avcellvs]

August 5th 2005, from the ground, by cityrain.

http://image2.xitek.com/forum/200508/545/54574/54574_1123202779.jpg

[Chad]

WOW!, Marvelous lighting!!

[avcellvs]

August 7th 2005, a zoom on the building from the China Merchants Tower (by cityrain). Nice view on the Pudong Gran Melia Hotel too.

http://image2.xitek.com/forum/200508/545/54574/54574_1123414679.jpg

[avcellvs]

September 9th 2005, from WaiTan. Damned I hoped it would be more hidden from the Bund. It's quite exposed. :no:

http://image52.webshots.com/52/6/77/94/445267794pXqNdx_ph.jpg
Full resolution :
http://image52.webshots.com/52/6/77/94/445267794pXqNdx_fs.jpg

[colemonkee]

IMO it doesn't look nearly as bad as the NEC/VW building directly to the left of it in that picture.

[Fabb]

It's rising fast.
The rendering makes it look bulkier than it is.

[avcellvs]

Yes it'z rizing fast, Monsieur, probably becauz zis tower iz razer sin... :hilarious

Yes, the NEC building is not a beauty, one of the oldest ones in Lujiazui. May be it will get recladded like the midrise besides the HSBC tower in this pic and the sooner the better that Merryshit Building under construction too :hell: (sorry, I couldn't help). May be we'll have a surprise when the building will get completed, we only know this terrible rendering by now. There might be some hope :rolleyes: ...


August 2005, from The Huangpu river (quite rare angle)

http://image57.webshots.com/57/8/82/4/445688204cqMjwo_ph.jpg
Full resolution :
http://image57.webshots.com/57/8/82/4/445688204cqMjwo_fs.jpg

[avcellvs]

September 9th 2005, from the Oriental Pearl.

http://image63.webshots.com/63/6/74/60/447967460HQAihw_ph.jpg

http://image64.webshots.com/64/6/73/67/447967367loRhwf_ph.jpg

[Chad]

Fast growing tower!!

[phillyskyline]

i like the crown but dont like rest of the building....

[avcellvs]

September 14th 2005, from the Bund. From this angle, the tower core is now visible above the mall.

http://www.worldisround.com/hosted/19/306/290.jpg

Full resolution : http://www.worldisround.com/hosted/19/306/290_o.jpg

[avcellvs]

September 30th 2005, pic by Cityrain.

http://image2.xitek.com/forum/200510/545/54574/54574_1128137138.jpg

[avcellvs]

October 11th 2005, by Citrain.

http://image2.xitek.com/forum/200510/545/54574/54574_1128953250.jpg

[avcellvs]

October 19th 2005, from WaiTan.

http://image64.webshots.com/164/5/56/55/471655655lnOurO_ph.jpg
Full resolution :
http://image64.webshots.com/164/5/56/55/471655655lnOurO_fs.jpg

[mewonlottery]

These are some awesome pictures

[avcellvs]

October 21th 2005, from the Oriental Pearl

http://image55.webshots.com/155/8/31/26/482083126OfSZOP_ph.jpg
Full resolution :
http://image55.webshots.com/155/8/31/26/482083126OfSZOP_fs.jpg

[avcellvs]

November 1st 2005, pix from the cameraunion forum.

http://image.xitek.com/forum/200511/2182/218282/218282_1130851445.jpg

http://image.xitek.com/forum/200511/2182/218282/218282_1130850769.jpg

[giallo]

Nov. 24th


http://www.inclearimage.com/giallo/bet%20it/unknown.jpg

[colemonkee]

I'm interesting in seeing the cladding for this building. When they initially released the renderings, some people called it a disaster. I wonder if that will be true.

[Fabb]

I can't believe that such a nice construction is going to turn into this :


http://www.worldisround.com/hosted/7/340/469.jpg

[Michael Paur]

Hi all,

Here a view from mid September - seen from the park in front of the buildings...
http://www.kitzastro.net/pics/IMG_0936.JPG


Greetings

Mike

Pics of my Shanghai Trip 2005 (http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?threadid=92587)

[Fabb]

Thanks.
The progress has been impressive mid September.

