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Shanghai World Financial Center

General Information:
Height: 491.9m
Floors: 101
Year (foundation start): August 27, 1997
Year (start): February 13, 2003
Year (end): 2008
GFA: 377,300 m²
Elevators: 31
Escalators: 33
Costs at completion: $850,000,000
Location: Pudong/Lujiazui, Shanghai, China

Two architect firms is involved in the project, Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates and East China Architectural Design & Research Institute Co. Ltd. The
foundation stone was laid on August 27, 1997. In the late 1990s the Japanese Mori Building Corporation (the developer of SWFC) had a fund shortage
caused by the Asian financial crisis, which halted the project after the foundations were completed. Construction finally resumed on February 13th,
2003.

The original plann was a 460m, 94 story tall building, and it was supose to be completed in 2001, and become the world tallest building two years before
the completion of Taipei 101. But the design was changed in 2003 to a 491.9m and 101 stories tall building with a 50m wide and tall rectangular opening
on the top of the building. Mori Building Corporation actually proposed to raise the building up to 510m so it could surpass Taipei 101's 508m as the
world's No. 1 skyscraper, but this was declined by local authorities in Shanghai saying the city has a limit to building heights and an overall consideration
of the skylines on both sides of the Huangpu River. The design of the opening near the top of the tower was changed in mid-October, 2005; from a
circular to a rectangular opening. Architect and developer claim that it is cheaper and easier to implement the new design.

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Previous Shanghai World Financial Center threads:

> Link to Shanghai World Financial Center (Part 10)
Older threads > (Part 9) (Part 8) (Part 7) (Part 6) (Part 5) (Part 4) (Part 3) (Part 2) (Part 1)
 
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#1,322 ·
Here in the US, it can be more like 5 guys :lol:

If it's me it looks more like ONE guy, just look at my photo in the avatar.

Good one Hollie, lotsa food in America. Just go to Denny's on Sunday morning and see the lard plunked on their chairs.
 
#1,328 ·
That's an interesting question, how will they build the bridge with the cranes in this position. Are they going to build the bridge around the cranes, or will the they replace them somehow to side? It will definitely be interesting to see it getting build by the day, in other words thanks everybody for the updates.
 
#1,331 ·
I think they will build the lateral columns, then attach some smaller cranes externally to those columns (one on each side), remove the 2 central big cranes and then finish the last horizontal bridge on the top.

Doesn't it make sense?
donno what you are saying ZZ-II version is more realistic ..the external cranes version you mean like in the case of Rose Tower (333m) in Dubai ?? it had a last crane on it's side for the finishing toches
 
#1,335 ·
donno what you are saying ZZ-II version is more realistic ..the external cranes version you mean like in the case of Rose Tower (333m) in Dubai ?? it had a last crane on it's side for the finishing toches

The crane on the side of Rose Tower was not installed at the end, it was there during the entire construction progress and climbed up with the tower progressing.
 
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