SHANGHAI: Wheelock Square

[10025]

Name of project: Shanghai Wheelock Square 大上海會德豐廣場
Location: intersection, Nanjing Road West / Huasha Road, Puxi, Shanghai
Height: 298m
Number of storeys: 59
Developer: The Wharf (Holdings) Limited, Hong Kong
Construction status: foundation dredging has started
Year of completion: 2007
Designer: KPF (reportedly)

Renderings
1
http://img363.imageshack.us/img363/4166/shwheelocksquare27di.jpg
2
http://img487.imageshack.us/img487/8770/shwheelocksquaremodel27ua.jpg
3
http://img513.imageshack.us/img513/9591/shwheelocksquare8op.jpg

[Bahraini Spirit]

Looks cool plus has a nice name.

[MattSal]

Another great building for Shanghai. :okay:
Would look better in HK though.

[FM 2258]

It has an optical illusion that makes it look like it's spitting away when the sides are really vertical. Nice looking skyscraper. It needs to go up soon. :)

[chex]

nice tower!

[Dubai-Lover]

fantastic design
but looks a little bit lost among all these old towers in this area
would love to see it in pudong

[TICONLA1]

This is a fine example of a large, single tenant, corperate office tower. perfect for any major city. i would surely like to see a tower such as this go into the Grand ave. project here in Los Angeles, and speaking of optical illustions, 1.5 million sq.ft., in 58 floors, or 951'. well done, in my opinion, how i like office towers, not to fancy but present, this one covers all bases, having not seen this tower until last evening, i'm a little suprized as to how it has many of the characteristics of my personal designs for the World Trade Center reconstruction, towers 2, 3, and 4. (more on that later)

[Þróndeimr]

Very nice, reminds me a lot of Union Square Phase 7.

[Sonic from Padova]

great project!

[MikeHunt]

Shanghai is great!

[baqthier]

Looks like KLCC's Lot C! (to be constructed this year)

http://www.veritas.com.my/port_varc_office/comm_lotC1big.gif

[some_stupid_nut]

For some reason I think the name fits the building.

I think I like the one in KL more.

[superskyline]

I like it alot! Looks similar to Union Square Phase 7 in HK (which I like a lot) but with it's own special edge to it! Can't wait to see it
btw, when did contruction start... any photos??

[Xander]

Yeah, it does look like US7. Looks great though, when is construction planned?

[Tom_Green]

btw, when did contruction start... any photos??

This pic is from 10th January.


Interesting panorama of the JinganPark surroundings. The wheelock Square plot is the one on the left, just behind the tower at the centre on the other side of the elevated highway. See the others plots under construction at the other end of the park.
[url]http://image2.xitek.com/forum/200501/1521/152108/152108_1105466212.jpg


A closer view.
http://www2.xitek.com/forum/200501/1521/152108/152108_1105467100.jpg

[superskyline]

nice photos, thanks Tom_Green

[Muse]

The reason it's similar to Hong Kong's Union Square 7 is because the design architectural firm for US7 is Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates;
the same architects that have designed Wheelock Square.

For convenience, the 2 pics that Tom Green gave above that he didn't tag properly (apologies Tom).

The groundwork for Wheelock is behind the tallest tower in the middle where the elevated highway leads to...just visible:

http://image2.xitek.com/forum/200501/1521/152108/152108_1105466212.jpg

The closer view:

http://www2.xitek.com/forum/200501/1521/152108/152108_1105467100.jpg

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[ROYAL BLUE]

beautiful design

[Qatar4Ever]

Neat!

[TICONLA1]

Does anyone have any updates whatsoever on this bad boy..!!!!!!!!!!!

[Phobos]

It has a wonderful elegant design.

[XiaoBai]

Any specific updates on this project?

[HT]

Its almost 6 month now till last update!!

Is the projekt dead?

[Jose Luis]

I can't see the renders!! Someone should upload it into imageshack or something

[Joel que]

there's no picture!

[sharpie20]

yeah, i can't see any pictures

[chrishung]

Link doesn't work either. It seems that the pictures are gone.

[Mosaic]

Links don't work at all. Don't know why.

[10025]

I've edited the first post, and now you can see the renderings.
Sorry, no updates either.

[Mosaic]

The tower looks strong, modern and ambitious. Links work now.

[Muse]

Wheelock Square is the 2nd tallest scraper under construction in Shanghai presently. SWFC is the tallest u/c.


Pics by giallo (SSP) from 8 March ''06:

http://www.inclearimage.com/giallo/mar8wheelock2.jpg

http://www.inclearimage.com/giallo/mar8wheelock.jpg


...and from 16 July:

http://static.flickr.com/77/191904903_3e1619a5e5_o.jpg

[staff]

It's located at Jing An Su, right?

[Muse]

^^ Correct...

It's being constructed on a 12.675 sq m/41.575 sq ft plot on Yan’an Road opposite of the Equatorial Hotel in the Jing An Su district and will have a gross floor area of 114.075 sq m/374.165 sq ft.

