棟樓開始起嗰時，相關部門就擬定咗同發展大廈之間起天橋嘅計劃，原本計劃以地下道方式連接，但有專家話上海環球金融中心同金茂大廈兩幢摩天大樓之間得一條馬路之隔，如果仲開挖地下道，咁上海地面沉降嘅狀況將變得更加嚴重，同時陸家嘴地區複雜嘅地下管線系統之間亦都冇幾多地方留畀地下道，最屘趨向於起「陸家嘴天橋」嘅方案。而家下，陸家嘴明珠環天橋已經起好，將環球金融中心融入咗全陸家嘴嘅「空中步行圈」中。
At the beginning of the building, the relevant departments drew up a plan to build a flyover between the development building, which was originally planned to be connected by an underpass, but some experts said that there is only one road between the two skyscrapers of the Shanghai World Financial Center and the Jin Mao Tower, and if the underground tunnel is also excavated, then the situation of land subsidence in Shanghai will become more serious, and at the same time, there is not much space left for the underpass between the complex underground pipeline system in the Lujiazui area, and the most inclined to start the "Lujiazui flyover" plan. Now that it is low, the Lujiazui Pearl Ring Bridge has been built, integrating the World Financial Center into the "Sky Walking Circle" of the whole Lujiazui.