Pearl Tower ready for launch

After a Saturday morning trip to the dentist at the Jinmao Tower (a dental practice that ominously advertises “Over 100+ years of German dental experience!”), I took a few snaps of some construction sites in Pudong.

The building in the first photo is the fast rising Shanghai World Financial Center. When it’s finished it will be the world’s tallest building (at least until this is done.)

The last two images I find a bit surreal – a shattered, dystopic sci-fi landscape of industrialization gone madly awry. Plus it looks like the Pearl Oriental Tower is about to be launched into space! Zoom!