Shanghai Tower

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Shanghai Tower
上海 中心 大厦
Shanghai Tower 上海 中心 大厦
The Shanghai Tower (center) in December 2014
Basic data
Place: Shanghai , People's Republic of ChinaChina People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China 
Construction time : 2008-2015
Status : Built
Architectural style : Modern
Architect : Gensler
Use / legal
Usage : Hotel, offices, exhibitions, viewing platform, shopping center
Owner : Shanghai Tower Development & Construction
Technical specifications
Height : 632 m
Height to the roof: 632 m
Top floor: 561 m
Rank (height) : 3rd place (world)


1st place (China)

Floors : 128
Usable area : 380,000 m²
Building material : Structure: steel , reinforced concrete ; Facade: glass , aluminum
View from the Shanghai Tower observation deck, August 2016

The Shanghai Tower ( Chinese  上海中心大厦 , Pinyin Shànghǎi Zhongxin Dasha  - "Shanghai Center Tower") is a skyscraper in the district of Pudong in Shanghai , which reached its final height of 632 meters on August 3, 2013. The building has 128 floors above and five floors below ground with a gross floor area of 420,000 m². It has 106 elevators and a lobby on the 101st floor. Together with the 420-meter-high Jin Mao Tower and the 492-meter-high Shanghai World Financial Center , it forms an ensemble of three very high skyscrapers in Shanghai's Pudong financial district, with the Shanghai Tower clearly towering above the other two buildings in the ensemble.

Since the topping-out ceremony in August 2013, it has been the tallest building in China and the third tallest structure in the world after the Burj Khalifa in Dubai (828 m) and the Sky Tree in Tokyo (634 m). The skyscraper was completed in summer 2015.

The highest viewing platform on the 121st floor is 562.1 m higher than the one on the Burj Khalifa (555.7 m).

Planning

Plans for the Lujiazui financial district go back to 1993. They showed three tall skyscrapers standing close together. Two of the buildings had already been completed: the Jin Mao Tower was completed in 1998 and the Shanghai World Financial Center in 2008.

After drafts from several architectural firms were submitted, two draft proposals reached the final in spring 2008. Both projects envisaged a 580 meter high tower. The project by the US architecture firm Gensler won first place in June. The building, enclosed by a glass curtain wall , was to emerge as a twisted tower. The structural engineers included Thornton Tomasetti and Ding Jiemin .

architecture

Details

With a height of 632 meters, the Shanghai Tower is the tallest building in the city and China. It clearly exceeds the neighboring 492 meter high Shanghai World Financial Center . Only the 828 meter high Burj Khalifa in Dubai is higher. The public and open viewing platform at a height of 561 meters has been open to visitors since March 2016. This is higher than the one on the Shanghai World Financial Center and also higher than the previously highest viewing platform on the Mecca Royal Clock Tower Hotel in Mecca at 558 meters. The floors are used for different purposes: multiple office space, a luxury hotel and showrooms. According to the plans, a shopping center will also be built in the lower area.

The inside of the tower consists of nine cylindrical, stacked segments that are framed by a glass facade. The outer facade twists upwards. In between, indoor gardens at various heights are to be created as public spaces for the residents of Shanghai. At the foot of the tower, further relaxation facilities and event rooms will be set up.

Marshal Strabala, an employee of Gensler , said in an interview that the Shanghai Tower will “represent China's dynamic future ... It will be an impressive building with which China will both look to the future of this busy and ever-changing metropolis as well as the future of the dynamic Chinese spirit will look. There will be no other tower in the world that is so unique and sophisticated. "

sustainability

According to the design, the facade should be constructed in such a way that it can reduce the wind load on the inner ring by 24 percent, which should save a lot of building material. The twist is also intended to be used to collect rainwater for air conditioning and heating. Wind turbines should also provide energy for the building. It is the first building of this size that is built like a thermos flask with a double-wall system and is intended to save energy.

The owners of the future Shanghai Tower hope to be recognized for sustainability by the China Green Building Committee and the US Green Building Council .

construction

Construction site of the Shanghai Tower, April 2011

The construction site was prepared in 2008. The foundation stone was laid on November 29, 2008 after the tower had passed an environmental impact assessment . The first two permanent construction cranes were installed in April 2010 . After the structure reached street level in January 2011 and the core of the building had already grown a few floors above the ground, two more cranes were erected so that four cranes were now active on the construction site. Construction of the floors began in February 2012, and by the end of September 2012, 80 floors had already been erected in the shell. In October 2012, the installation of the glass panes on the facade on the lower floors began. At the beginning of July 2013, the structure had reached 119 floors and was around 575 meters high. At the beginning of August 2013, the tower with the building core reached its final height.

