The Skyscraper That Twists to Beat the Wind (Shanghai Tower)

The Shanghai Tower is 632 metres tall - the second tallest building in the world - and it twists a full 120 degrees from base to top. That spiral is not for looks. It is a wind-beating machine. This is the Shanghai Tower, and its shape is its structure. We cover why a tall, flat-sided tower fears the wind; how rounding the corners and twisting the whole body means the wind never meets the same face twice, so the dangerous swirls can never organise into a push; how the final form cut the wind lo