Comments by "Peter Jacobsen" (@pjacobsen1000) on "Why Shanghai Tower Failed" video.

  1.  @ArghyadeepPal  It's a long and tedious story: The SWFC (bottle opener) was designed, built and partly financed by the Japanese developer Mori Corporation, quite famous in Japan for several iconic projects in Tokyo. After construction had begun and the designs became more well known, an overly nationalistic Chinese citizennoticed the circle on top and came up with the conspiracy theory that it symbolized Japans Imperial 'rising sun' flag (with the red and white rays) used during WW2. He came to the belief that this was meant to symbolize Japan's eternal supremacy over China, even in modern times, with the 'flag' flying high (SWFC was China's tallest building at the time) over the nation. He spread this theory far and wide, more people got alarmed by this until the local govt. felt they could no longer hold back this anti-Japanese sentiment. So they consulted with the developer and got to the agreement that the design had to be changed. Thus, the trapezoid.
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  2.  @ArghyadeepPal  There's no nickname for the Jinmao Tower. Jinmao is an easy name to remember and say. The 'bottle opener' has a much more complex name: Shanghai World Financial Center, or SWFC for short. But even SWFC can be difficult to remember, thus The Bottle Opener. Originally, it wasn't supposed to look like a bottle opener, as the hole up top was designed to be circular. But for political reasons, they changed it to a trapezoid.
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  3.  @juliusnigelmarturillas3629  I'm not over dramatizing, or even dramatizing it. It happened as I describe. I was here during the entire project, from start to finish. Also, feel free to look up the Wikipedia page, which says much the same: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_World_Financial_Center. That is sure to make you think "Fucking hell, that Peter Jacobsen was right, after all, as he always is!"
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  4.  @hansheinrich958  Please see my answer to অର୍ଘ୍ୟਦੀప पाல
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  5.  @zhewu9052  I used to teach 雅思 IELTS in Shanghai. Level 6 is pretty good.
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  6.  @ginawiggles918  Please see my answer elsewhere in this comment thread.
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  7.  @哈尼腥  That is correct.
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  8.  @987dhcvt  Well, it was designed by an American architect firm, so I don't think that's a correct conclusion.
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