The Shanghai World Financial
Center (SWFC; Chinese: 上海环球金融中心) is a super
tall skyscraper located in the Pudong district of Shanghai, China. It was
designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox and developed by the Mori Building Company, with
Leslie E. Robertson Associates as its structural engineer and China State
Construction Engineering Corp and Shanghai Construction (Group) General Co. as
its main contractor.
It is a mixed-use skyscraper,
consisting of offices, hotels, conference rooms, observation decks, and
ground-floor shopping malls. Park Hyatt Shanghai is the tower's hotel
component, comprising 174 rooms and suites. It occupied the 79th to the 93rd
floors, surpassing the Grand Hyatt Shanghai on the 53rd to 87th floors of the
neighboring Jin Mao Tower .
It is the second-highest hotel in the world after The Ritz-Carlton, Hong Kong , which occupies floors 102 to 118 of the
International Commerce Centre.
On 14 September 2007, the
skyscraper was topped out at 492.0 meters (1,614.2
ft ), making it, at the time, the second-tallest building in the
world and the tallest structure in Mainland China . It also had the highest
occupied floor and the highest height to roof, two categories used to determine
the title of "world’s tallest building". The SWFC opened on 28 August
2008, with its observation deck opening on 30 August. This observation deck,
the world's tallest at the time of its completion, offers views from 474 m (1,555 ft ) above ground level.
The SWFC has been lauded for its
design, and in 2008 it was named by architects as the year's best completed
skyscraper. In 2013, the SWFC was exceeded in height by the adjacent Shanghai Tower , which is due for completion in
2014. Together, the Shanghai World Financial
Center , Shanghai
Tower and Jin Mao Tower form the world's first adjacent
grouping of three supertall skyscrapers.
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