Top Most Iconic Skyscrapers around the World

Shanghai World Finance Center

Located in Pudong, Shanghai, the Shanghai World Financial Center is a mixed use skyscraper which consists of offices, hotels, conference rooms, observation decks, and shopping malls. The Park Hyatt Shanghai Hotel contains 174 rooms and suites. In 2007 the skyscraper was topped out at 492 meters and became the tallest structure in the China, including Hong Kong.The most distinctive feature in the design of the building is the hole at the top. The original circular design received protests from some Chinese who considered it too similar to the rising sun of the Japanese flag. An alternative design replaced the circle with a trapezoidal hole, which, according to some, makes the building look like a giant bottle opener.