Jinzuo Plaza
Dalian, China

HEIGHT: 216m/708 feet
FLOORS: 55 floors
COMPLETION: 2000
ARCHITECT: ?

Work on this building, which is also known as Golden Plaza, started in 1995
and should have been completed in 2000. But, unfortunately, the builders went out of money
and the building has only been finished from the outside for about 90%.
Work on the inside hasn't even started. The building is one of eight buildings
in the downtown area that have been topped out and have been completed on the outside
for 90-100%, but haven't been completed on the inside and thus are not (yet) in use.

http://mywebpage.netscape.com/rotpics02/jinzuo02.jpeg

http://photo.starblvd.net/RateOurTalls/1-1-2-1078347945?m=1&pg=0&ro=0&co=1

http://mywebpage.netscape.com/rotpics02/jinzuo01.jpeg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v427/rotpics03/dalian08.jpg

Interesting top. 6/10

5/10

Intresting top but it looks so bad!
5.5/10

4.5 this one is just flat-out ugly

6/10

I actually find the top exotic..very Eastern looking. But that base just ruins it all by being too big. It kinda cancels out the soaring effect of the tower.

interesting, 7

4.5/10 - hoo boy, what a mess....

I like the top, which is a really unique idea, but it belongs on an entirely different building.

The tower is squat and bulky, even though the indentation helps a little, and the base is just flat out dull, almost ugly - it also looks like it hasn't been maintained. And it doesn't go with the shalt at all. In fact, it looks like the architects took parts of 3 different buildings and slapped them together, just to see what would happen - Sort of like those picture books with pages in three parts that allow you you to combine parts of different faces or buildings...
Simply NO harmony in this contraption at all! >(

7.5

Nice chinese look to it.

maybe they shouldn't finish this building, but just destroy it, and try again.

3.0 or less

I don't like this one, 5.5/10

4

bad PRC look to it.

Originally posted by Roch5220

4

bad PRC look to it.

LOL, I agree !

unique...

maybe TOO unique

6/10

This building maes me laugh. :D Ok I give it 6/10 for the entertainment value. ;)

7

the lower part is a bit too wide for me

Nice cladding. 7!

Just don't like the top
7/10

An-morphus building, don't like it.....

4/10

7.5/10

interesting, I like it.

Wish some one had hidden the base from me or this thing might have got a average score
4/10

5/10

looks like a fat lady

Yeah, the base doesn't relate to the rest of the building at all. The top doesn't either - and what are those tiers made out of? They look like rusted iron. The bands of windows give it a more dignified look. 6.5/10

pretty unique design... sux that this ain't 100% completed...

the roof's way too makeshift-looking though...

7.5

Too fat at the bottom, too thin under the top and an ugly top. 3.5 and that's only for the facade which looks ok.

Proportions are all wrong. The top is grotesque. 5/10

Unique topp, and interesting, but a bit boring facade. 7/10

nice but not fantastic 6/10

Massive building 7.0

5/10 - I don't like the top...

6/10

Three words - UGLY AS HELL

3.0

Bulky, unattractive, totally lacking in grace and style.

A bit of a mess.

4.5

Wow, I think it's an incredible building and I like it a lot but the top is just ok. 8/10

4/10

4/10

http://files.photojerk.com/jingtian48/00BA983D.jfif

7/10.

I don't like this one, 4/10

Too groundbreaking architecturally for my tastes. I give it a 7/10.

Too oriental for my taste, 6

4/10

9.

7/10

A tower very original, the top, the diferent bodys, but little ugly 6/10

Just UGLY, 3/10

interesting 8/10

OMG, what a mess :no: 5/10

ugly 6/10

no bad 6,5/10

incredible building

9,5/10

6/10

4,5/10

6/10

Proportions are all wrong. The top is grotesque. 5.5/10

6/10

Yeah the base really doesn't fit the rest of the building. 5/10

Jesus... mind boggling... 4.5/10 for origionality.

6.5/10.

5/10 Unproportional and strange

ahhh.. a 7.

4/10 The base is way too big. the building doesn't look anywhere near its height. just some unproportionate squat thing. if it ever does get finished, it will be forgotten anyways. not memorable

7/10

strange combination but not that ugly 5.5/10

Ugly Top, 8/10

7.5/10

1/10

The top is a joke. The groove is a joke. The middle section is a joke. And the entrance looks like that of a parking garage. Poor texture and choice of color.

Yet another example of the gross incompetence of China's architects.

Yikes...Someone went a little bit overboard with the top, ti's like from one of thsoe vacations in tahiti

3/10

i really dont like it

I usually like these pagoda tops but that is garish. It doesn't even match the building as if someone dropped it there by accident......In addition, looks like the top could blow away or something. 3/10

5.5/10

7/10. Interesting!!

9/10

6/10.

Historical roof doesn't match up with the rest of the tower. 7

6/10

ugly!
3/10

6/10

8.5 quite unique.

8.5/10 Very unique top.

6/10

not bad. 8/10

6/10

I don't like the top...and it looks fat too.

5/10.

1 / 10

rubbish.

or fancy rubbish if that would make the brainless, uneducated Chinese "architect" feel better.

1/10

It's a ridiculously immature design. A waste of building materials and money.

unique? boring? ugly? :D 5/10

4/10

5/10

4/10

6/10

8/10

1/10

6/10

strange...5,5/10

2/10

5/10.

3/10 :down:

interesting design 6.5/10

I've always found this building interesting in the sense it's quite unique and readily identifiable. If you omit the pagoda-crown, it would turn out as a bit plain, but still a very much ok-looking building. As for the crown, it could have worked with a more appropriate googie design, and perhaps with a circular section instead of square.
Sadly, it has been idling unfinished since 2000, so I suppose there's little chance it ever gets completed.
I'll think of it as the Beast, like in Beauty and the Beast ;-)
6.5/10

bizzare 4.5/10

5/10

yikes!:ohno:

7.5

4/10

7/10

Nice!!

9/10

8/10

4.5/10

I don't believe that I can see it. Who built it?! Then again this roof!

5/10

3.

5.5/10

3/10

4/10

6.5

Very bad IMO. 4/10

nothing for me... 5/10

5/10

omg for its innovation it deserves a 10/10 O.O

But the it looks to fat :/

so... 9/10

8/10

I dont like the shape...

4.0/10

8. Good building. Regards.

8.5/10

6/10

7/10

5.5

ugly. sorry.
5/10

5.5/10

voted 7/10

5/10

What a strange combination. I seriously wonder what the architects where thinking. 2.5/10

7/10

its a funny building.
rate: 6.0 + 0.5(for making me laugh)=6.5

8.5/10

7/10

6.5/10

6.5/10

10/10

6/10

4/10

Ugly, stubby and unappealing.

7/10

5.5/10 top is interesting, but the bottom, is not good

I dont like it.....3/10

6/10

7/10

7/10

8/10

7/10

5.5/10. Interesting top, but quite tacky.

Bad 3/10

strange looking 5/10