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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
Energy Label LEED Gold
Proposed 2008
Start of Construction 2009
Completion 2014
Figures
Height: Architectural 632.0 meter / 2073 feet
Height: Occupied 561.3 meter / 1841 feet
Height: To Tip 632.0 meter / 2073 feet
Height: Observatory 561.3 meter / 1841 feet
Floors Above Ground 128
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/Developer Shanghai Tower Construction & Development
Architects
Design Gensler
Architect of Record 2DEFINE Architecture; Architectural Design & Research Intstitute of Tongji University (Group) Co., Ltd.; ECADI
Structural Engineers Thornton Tomasetti; Architectural Design & Research Intstitute of Tongji University (Group) Co., Ltd.
MEP Engineers Architectural Design & Research Intstitute of Tongji University (Group) Co., Ltd.; Cosentini; Parsons Brinckerhoff Consultants Private Limited
Main Contractor Shanghai Construction
Other Consultants
• Wind RWDI
• (Not Specified) Mitsubishi Elevator and Escalator
Material Supplier
• Sealants 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
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
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
Case Study: Shanghai Tower
J. Xia (Gensler), D. Poon (Thornton Tomasetti), CTBUH Journal