Therefore @ being 59-levels, Wheelock Square Tower will have a total of 107,687 sq m/353,212 sq ft gross floor area for the tower.

[z0rg]

I find strange that such a tall tower without spire has only 59 floors.

[Muse]

I find strange that such a tall tower without spire has only 59 floors.Not necessarily strange for a few reasons.

First of all, its structural height is 298m/977ft but the height to roof below the glass wedged crown is 290m/951ft. Also it depends how tall the office floors are from floor to ceiling (the avarage office floor can range from 4m to 4.5m). The floorplates between the different office levels may also be quite thick.

If there are 1 or 2 plant/maintenance levels in the body of the tower they may take up to 2-levels each. Another factor could possibly be how tall the lobby is @ the bottom of the tower.

Anyway, 59 storeys it is!

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[Mosaic]

How tall is it for this tower??

[Muse]

How tall is it for this tower??Read my post above mate.

[randolphan]

wow, it got a cool ICC style... great building!

[spicytimothy]

another building funded by a Hong Kong company... I really do believe Hong Kong built Shanghai.

[ningxiard]

It's located at Jing An Su, right?

It's Jing An Si, not Jing An Su. Si means temple. If you look at the update picture of July 16th, you can see Jing An Si at the right side of the picture. This whole area is called Jing An Si because of this sort of landmark temple. Jing An Si area is one of the business, entertainment and shopping centers of Shanghai, so inevitably you will see lots of highrise buildings over there.

When people think of Shanghai, they always think of Lujiazui in Pudong, and think that's everything of Shanghai's skyline. Anyone who ever visit Shanghai and go around the city will know how wrong that idea is. Lujiazui is mostly just a pompous and artificial showing-off in my eyes, and it's also so tiny! It has so little to do with the real Shanghai, both in terms of culture, landscape and architecture. Shanghai has so much more to offer than that ridiculous-looking Lujiazui skyline.

[drunkenmunkey888]

When people think of Shanghai, they always think of Lujiazui in Pudong, and think that's everything of Shanghai's skyline. Anyone who ever visit Shanghai and go around the city will know how wrong that idea is. Lujiazui is mostly just a pompous and artificial showing-off in my eyes, and it's also so tiny! It has so little to do with the real Shanghai, both in terms of culture, landscape and architecture. Shanghai has so much more to offer than that ridiculous-looking Lujiazui skyline.

i totally agree with you. Lujiazui is like Dubai, just a place for ppl to show off how much money they have in the form of artificial buildings. Puxi is soooo much denser and better than Lujiazui. Puxi side of Shanghai is a legit functional city that grew naturally. Aside from being economically more vibrant, having better infrastructure, having a greater population, being commercially more vibrant, etc., Puxi's skyline is about a million times bigger than Pudong. To be honest, i really hate pudong

[ZZ-II]

I've never saw a render until now. This tower looks Pretty nice a bit boxy but modern.

[Mosaic]

Read my post above mate.
oops!!! sorry, mate, I just skipped it. :)

[european]

Wow amazing tower, skyline in the making.

[SkyLerm]

It's so elegant...

[10025]

Update by bluesnow on 8 Aug. 2006, xitek.com
http://s07.picshome.com/04b/84787_1155030722.jpg

[flybird]

more for it

http://www.skyscrapers.cn/forum/attachments/20066191565118_aaZKplvPBSO5.jpg

[staff]

It's Jing An Si, not Jing An Su. Si means temple. If you look at the update picture of July 16th, you can see Jing An Si at the right side of the picture. This whole area is called Jing An Si because of this sort of landmark temple. Jing An Si area is one of the business, entertainment and shopping centers of Shanghai, so inevitably you will see lots of highrise buildings over there.
Hehe, of course I mean Jing An Si!
I'm actually opting for an appartment there (or somewhere in Xu Jia Hui).

[DarkFenX]

I think it needs to be taller because it looks a little fat. Or it just maybe me wanting to see another tower that will rival Jin Mao and the SWFC in height.

[european]

Thanks for the update mate.

[Mosaic]

I love the design, it looks so neat yet modern and glassy.

[swerveut]

Very nice architecture!

An elegant addition for Shanghai.

[CULWULLA]

how is this going? its going to be 298m so i might add to world tall diagrams.
anyone seen any recent construction updates?>

[ssfan]

Setp 19, from giallo@skyscraperpage.com
http://www.inclearimage.com/giallo/sept19wheelock.jpg
Aug 18, also from giallo@skyscraperpage.com
http://www.inclearimage.com/giallo/aug18wheelock.jpg
http://www.inclearimage.com/giallo/aug18wheelock2.jpg
http://www.inclearimage.com/giallo/aug18wheelock3.jpg

[DamienK]

KPF became famous initially for its award winning post modern designs, but they do an incredible job with creating unique geometric structures - Plaza 66, JR Central Towers, SWFC, Santo Plaza in Miami, to name a few. Wheelock Square is one of them.

[CULWULLA]

thanks ssfan. lots of bamb00 there.
cheers

[Mosaic]

Foundation is underway???

[xiaoluis]

its going to be wonderful

[duskdawn]

I like it.