The building should be finished during the planning phase for Expo 2010 . The year 2014 was targeted as the opening date. The final completion was in the summer of 2015.   

Others

On February 12, 2014, a video was uploaded to the video platform YouTube showing the two Russian roofers (building climbers) Vadim Machorow and Vitaly Raskalow (illegally) climbing the tower. The video was viewed more than 18 million times in less than a week and had over 90 million views at the end of December 2019.

Awards (selection)

Movies

  • Shanghai Tower. (OT: The Vertical City. ) Documentary, Great Britain, USA, 2013, 43:44 min., Written and directed by Rob Slater, production: Blink Films, PBS , series: Skyscrapers - The most spectacular skyscrapers in the world , (OT: Super Skyscrapers ), original first broadcast: February 19, 2014 on PBS, German first broadcast: February 14, 2018 on ZDFinfo , table of contents from fernsehserien.de , online video.
  • Shanghai Tower. Skyscraper - Ingenious technology. (OT: The Shanghai Tower. Skyscraper Of TheFuture. ) Documentary, Great Britain, 2015, 42:55 min., Written and directed: Tom Weller, Matthew Grosch, Greg Williams, Production: Twofour Productions, Series: Geniale Technik , (OT: Impossible Engineering ), original first broadcast: May 11, 2015 on Yesterday, German first broadcast: April 7, 2015 on n-tv , synopsis from fernsehserien.de , online video.

See also

Web links

Commons : Shanghai Tower  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Shanghai Tower. In: emporis.com .
  2. ↑ a b Shanghai Tower. In: Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat .
  3. ↑ a b c d News Release: Tallest Building in China Breaks Ground. ( Memento of March 29, 2009 in the Internet Archive ). In: gensler.com, November 28, 2008, (PDF; 7 p., 86 kB).
  4. ^ A b Deidre Woollard: Shanghai Tower Breaks Ground. ( Memento from September 4, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ). In: Luxist , November 29, 2008.
  5. ↑ a b 上海 中心 大厦 项目 环境 影响 报告 书简 本 公示 ( Chinese , pdf; 216 kB) Envir.gov.cn. August 13, 2008. Retrieved September 10, 2018.
  6. ^ Shanghai Tower - The Skyscraper Center . In: Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat . 2012. Retrieved September 10, 2018.
  7. ↑ 上海 浦东 拟建 世界 第一 高楼 外形 酷似 方尖碑 ( Chinese ) In: People.com.cn . October 26, 2007. Archived from the original on October 29, 2007. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 17, 2008. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / sc.people.com.cn
  8. ↑ Reports on the Shanghai Tower. In: Gensler , (English), accessed on September 10, 2018.
  9. ↑ Chen Qian: City skyscraper to look like coiled dragon. ( Memento of September 29, 2009 in the Internet Archive ). In: Shanghai Daily , June 24, 2008.
  10. ↑ Kelly-Ann Mills: Shanghai Tower: World's second tallest skyscraper's lift opens traveling 18m a second. In: Daily Mirror , March 14, 2016.
  11. ↑ a b American Architect Marshall Strabala In Awe of Shanghai Tower . In: E-Architect.co.uk . November 28, 2008. Retrieved September 10, 2018.
  12. ↑ a b Qian Yanfeng / Ma Zhenhuan: Shanghai draws up plan for nation's tallest building . In: China Daily . February 19, 2008. Retrieved September 10, 2018.
  13. ^ A b Construction of high-rise "Shanghai Center" to start. ( Memento of February 26, 2008 in the Internet Archive ). In: Xinhua , February 17, 2008.
  14. ↑ Wang Yuren: Tallest Lujiazui tower reaches 425m, still growing. ( Memento from June 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ). In: Shanghai Daily , December 27, 2012.
  15. ↑ a b "上海 中心" 规划 方案 曝光 将成 上海 最高 观光 平台 ( Chinese ) In: Sina.com . April 24, 2008. Retrieved May 17, 2008.
  16. ↑ Shanghai Tower (650 meters) , YouTube video

Coordinates: 31 ° 14 ′ 8 ″  N , 121 ° 30 ′ 2 ″  E