[58] Construction crews laid the final structural beam of the tower on 3 August 2013, thus topping out the tower as China's tallest, and the world's second-tallest, building. Filming in the middle of the world’s most populous city–not to mention getting on top of such a massive mega-structure–was no easy feat, but it was irresistible. Though the majority of the tower's energy will be provided by conventional power systems, 270 vertical-axis wind turbines located in the facade and near the top of the tower are capable of generating up to 350,000 kWh of supplementary electricity per year,[38][27] and are expected to provide 10% of the building's electrical needs. The 828-metre Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest tower in Dubai, UAE, is the inspiration behind the design of 632-meter Shanghai Tower, China’s tallest, and the world’s second tallest tower. At 2,073 feet, the Shanghai Tower rises above SOM's pagoda-like Jin Mao Tower (1,381 feet) and KPF's World Financial Center (1,615 feet) with its cutout top. [14][29][56] The opening was gradually introduced during the summer of 2016. Its 258-room hotel, located between the 84th and 110th floors, is to be operated by Jin Jiang International Hotels as the Shanghai Tower J-Hotel, and at the time of its completion it will be the highest hotel in the world. [31] When they were installed (2014), they were the world's fastest single-deck elevators (18 meters per second (40 mph)) and double-deck elevators (10 meters per second (22 mph)), respectively. The flowing spiraling form of the tower was generated from a rounded triangular plan. For the design of Shanghai Tower, many international architectural firms had proposed many different designs, these firms includes Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Kohn Pedersen Fox, Gensler, Foster + Partners and the local firm Shanghai Institute of Architectural Design. Dream Big takes an up-close look at Shanghai Tower’s stunning glass façade, which twists in a triangle through 120 degrees as it soars, an elegant means of battling one of the biggest problems all super-tall buildings face: their vulnerability to fierce gusts that can stress the structure and cause upper floors to take on a dizzying sway. feet tall, the Shanghai Tower boasts the tallest building in China and is the 2 nd tallest building in the world (MASS). [54], The principal architect of the project, Jun Xia, said: "With the topping out of Shanghai Tower, the Lujiazui trio will serve as a stunning representation of our past, our present, and China’s boundless future. The tenants of the tower include Alibaba, Intesa Sanpaolo and AllBright Law Offices. [7], The Shanghai Tower was designed by the American architectural firm Gensler, with Shanghainese architect Jun Xia leading the design team. [55] The tower's crown structure was completed in August 2014, and its façade was completed shortly after. The Tower opened in 2015 and features 127 stories that rise above the clouds in spiral form that is at once romantic and practical, shedding huge wind forces while resembling a dragon’s serpentine tail. Designed by the American architectural firm Gensler and created in conjunction with a consortium of Chinese companies and the New York-based structural engineering firm Thornton Tomasetti, it is also a certified LEED Platinum building due to its inventive sustainability features. Shanghai: The world's second tallest building, Shanghai Tower, will soon open in the Chinese financial capital with a twist a 120 degree twist, to … [38], In 2008, the site – previously a driving range[41] – was prepared for construction. [13] Gensler won an invited competition in 2008 for the $1.9 billion project, beating SOM, KPF, and Foster + Partners. The W Hotel is just one component within Kemper Development Company’s 1.5 million-square-foot, mixed-use Lincoln Square Expansion project in Bellevue’s Eastside community. Shanghai Tower rises to the sky like a tree, with a “trunk” made of a concrete core surrounded by steel super-columns, and “branches” to support mechanical and refuge floors at the base of each zone. Sydney, NSW. The precision engineering of the building’s twist was found to reduce wind forces by 24%, which in turn resulted in major costs savings. Designed by international design firm Gensler and owned by the Shanghai Municipal Government,[2] it is the tallest of the world's first triple-adjacent supertall buildings in Pudong, the other two being the Jin Mao Tower and the Shanghai World Financial Center. Working closely with Gensler's design and technical teams to create a highly efficient core, Edgett created an elevator system in which office floors are served via 4 sky lobbies each served by double-deck shuttle elevators. Mindtree Limited , 1 Fullerton Road #02-01 049213 Singapore. [18], Planning models for the Lujiazui financial district dating back to 1993 show plans for a close group of three supertall skyscrapers. Completion Date: 2017. The Shanghai Tower, the second tallest building in the world, features significant technological innovations, including a tapering asymmetrical form designed to reduce wind loads and a double curtain wall that creates an interstitial space for a series of garden atrium sky lobbies. 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