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The 2010 Shanghai fire [Note 1] was a fire on 15 November 2010 that destroyed a 28-story high-rise apartment building in the heart of Shanghai, China, killing at least 58 people [3] [4] and injuring more than 70 others [5] (with at least one source reporting more than 120 others injured). [6] Most of the residents were retired state school ...
Shanghai Tower ( Chinese: 上海中心大厦; pinyin: Shànghǎi Zhōngxīn Dàshà; Shanghainese: Zånhe Tsonsin Dusa; lit. 'Shanghai Center Building') is a 128-story, 632-meter-tall (2,073 ft) megatall skyscraper located in Lujiazui, Pudong, Shanghai. [ 10] It is the tallest building in China and the world's third-tallest building by height ...
Park Hyatt Shanghai is the tower's hotel component, comprising 174 rooms and suites occupying the 79th to the 93rd floors, which at the time of completion was the highest hotel in the world. It is now the third-highest hotel in the world after the Ritz-Carlton, Hong Kong , which occupies floors 102 to 118 of the International Commerce Centre .
February 14–15 – Windsor Tower fire in Madrid, ... November 15 – 2010 Shanghai fire, China, [74] high-rise apartment building fire killed at least 53.
The Jin Mao Tower (simplified Chinese: 金 茂 大厦; traditional Chinese: 金 茂 大廈; pinyin: Jīnmào Dàshà; Shanghainese: Cinmeu Dagho; lit.‘Golden Prosperity Building’), also known as the Jinmao Building or Jinmao Tower, is a 420.5-meter-tall (1,380 ft), 88-story (93 if counting the floors in the spire) landmark skyscraper in Lujiazui, Pudong, Shanghai, China.
On 14 June 2017, a high-rise fire broke out in the 24-storey Grenfell Tower block of flats in North Kensington, West London, at 00:54 BST and burned for 60 hours. 70 people died at the scene, and 2 people died later in hospital, with more than 70 injured and 223 escaping. It was the deadliest structural fire in the United Kingdom since the 1988 ...
Oriental Pearl Tower. / 31.2416694°N 121.4947167°E / 31.2416694; 121.4947167. The Oriental Pearl Radio & Television Tower[ a] is a TV tower in Shanghai. It is located on the banks of the Huangpu River, in Lujiazui, Pudong, opposite of the Bund. Since its opening in 1995, the tower has become a major tourist attraction and a cultural ...
The Dàjìng Gé Pavilion wall, which is the only remaining part of the Old City of Shanghai wall The history of Shanghai spans over a thousand years and closely parallels the development of modern China. Originally a small agricultural village, Shanghai developed during the late Qing dynasty (1644–1912) as one of China's principal trading ports. Although nominally part of China, in practice ...