CTBUH Gold Member

Shanghai Institute of Architectural Design & Research (Co., Ltd.)

About

Member Since: 2010

Member Offices: Shanghai

Website: http://www.siadr.com.cn/

The Shanghai Institute of Architectural Design Co., Ltd. (ISA Architecture) was founded in 1953. Formerly SIADR, it is a leading international architectural, construction design, urban planning and engineering institute.

ISA is also committed to green building and sustainable urban development. They adhere to international and local long-term integration of architectural harmony with the environment.

They believe that appearance and function through a combination of design, enthusiasm, honesty and trustworthiness, forge innovative and quality results. To ISA, social responsibility, customer value, and the principle of advanced staff development continue make them a leader in their field.

Fields of Expertise

Architecture; Structural Engineering; Urban Design

Buildings

Please note that all heights shown in italics/red are estimated heights. These have been calculated based on known floor counts for the building, then extrapolated through analyzing typically hundreds of buildings of the same function on this database that do have confirmed heights. The user should be aware that non-standard building features, such as significant spires or raised entrances / podiums, may affect the accuracy of these estimations.

RANK
Name
Height
1 Jin Mao Tower

421 m / 1,380 ft
3 Ningbo Center Tower 1

409 m / 1,342 ft
4 Xiamen Cross Strait Financial Centre

344 m / 1,128 ft
6 Guangxi Financial Investment Center

330 m / 1,083 ft
7 Wenzhou Trade Center

322 m / 1,056 ft
8 Lumina Shanghai

285 m / 935 ft
9 Tomorrow Square

285 m / 934 ft
10 Shanghai SK Group Tower

275 m / 902 ft
11 One Lujiazui

269 m / 883 ft
12 Changzhou Modern Media Center

265 m / 870 ft

Building Completions Timeline

Videos

03 November 2016

Innovations in Building Performance and Resiliency: Pin-Fuse Seismic Systems

Throughout history, it has been proven time and again that the simplest innovations can often offer the greatest and widest ranging impact. This is certainly...

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Research

22 December 2023

Remembering Charles H. Thornton, 2012 Fazlur Khan Lifetime Achievement Awardee

This edition of Talking Tall is an interview from the CTBUH archives. The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat would like to remember Charles...

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Global News

04 January 2022

First Phase of Plant-Covered Development Opens in Shanghai

The first section of the plant-covered 1000 Trees development, designed by British designer Thomas Heatherwick's studio, has officially opened in Shanghai, China. The mixed-use development features...

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Associated companies

ISA Architecture

Please note that all heights shown in italics/red are estimated heights. These have been calculated based on known floor counts for the building, then extrapolated through analyzing typically hundreds of buildings of the same function on this database that do have confirmed heights. The user should be aware that non-standard building features, such as significant spires or raised entrances / podiums, may affect the accuracy of these estimations.

