pudong Posts

Jun172010

Posted By
Ryan

Photos surface of Shanghai’s new Apple Store to be

Entrance to Apple's Shanghai Store

With no official launch announcement yet, fevered reports are popping up across the Applesphere with new photos of the “cloaked in red, and guarded by ninjas” cylindrical glass tower entrance to Apple’s new underground retail megastore in Shanghai. Set to open mid-July, the red curtains are an auspicious signal to the large Apple lovin’ community in the city (and over here in Suzhou too).

The store will join Beijing’s Sanlitun Lu shop [image], which opened back around this time of year in 2008 … hmmm… Summer 2008/Beijing Olympics, Summer 2010/Shanghai Expo… maybe Guangzhou can expect their own shop sometime in November?

Shanghai is sinkin’ man, and I don’t wanna swim

Shanghai Skyline (c) Ryan McLaughlin

According to an article at Caijing, Shanghai’s rapid development may be causing the city to sink into the sea.

Built on what is largely sandy marshland, according to the Shanghai Institute of Geology, the city has sunk more than two metres in the past 40 years. This sinking is believed to be connected to the massive amounts of steel and concrete being poured on top of the city to facilitate it’s massive expansion in all directions – including up.

Since the 1960s, the city has gone from 40 tall buildings to having about 1,000 buildings more than 100 meters in height. This rise in height of Shanghai’s skyline is nowhere more evident than in the row of uber-tall skyscrapers offering Bund visitors a myriade of technocolour photographs.