Shanghai Tower
The Shanghai Tower is a mega-tall skyscraper. With a height of 632 meters, it has replaced the status of Jin Mao Tower and the Shanghai World Financial Center, and becomes the landmark of Shanghai. Currently, it is the second highest building in China, and the fourth highest building in the world. The appearance of the Shanghai Tower is spiral escalation, its opening of the surface goes through from the bottom to the top by rotation. Watching from the top, it looks like a guitar pick. The torsion resistance is near 1° as the height grows.
The total project area is 433,954 square meters and there are 118 floors in this building. The underground parking lot can contain 2000 vehicles. On November 29th, 2008, the construction work began, and its top-out happened on August 3rd, 2013. In mid-2015, the Shanghai Tower will open to the public.
General information
Status
Type
Location
Coordinates
Construction started
Estimated completion
Cost
Owner
Architectural height
Top floor height
Technical details
Floor count
Floor area
Architect
• Design
• Architect of Record
Structural Engineer
MEP Engineer
Project Manager
Main Contractor
Other Consultant
• Cost
• Fire
• Landscape
• Life Safety
• Vertical Transportation
• Wind
Material Supplier
• Cladding
• Elevator
• Sealants
• Steel
Topped-out
Mixed-use
Lujiazui, Pudong, Shanghai
31.2355°N 121.501°E
November 29th, 2008
2015
US$2.4 billion
Shanghai Tower Construction and Development
632 m (2,073 ft)
556.7 m (1,826 ft)
128 (5 below ground)
380,000 square meters (4,090,300 sq ft) above grade
170 square meters (1,800 sq ft) below grade
Marshall Strabala and Jun Xia (Gensler)
Architectural Design & Research Institute of Tongji University (Group) Co., Ltd.; ECADI
Thornton Tomasetti
Cosentini
Shanghai Jianke Project Management Co.
Shanghai Construction Group
Rider Levett Bucknall
Rolf Jensen & Associates
SWA Group
Arup
Edgett Willams Consulting Group Inc.
RWDI
Beijing Jangho Curtain Wall Co., Ltd.; Wuhan Lingyun Building Decoration Engineering Co Ltd.; Yuanda
Mitsubishi Elevator and Escalator
Dow Corning Corporation
Bao Steel Group; Jiangsu Huning Steel Mechanism Co., Ltd.
