Shanghai Tower

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A comfortable indoor light environment was built by the use of natural lighting, movable external sunshade and sunken plaza. The continuous glass skin admits the maximum amount of daylight into the atriums, reducing the need for artificial lighting. Floor-toceiling glass in the office and hotel floors yields similar benefits to those spaces. To reduce heating and cooling loads, both the inner and outer curtain walls will have a spectrally selective low-E coating. Fritted glass on the outer wall provides additional sunshading, aided by horizontal ledges at each floor level that will block high summer sun.