The tallest building in China
At 480 meters, Shanghai World Financial Center is the China’s tallest and the third-tallest in the world. It is a mixed use skyscraper which consists of offices, hotels, conference rooms, observation decks, and shopping malls on the ground floors. Located in Pudong, Shanghai, China, the skyscraper was designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox.
The first two floors are commercial with the third to fifth floors for conference centers. The 7th to 77th floors are house offices. On the 79th to 93rd floors is located the Park Hyatt Shanghai Hotel with 174 rooms and suites (which is the second highest hotel in the world), and the 94th to 100th floors are designed to be an observatory for sightseeing. To protect the building from fierce winds, the Shanghai World Financial Center holds two tuned mass dampers below its observation floors to reduce the building’s sway during windstorms and earthquakes.
The observatory on the 100th floor at 474 meters above ground is the tallest of its kind in the world. Opened with a view from 3 levels – its lowest observation deck is 423 m, on the 94th floor, the second is 439 m high, on the 97th floor and the highest view is at 474 m above ground level on the 100th floor. On 14 September 2007 the skyscraper was topped out at 492.0 meters and became the second tallest building in the world. The 101-story has been lauded for its design and was named by architects as the best skyscraper completed in 2008.