RANK
Name
Height
1 Jin Mao Tower

421 m / 1,380 ft
2 Nanjing Olympic Suning Tower

420 m / 1,377 ft
3 Ningbo Center Tower 1

409 m / 1,342 ft
4 Xiamen Cross Strait Financial Centre

344 m / 1,128 ft
5 Guangxi Financial Investment Center

330 m / 1,083 ft
6 Guangxi Financial Investment Center

330 m / 1,083 ft
7 Wenzhou Trade Center

322 m / 1,056 ft
8 Lumina Shanghai

285 m / 935 ft
9 Tomorrow Square

285 m / 934 ft
10 Shanghai SK Group Tower

275 m / 902 ft
11 One Lujiazui

269 m / 883 ft
12 Changzhou Modern Media Center

265 m / 870 ft
13 Raffles City The Bund East Tower

263 m / 863 ft
13 Raffles City the Bund West Tower

263 m / 863 ft
15 Ningbo Global Shipping Plaza

262 m / 861 ft
16 Jing An Kerry Centre Tower 2

260 m / 853 ft
17 The Fifth Center Technology and Innovation Tower

260 m / 853 ft
18 Zhe Jiang Fortune Financial Center - Tower 1

258 m / 846 ft
19 Cloud Nine

238 m / 781 ft
20 CITIC Plaza

228 m / 748 ft
21 Bank of China Tower

226 m / 742 ft
22 C&D International Tower

219 m / 720 ft
23 Shangri-La Hotel

217 m / 712 ft
24 Shanghai Financial Exchange Plaza Tower 1

215 m / 705 ft
25 Pudong International Information Port

211 m / 692 ft
26 Taiping Financial Tower

208 m / 682 ft
27 Binjiang Business District Tower 1

202 m / 663 ft
28 Jing An Kerry Centre Tower 3

198 m / 649 ft
29 Shanghai Financial Exchange Plaza Tower 2

195 m / 640 ft
30 Zhe Jiang Fortune Financial Center - Tower 2

188 m / 617 ft
31 Shanghai Industrial Center Tower 1

180 m / 591 ft
32 Oriental Fisherman's Wharf Tower

161 m / 527 ft
33 Binjiang Business District Tower 2

160 m / 525 ft
34 Shanghai Financial Exchange Plaza Tower 3

152 m / 499 ft
35 Baosteel Shanghai Headquarters

120 m / 392 ft
36 Shanghai Mangoohub Building A

100 m / 328 ft
37 Land Rover Regional Offices Shanghai East Tower

100 m / 328 ft
37 Land Rover Regional Offices Shanghai West Tower

100 m / 328 ft
39 1000 Trees Phase 2

100 m / 328 ft
40 The Fifth Center Incubation Building 1

100 m / 328 ft
40 The Fifth Center Incubation Building 2

100 m / 328 ft
42 Xiamen Suiwa Tower

100 m / 327 ft
43 Qiantan Enterprise World Phase II Tower A

99 m / 325 ft
43 Qiantan Enterprise World Phase II Tower B

99 m / 325 ft
45 Shanghai Mangoohub Building B

62 m / 203 ft
46 1000 Trees Phase 1

60 m / 197 ft
47 United Family Medical Research Center

60 m / 197 ft
48 Mango Box

31 m

102 ft

Please note that this height is estimated, based on a floor count of 7 floors. The estimation has been arrived at by analyzing 7,198 other buildings of the same Office function on this database that do have confirmed heights. The user should be aware that non-standard features, such as significant spires or raised entrances / podiums, may affect the accuracy of this estimation.
49 Binjiang Business District Tower 3

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49 Binjiang Business District Tower 4

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51 Shanghai Industrial Center Tower 2

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Statistics

Average Building Age*

12 Years

Most Common Function*

Office (66%)

Most Common Material*

Composite (63%)

* Based on 150 m+ buildings currently in the database

Based on 29 buildings over 150 m height with a function
 
Based on 27 buildings over 150 m height with a material
 

Building Completions Timeline

Building Map

Construction Time Chart

NOTE: Construction start time is not available for all buildings. The average construction time is only displayed if there is three or more buildings with construction start and complete data in that year.

Videos

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03 November 2016

Innovations in Building Performance and Resiliency: Pin-Fuse Seismic Systems

Throughout history, it has been proven time and again that the simplest innovations can often offer the greatest and widest ranging impact. This is certainly...

19 October 2016

CTF Guangzhou - Efficiency in Mixed-Use Supertall

Wednesday, October 19, 2016. Gaungzhou, China. Florence Chan of Kohn Pedersen Fox presents at the 2016 China Conference Plenary 4: "Guangzhou Developments" Since the reformation...

18 September 2014

Urban Density and the Porous High Rise: The Integration of the Tall Building in the City

September 18, 2014. Shanghai, China. James von Klemperer from Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates PC presents at the 2014 Shanghai Conference closing plenary on "Urban Density...

18 September 2014

Shanghai International Financial Center: Future City Vision

JAHN’s Archi-Neering –integrated design approach- is broadly displayed in the future Shanghai International Financial center, in Pudong, which consist of 3 towers physically connected by...

17 September 2014

Sustainable Vertical Urban Agglomeration

This presentation, with the project case designed by Institute of Shanghai Architectural Design & Research (Co. Ltd.), from the agglomerate character of the development of...

17 September 2014

2014 Shanghai International Conference - Session 04 - Q & A

2014 Shanghai International Conference Session 04 Questions & Answers session with speakers Bin Niu, ECADI, Enfang Liu, ISA Architecture, and Yiru Huang, Tongji University.

17 September 2014

Interview: Enfang Liu

Enfang Liu of ISA Architecture is interviewed by Chris Bentley during the 2014 CTBUH Shanghai Conference at the Jin Mao Tower.

16 September 2014

The Evolution of Building Evacuation Design in China

As a result of the events of September 11th and other natural and man-made disasters, building owners, designers and fire officials have become increasingly aware...

