The current tallest building in China at meters, the World Financial Center offers unparalleled views from its skybridge. The meter Shanghai World Financial Center has become an icon of Shanghai and China, with its clear and elegant form and revolutionary structural design. Against the backdrop of global economic crisis, witnessed the most successful year of skyscraper construction to date, with more skyscrapers constructed globally within a single year than ever before and the average height of the tallest ten constructed in rising to meters.
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Above Ground The number of floors above ground should include the ground floor level and be the number of main floors above ground, including any significant mezzanine floors and major mechanical plant floors.
Below Ground The number of floors below ground should include all major floors located below the ground floor level. Height Floors Official Name The current legal building name. Other Names Other names the building has commonly been known as, including former names, common informal names, local names, etc. Status Completed. Architecturally Topped Out. Structurally Topped Out. Under Construction. On Hold. Never Completed. Competition Entry. Proposed Renovation. Under Renovation.
Under Demolition. A mixed-use tall building contains two or more functions or uses , where each of the functions occupy a significant proportion of the tower's total space. Support areas such as car parks and mechanical plant space do not constitute mixed-use functions. Mixed-Structure Utilizes distinct systems e. Composite A combination of materials e. Examples include buildings which utilize: steel columns with a floor system of reinforced concrete beams; a steel frame system with a concrete core; concrete-encased steel columns; concrete-filled steel tubes; etc.
Official Website. Architectural Height is measured from the level of the lowest, significant, open-air, pedestrian entrance to the architectural top of the building, including spires, but not including antennae, signage, flag poles or other functional-technical equipment.
To Tip Height is measured from the level of the lowest, significant, open-air, pedestrian entrance to the highest point of the building, irrespective of material or function of the highest element i. Occupied Height is measured from the level of the lowest, significant, open-air, pedestrian entrance to the highest occupied floor within the building. Floors Above Ground The number of floors above ground should include the ground floor level and be the number of main floors above ground, including any significant mezzanine floors and major mechanical plant floors.
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Tallest in the World. On 14 September the skyscraper was topped out at There are a total of floors in the building, comprising of floor above the ground and 3 floor under the ground. The ground floor of Shanghai World Financial Center is a shopping mall and an elevator lobby with gyrating kaleidoscopes on the ceiling. On the upper floors are offices, conference rooms, hotel rooms, and observation decks. Park Hyatt Shanghai on the 79th to 93rd floors of the building is the second-highest hotel in the world after The Ritz-Carlton, Hong Kong, which occupies floors to of the International Commerce Centre, comprising of rooms and suites.
The building's most distinctive architectural feature is the aperture at the building peak, which has a trapezoidal shape resembling a bottle opener. It was originally a circular shape but was changed after the government of China objected, stating that the circular hole resembled the rising sun on the Japanese flag. The columns of the mega-structure are of composite structural steel and reinforced concrete, one at each of the four corners of the rectilinear base and six as the floor plan morphs into a six-sided form at higher levels.
ArcelorMittal Steel Sections. Robustness, Redundancy and Safety. The structural system is designed to accept the simultaneous loss of several structural elements. For example, at any level the small perimeter columns can be accidentally removed without the disproportionate collapse of the surrounding structure. Additionally, members of the perimeter belt trusses can be removed without disproportionate collapse. Similarly, accidental removal can be accepted for the steelwork within the services core.
The floors above the 93rd floor are for mechanical use and sightseeing, the 55 m long view corridor on th floor was once the highest observation deck in the world and now ranks as third highest. Way back in , Shanghai authority was planning to build 3 adjacent supertall skyscrapers in Lujiazui district as the landmark of the city. These skyscrapers were set to be built one by one, from the shortest to the tallest, the preparation work of the first and shortest one started in , by the same year Minoru Mori, who was a powerful Japanese building tycoon, came to the city, he had long been dreaming of building a world's tallest building, in the meantime, Zhao Qizheng who was the deputy mayor of Shanghai greeted him and told him the plan for building those supertall skyscrapers and said they are going to build the first one and who would be developing the next two is not yet determined.
Mori replied immediately, saying, 'let me build the second one. Today all the three giant towers have been built, these towers have become a center of tourism and lifestyle.
The most significant feature of the design is that huge trapeziform aperture on the top portion which used to lessen the impact of wind pressure, this wacky feature makes people referring to the building as a bottle opener.
In fact this sort of design is not so rare and unique, it can be found in some other cities, such as Duke Energy Center in Charlotte, Kingdom Center in Riyadh. However this is unfavored and objected by the local people, including the mayor, claiming the circular aperture is too similar to the icon on Japanese national flag. Since then, KPF changed the design to the trapeziform one as we see today.
In fact it becomes more convenient and cheaper for construction after the change of design. Although standing at meters without spire, the building has only stories, featuring a total of , square meters of floor areas, the tower can accommodate 20 thousand of people. The tower's design life is 50 years, this is same as Ping An International Finance Center in Shenzhen, such a lifetime is designed for catering to Country's provisions on commercial land use.
The construction started in August , soon after that the Asian Financial Crisis broke out, the project was forced to suspend due to the lack of funds, by that time the fundation of the tower had been completed. In November , after 6 years of suspension, the project finally gets back on track, by the time some new proposals for skyscrapers in other cities taller than original height m of SWFC had been brought up, among them Taipei had almost topped out.
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