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Height is measured from the level of the lowest, significant, open-air, pedestrian entrance to the highest point of the building, irrespective of material or function of the highest element (i.e., including antennae, flagpoles, signage and other functional-technical equipment).
Height is measured from the level of the lowest, significant, open-air, pedestrian entrance to the architectural top of the building, including spires, but not including antennae, signage, flag poles or other functional-technical equipment. This measurement is the most widely utilized and is employed to define the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) rankings of the "World's Tallest Buildings."
Height is measured from the level of the lowest, significant, open-air, pedestrian entrance to the highest occupied floor within the building.
The number of floors above ground should include the ground floor level and be the number of main floors above ground, including any significant mezzanine floors and major mechanical plant floors. Mechanical mezzanines should not be included if they have a significantly smaller floor area than the major floors below. Similarly, mechanical penthouses or plant rooms protruding above the general roof area should not be counted. Note: CTBUH floor counts may differ from published accounts, as it is common in some regions of the world for certain floor levels not to be included (e.g., the level 4, 14, 24, etc. in Hong Kong).
The number of floors below ground should include all major floors located below the ground floor level.
Fortune Center
Pearl River New City B2-10 project, Yuexiu Financial Tower
Building
Completed
2015
office
composite
309.4 m / 1,015 ft
68
4
43
210,477 m² / 2,265,556 ft²
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Proposed
Construction Start
Completed
The Collaborative Architect is an additional organization that is brought in, usually at the request of either the client or the main design architect, to collaborate on the design of the building.
Other Consultant refers to other organizations which provided significant consultation services for a building project (e.g. wind consultants, environmental consultants, fire and life safety consultants, etc).
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The Collaborative Architect is an additional organization that is brought in, usually at the request of either the client or the main design architect, to collaborate on the design of the building.
Other Consultant refers to other organizations which provided significant consultation services for a building project (e.g. wind consultants, environmental consultants, fire and life safety consultants, etc).
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Located in Guangzhou’s Pearl River New City Development, Fortune Center is sited across the street from a large central park above a subterranean shopping mall which serves as the center piece of the city’s premiere central business district. The tower has a bowed form to provide a distinction between it and other office towers with a more rigid form and meets the ground with a public plaza rather than being perched upon a podium as is typical with tall buildings in China.
The tower footprint is rotated 30 degrees relative to the street network to minimize reflective glare on the tower’s southern exposure while maximizing views and creating a mirrored relationship to the Pearl River Tower, located across the park to the west and standing in at the same height. Fortune Center features a number of green design concepts including an on-site chiller plant creating ice in the evening hours and using the chilled water in the climate control system, reducing overall energy usage.
The Fortune Center was rises from a 4 story basement stretching across the site into a composite structure framed with a reinforced concreted core and a perimeter of large hallow steel columns. The corners feature large box columns framing the edges of a truss network which runs vertically along both of tower’s narrower ends. The column free office floorplates are then framed in steel as well and attach the outer perimeter of columns to the tower’s core. The entire exterior is then clad with a glass curtain wall façade.
The Fortune Center’s location alongside the center of the Pear River New City Development will ensure the tower remains a highly visible fixture on Guangzhou’s rapidly changing skyline.
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