Summary Description

• Architect: Kohn Pedersen Fox

(KPF)

• Developer: Mori Building Co.

• Structural engineer: Leslie E.

Robertson Associates RLLP

• Main contractor: China State

Construction Engineering Corp

and Shanghai Construction

(Group) General Co.

Summary Description

Height

• Architectural: 492.0 m (1,614.2 ft)

• Tip: 494.3 m (1,621.7 ft)

• Roof: 487.4 m (1,599.1 ft)

• Top floor: 474.0 m (1,555.1 ft)

• Observatory: 474 m (1,555.1 ft)

Technical details

• Floor count: 101

• Floor area: 381,600 m2 (4,107,500

sq ft)

• Lifts/elevators: 91

Summary Description

Type: Office, hotel, museum,

observation, parking garage, retail

Architectural style: Neo-Futurism

Location: 100 Century Avenue,

Pudong, Shanghai, China

Construction started: 1997

Completed: 2008

Opening: 28 August 2008

Cost: RMB ¥ 8.17 billion

(USD $ 1.20 billion)

Owner: Shanghai World Financial

Center Co., Ltd.

History

• Designed by American architectural firm

Kohn Pedersen Fox, the 101-story tower

was originally planned for construction

in 1997, but work was temporarily

interrupted by the Asian Financial Crisis

in the late 1990s, and was later paused

to accommodate design changes by the

Mori Building Company.

• The building of the tower was financed

by several multinational firms, including

Chinese, Japanese, and Hong Kong

banks, as well as by the Japanese

developer and American and European

investors. The American investment

bank Morgan Stanley coordinated the

tower's financing for Mori Building.

Development Timeline

• 1994 Conclusion of land use rights transfer

contract

• 1995 Establishment of Shanghai World

Financial Center Co., Ltd.

• 1996 Draft design, Shanghai World Financial

Center Design Draft Plan , received

• 1997 Expanded design, Shanghai World

Financial Center Expanded Design Plan ,

received

• 1997 Work to install the steel pipe

framework started

• 1998 Installation of steel pipe piles (2,000

units) and temporary pillars (199 units)

completed

• 2003 Second cornerstone-laying ceremony

• 2008 Construction completed

Design Concept• A square prism—the symbol used by the ancient Chinese

to represent the earth—is intersected by two cosmic arcs,

representing the heavens, as the tower ascends in gesture

to the sky. The interaction between these two realms

gives rise to the building’s form, carving a square sky

portal at the top of the tower that lends balance to the

structure and links the two opposing elements—the

heavens and the earth.

• Soaring above the city skyline, the Shanghai World

Financial Center stands as a symbol of commerce and

culture that speaks to the city’s emergence as a global

capital.

Architectural• The most distinctive feature of the SWFC's design is the

trapezoid aperture at the peak. The original design specified

a circular aperture, 46 m (151 ft) in diameter, to reduce the

stresses of wind pressure and to reference the Chinese

mythological depiction of the sky as a circle. It also

resembled a Chinese moon gate due to its circular form

in Chinese architecture. However, this initial design began

facing protests from some Chinese, including the mayor of

Shanghai, Chen Liangyu, who considered it too similar to

the rising sun design of the Japanese flag. Pedersen then

suggested that a bridge be placed at the bottom of the

aperture to make it less circular.

Original Design

Architectural• On 18 October 2005, KPF submitted an alternative design to

Mori Building and a trapezoidal hole replaced the circle at

the top of the tower, which in addition to changing the

controversial design, would also be cheaper and easier to

implement, according to the architects. Foreigners and

Chinese alike informally refer to the building as the bottle

opener, as some also find the Kingdom Centre in Riyadh.In

fact, metal replicas of the building that function as actual

bottle openers are sold in the observation deck gift shop.

Floor Plans

Structural

The tower's trapezoid aperture is made up of

structural steel and reinforced concrete. A

large number of forces, such as wind loads, the

people in the building and heavy equipment

housed in the building, act on the SWFC's

structure. These compressive and bending forces are carried down to the ground by the

diagonal-braced frame (with added outrigger

trusses). The design employs an effective use of

material, because it decreases the thickness of

the outer core shear walls and the weight of the structural steel in the perimeter walls.

GRAPHICS: WORLD’S TALLEST BUILDINGS

GRAPHICS: WORLD’S TALLEST BUILDINGS

GRAPHICS: WORLD’S TALLEST BUILDINGS

GRAPHICS: SHANGHAI WORLD FINANCIAL CENTER

GRAPHICS: SHANGHAI WORLD FINANCIAL CENTER

GRAPHICS: SHANGHAI WORLD FINANCIAL CENTER

GRAPHICS: SHANGHAI WORLD FINANCIAL CENTER

GRAPHICS: SHANGHAI WORLD FINANCIAL CENTER

GRAPHICS: SHANGHAI WORLD FINANCIAL CENTER

Sources:

• http://www.skyscrapercenter.com/pdf/shanghai-world-financial-center_2014-12-15-11-48-58.pdf

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_World_Financial_Center

• http://deskarati.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/The-Worlds-Tallest-Buildings.jpg

• http://www.kpf.com/project.asp?ID=35

Presentation by:

• Segnaben, Le Van O.

• Auxtero, Ivy D.

• Baltazar, Pauline Camille G.

• Pachao, Debbie Hope B.

A Partial Requirement on Building Technology 5

Instructor: Arch. Eduardo B. Lledo