Watch the Shanghai Tower go from 0 to 128 stories in this 10-second GIF

By Erik Crouch, July 8, 2015

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The Shanghai Tower - China's tallest building, for now - topped out earlier this year. It is a 128-story behemoth, towering over its (formerly) giant neighbors.

In this wonderful GIF, an unidentified Shanghai photographer captured the tower's steady ascent above the city's skyline, which lasted from roughly 2010 to the summer of 2015. Also, it serves as a steady reminder that this is one smoggy city.

That is one epic erection. 

 

h/t Reddit

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