Shanghai International Cruise Terminal

摘要

Without fail in Shanghai, at dusk, the city is transformed. It's freakish skyscrapers - unabashed and mutant in daylight — take on another guise. They become like special effects, like a backdrop to things you've seen before, but not for real, perhaps like the opening sequence of Blade Runner, or archive footage of a neon New York. The second-tallest building in the world, the KPF-designed Shanghai World Trade Centre (SWTC) towers over them all, a thin strip of blue light outlining its shape and the gaping, squint square hole carved out of its peak. You blink, and blink again, but when you open your eyes, the city is still there. Shanghai is for real.