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Facts
Official Name Shanghai Tower
Former / Other Name Shanghai Center
Type building
Status Under Construction
Country China
City Shanghai
Street Address / Map Lujiazui Finacial Center, Pudong New Area
Building Function hotel / office
Structural Material composite
Proposed 2008
Start of Construction 2009
Completion 2014
Figures
Height: Architectural 632.0 meter / 2073 feet
Height: Occupied 556.7 meter / 1826 feet
Height: To Tip 632.0 meter / 2073 feet
Height: Observatory 556.7 meter / 1826 feet
Floors Above Ground 121
Floors Below Ground 5
# of Elevators 106
Top Elevator Speed 18 m/s
Tower GFA 420,000 m² / 4,520,842 ft²
Development GFA 521,000 m² / 5,607,997 ft²
# of Hotel Rooms 320
# of Parking Spaces 1800
Companies Involved
Owner Shanghai Tower Construction & Development
Developer Shanghai Tower Construction & Development
Design Architect Gensler
Associate Architects Architectural Design & Research Intstitute of Tongji University (Group) Co., Ltd.;
ECADI;
2DEFINE Architecture
Structural Engineers Thornton Tomasetti;
Architectural Design & Research Intstitute of Tongji University (Group) Co., Ltd.
MEP Engineers Cosentini;
Architectural Design & Research Intstitute of Tongji University (Group) Co., Ltd.;
Parsons Brinckerhoff Consultants Private Limited
Main Contractor Shanghai Construction
Other Consultants Mitsubishi Elevator and Escalator;
RWDI;
Dow Corning Corporation
Videos
Interview: Arthur Gensler
A.Gensler (Gensler Architects), CTBUH Chicago Conference
Sustainable World Cities: Shanghai Looking Forward
M. St Pierre (Gensler), CTBUH Mumbai Conference
Shanghai Tower: Completing a Supertall Trio
A. Gensler (Gensler), CTBUH Chicago Conference

Technical Papers
Design of Flexible Hanging Curtain Wall Support Structures
Jiemin Ding, Jiupeng Li, Zhijun He & Yin Hu (Tongji Architectural Design), CTBUH Shanghai Congress
Shanghai Tower’s Versatile Energy Management System
Zhongli Chen & Lei Shi (ISA Architecture), CTBUH Shanghai Congress
Shanghai Tower: Re-Thinking the Vertical City
Jian Ping Gu (Shanghai Tower Construction & Development), CTBUH Shanghai Congress
Structural Design Challenges of Shanghai Tower
Yi Zhu, Dennis Poon, Steve Zuo & Guoyong Fu (Thornton Tomasetti), CTBUH Shanghai Congress
Mitsubishi Elevator Equipment in Shanghai Tower
Ikuo Nakazawa (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation), CTBUH Shanghai Congress
Spatially Suspending and Twisting Curtain Walls' Des
Bao Li Gao, Meng Gen, Shuguo Zhao, Yongjun Li & Hang Liu (Shenyeng Yuanda Aluminium Industry), CTBUH Shanghai Congress
The Parametric Design of Shanghai Tower's Form and Façade
Jun Xia & Michael Peng (Gensler), CTBUH Shanghai Congress
BIM Applications in the Shanghai Tower Construction
Qing Ge (Shanghai Tower Construction & Development), CTBUH Shanghai Congress
Key Technologioes in the Structure of Shanghai Tower
Jian Gong (Shanghai Construction Group), Hong Zhou (Shanghai No. 1 Construction), CTBUH Shanghai Congress
A Paradigm Shift in the 21st Century Skyscraper
Emily Merrill & Dr. Lee Gray (University of North Carolina at Charlotte), CTBUH Shanghai Congress
Supertall Building Pile-Raft Foundation Designs on Soft
Si Chao, Cui Yong, Jiang Wenhui & He Jianlong (Tongji Architectural Design), CTBUH Shanghai Congress
Case Study: Shanghai Tower
J. Xia (Gensler), D. Poon (Thornton Tomasetti), CTBUH Journal