One of those luxurious malls on Nanjing Lu where I never see anyone buying.

Normally I observe construction from the sidewalk but every now and then I have the chance to go higher and see it from a different perspective.

Although a lot of buildings are taken down to make place for big and mostly ugly sky scrapers, the local government is starting to realize (slowly) that it makes sense to protect some of the heritage.

Another roof has disappeared. One moment it’s there, a couple of hours later it’s disappeared.

View from the terrace of Element Fresh, an American restaurant on one of the many modern buildings in Shanghai.