[giallo]

I have a feeling the building is going to look like a bigger version of this one on Yan 'an Rd.



http://www.inclearimage.com/giallo/yan%20'an.jpg

[giallo]

Dec 1st


http://www.inclearimage.com/giallo/Merryland.jpg




http://www.inclearimage.com/giallo/Merryland2.jpg

[giallo]

This building looks so solid right now. I wonder if we'll be pleasantly surprised with the final result.


Dec 19th

http://www.inclearimage.com/giallo/dec19merry.jpg




http://www.inclearimage.com/giallo/dec19merry2.jpg

[colemonkee]

It seems that in Shanghai they build the entire structural system before starting on the facade. Thanks for the pics! Can't wait to see some facade.

[avcellvs]

22th December 2005, from the HSBC tower, by vcgod

http://image2.xitek.com/forum/200512/2331/233100/233100_1135258127.jpg

[giallo]

Dec. 26th

http://www.inclearimage.com/giallo/dec26merry.jpg

[giallo]

Jan 11th

http://www.inclearimage.com/giallo/jan11merry2.jpg


Development Tower and Jasper will help to create a nice walled effect along the street.

http://www.inclearimage.com/giallo/jan11merry.jpg

[avcellvs]

Too bad the SHKP project is going to break this "walled effect" on the other side of Century Avenue. Circling Lujiazui's three supertalls this way would have been great.

[avcellvs]

Setback floors construction, the building is neraly topped out. I can't wait for the cladding to begin, will it be retro or will it create a sort of distance that save the building a bit ? Same thing with the roof colour, I hope it won't be red as in the rendering (next to AZIA Center green glass... :yuck:)

[Fabb]

http://www.worldisround.com/hosted/7/340/469.jpg

The unclad version of the building looks better than that^

[giallo]

Feb 10


http://www.inclearimage.com/giallo/feb10merry.jpg

[xiahoudun]

I took these pics on 13-02-06, and the one from the Oriental Pearl Tower a week before that. Enjoy.

http://belal.komterug.nl/docroot/img/fotos/belal_m4100103.jpg

http://belal.komterug.nl/docroot/img/fotos/belal_m4100104.jpg

http://belal.komterug.nl/docroot/img/fotos/belal_m4100066.jpg

[Fabb]

Thanks !
So far they form a nice cluster.

[Patrick]

Wow, thats a plain looking building! The Tower next to it is very nice ;)

[avcellvs]

A february 24th 2006 posted pic, from the Oriental Pearl.

http://image62.webshots.com/162/4/34/44/2966434440073158460atqFUA_fs.jpg

[giallo]

March 1


http://www.inclearimage.com/giallo/mar1merry.jpg

[avcellvs]

March 6th 2006, the top setbacks from the HSBC Tower

http://image2.xitek.com/forum/200603/2068/206882/206882_1141636952.jpg

[giallo]

Mar 13


http://www.inclearimage.com/giallo/mar13merry.jpg




Notice the right hand corner of the top of the building.

http://www.inclearimage.com/giallo/mar13merry2.jpg




Forty five minutes later they had the first signs of the crown up. Quick, huh?

http://www.inclearimage.com/giallo/mar13merry3.jpg

[giallo]

Mar 28

http://www.inclearimage.com/giallo/mar28merry3.jpg

They are starting to clad the building. It will be a brownish, *gulp* pinkish marble. The marble looks really nice in person actually. Quite shiny.


http://www.inclearimage.com/giallo/mar28merry2.jpg

[colemonkee]

Hmmm. The rendering makes it look like a bright white marble.

[giallo]

Apr 11


The crown is really coming along

http://www.inclearimage.com/giallo/apr11merry.jpg




http://www.inclearimage.com/giallo/apr11merry2.jpg




http://www.inclearimage.com/giallo/apr11merry5.jpg




http://www.inclearimage.com/giallo/apr11merry3.jpg




http://www.inclearimage.com/giallo/apr11merry4.jpg

[avcellvs]

April, 13th 2006, from the HSBC tower (pic by oysterperpetual)

a closeup of the Merrushit Bd. crown construction :

http://image.xitek.com/forum/200604/2068/206882/206882_1144919205.jpg

another part of the plot (too bad no construction is planned there) :

http://image.xitek.com/forum/200604/2068/206882/206882_1144919280.jpg

[Fabb]

So, they stick to this ugly crown. I hoped that they had realized it was not such a goog idea.