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Height: Occupied
347.3 m / 1,139 ft Height: To Tip
354.5 m / 1,163 ft
Height: Architectural
354.5 m / 1,163 ft
Raffles City Chongqing T4N Outline
Floors Above Ground
79
Floors Below Ground
3
Development GFA
1,134,260 m² / 12,209,073 ft²
# of Parking Spaces
3,300

Facts

Official Name Raffles City Chongqing T4N
Name of Complex Raffles City Chongqing
Other Names Chongqing Chaotiamen Tower 2
Structure Type Building
Status Completed
Country China
City Chongqing
Street Address & Map No.18, Xinyi Street, Yuzhong District
Building Function hotel / office / retail
Structural Material composite
  • Core: Reinforced Concrete
  • Columns: Concrete Encased Steel
  • Floor Spanning: Reinforced Concrete
Energy Label LEED Gold BD+C: Core and Shell
Proposed 2011
Construction Start 2015
Completion 2019
Official Website Chongqing Raffles City

Companies Involved

Owner/Developer CapitaLand Limited
Architect
• Design Safdie Architects
• Architect of Record Chongqing Architecture and Design Institute; P & T Group
Structural Engineer
• Design Arup
• Engineer of Record Chongqing Architecture and Design Institute
MEP Engineer
• Design WSP
• Engineer of Record P & T Group
Main Contractor China Construction Eighth Engineering Division; China Construction Third Engineering Bureau Co., Ltd.
Other Consultant
• Cost Rider Levett Bucknall
• Quantity Surveyor Rider Levett Bucknall
• Wind RWDI
Material Supplier
• Cladding Jangho Group Co., Ltd.
• Crane Favelle Favco Group; Favelle Favco Group
• Elevator KONE
• Paint/Coating Jotun

CTBUH Initiatives

CTBUH Study Examines Tallest Buildings with Dampers
22 Aug 2018 – CTBUH Research

CTBUH Releases Year in Review: Tall Trends of 2019
12 Dec 2019 – CTBUH Journal Paper Report

Videos

Dense Urbanism: The High-Rise Tower as a Building Block for the Public Realm
26 Oct 2015 – Moshe Safdie, Safdie Architects

Interview: Moshe Safdie
26 Oct 2015 – Moshe Safdie, Safdie Architects

Research Papers

Year in Review: Tall Trends of 2019
12 Dec 2019 – CTBUH Journal 2019 Issue IV

Multi-Dimensional Hybrid Design and Construction of Skyscraper Cluster
Sep 2017 – International Journal of High-Rise Buildings Volume 6 Number 3

Frontiers in High-Rise Outrigger Design
8 Aug 2017 – CTBUH Journal, 2017 Issue III

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Year in Review: Tall Trends of 2019
12 Dec 2019 – CTBUH Journal 2019 Issue IV; CTBUH Research
The year 2019 was remarkable for the tall building industry, with 26 supertall buildings (300 meters or taller) completed, the most in any year. This is the second…
Multi-Dimensional Hybrid Design and Construction of Skyscraper Cluster
Sep 2017 – International Journal of High-Rise Buildings Volume 6 Number 3; Aaron J. Wang, CapitaLand China Corporate
Designed by star architect of Moshes Safdie, Raffles City Chongqing includes a total of 6 mega high-rise towers 250 to 380m tall, a sky conservatory, a 5-storey high…
Frontiers in High-Rise Outrigger Design
8 Aug 2017 – CTBUH Journal, 2017 Issue III; Hi sun Choi & Leonard M. Joseph, Thornton Tomasetti; SawTeen See, Leslie E. Robertson Associates; Rupa Garai, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP
In 2012, CTBUH published the first Outrigger Design for High-Rise Buildings Technical Guide. In 2016, the CTBUH Outrigger Working Group felt it would be beneficial to…
Raffles City Chongqing Conservatory: Studies For a New Bridging Building Type
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One of the outgrowths of dense vertical urbanism is the challenge of interconnecting tall buildings at multiple levels in the sky. In order to have the super-connected…
Wind Induced Structure Responses Study on RCCQ Project
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The Raffles City Chongqing project is one of the largest developments in the world. Located between Chao Tian Men Square and Jiefangbei in Yuzhong District, Chongqing…
Evolution of Seismic Engineering and Design of Ultra Tall Buildings in China Innovations and Sustainability
Sep 2016 – International Journal of High-Rise Buildings Volume 5 Number 3; Aaron J. Wang, CapitaLand Management
With the booming of construction and property industries in China, the demand for high-rises and mega-scale buildings with more integrated building functions, open- and…
The Evolution of Outrigger System in Tall Buildings
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The structural efficiency of tall buildings heavily depends on the lateral stiffness and resistance capacity. Among those structural systems for tall buildings, outrigger…

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