16 September 2014

Research on Wind-Induced Vibration of the Steel Tower on High- Rise Buildings

An analysis on dynamic characteristics and wind-induced response of a high-rise building with a steel tower on the roof was conducted by ANSYS. It shows...

16 September 2014

2014 Shanghai International Conference - Technical Workshop 08 - Q & A

2014 Shanghai International Conference Technical Workshop 08 Questions & Answers session with speakers Xiangdong Du, RWDI; Yaming Li, ISA Architecture; Kevin Peddie, Windtech Consultants; Peter...

Research

22 December 2023

Remembering Charles H. Thornton, 2012 Fazlur Khan Lifetime Achievement Awardee

Charles Thornton & Richard Tomasetti

This edition of Talking Tall is an interview from the CTBUH archives. The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat would like to remember Charles...

16 May 2023

The Economics of Record-Breaking Height

Jason Barr & Peter A. Weismantle

This paper reviews the development history of record-breaking skyscrapers to better understand their economics. Given how tall they are, the supposed reason for their construction...

22 August 2022

The World’s Highest Pools: A Deep Dive

S. Isaac Work & Shawn Ursini, Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat

Tall building design has diversified and adapted to accommodate increased demand for distinctive amenities at a range of heights. Swimming pools are a classic feature...

03 January 2022

Interactive Study on Tall Buildings in 2021: A State of Current Construction

CTBUH Research

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat has released its annual report, CTBUH Year in Review: Tall Trends of 2021, part of the Tall...

01 August 2020

Skybridges: State of the Art

Antony Wood, Peng Du & Daniel Safarik, CTBUH

For more than a century, architects and urban visionaries have foretold of three-dimensional cities, with tall buildings linked by skybridges forming a new kind of...

12 December 2019

Interactive Study on Year in Review: Tall Trends of 2019

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...

28 October 2019

Fifty Years of Fire Safety In Supertall Buildings

Peter Weismantle, AS+GG; James Antell, Telgian Engineering & Consulting

As international design teams participated in the development of high-rise structures around the world, many of the concepts of fire-safe design first introduced in the...

29 July 2019

Highest Special-Purpose Spaces

Since humans first began constructing tall buildings, history has been cluttered with claims of all manner of “highest” records. In this study, we examine those...

12 December 2018

Year in Review: Tall Trends of 2018

CTBUH Research

The astronomical growth in tall building construction observed over the past decade continued in 2018, though the total number of completed buildings of 200 meters’...

Global News

04 January 2022

First Phase of Plant-Covered Development Opens in Shanghai

The first section of the plant-covered 1000 Trees development, designed by British designer Thomas Heatherwick's studio, has officially opened in Shanghai, China. The mixed-use development features...

02 June 2021

Luxury Hotel Coming to Ningbo

A new Ritz-Carlton is expected to open in Ningbo in 2025. The hotel is slated to occupy the 62nd to 80th floors of the 409-meter-tall...

CTBUH Initiatives Involving Shanghai Institute of Architectural Design & Research

CTBUH Shanghai Young Professionals Committee Talks Competitions

17 November 2017

CTBUH China and Shanghai Young Professionals Committee (YPC) co-hosted a symposium on “Gains and Losses in Tall Building Design Competitions.”

CTBUH Shanghai YPC Holds Inaugural Meeting

03 August 2017

The CTBUH Shanghai Young Professionals Committee (YPC) held its first board meeting at the Shanghai office of Gensler.

Top Company Rankings: The World’s 100 Tallest Buildings

13 October 2016

The Council is pleased to announce the Top Company Rankings for numerous disciplines as derived from the list of projects appearing in 100 of the World’s Tallest Buildings.

Tomorrow Square Technical Tour Report

19 September 2014

Delegates toured the 37th floor of Tomorrow Square, which takes advantage of the building’s 45-degree plan shift by offering views in at least eight directions.

Wind Engineering Workshop, Shanghai 2014

16 September 2014

Design adaptation in tall buildings was a main theme in the Technical Workshop, "Wind Engineering," at the Shanghai 2014 Conference.

CTBUH 2014 Shanghai Conference Gold Sponsor

16–19 September 2014

The survival of humanity relies on a radical repositioning of our cities to develop them beyond a collection of disparate icons, towards a vision of a Sustainable Vertical Urbanism.