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Shanghai World Financial Center

Pudong, China

The 11th tallest building in the world

494.3 m · 1,622 ft

The Shanghai World Financial Center (SWFC, pinyin: Shànghǎi Huánqiú Jīnróng Zhōngxīn, Shanghainese: Zånhae Guejieu Cinyon Tsonsin) is a supertall skyscraper located in the Pudong district of Shanghai. 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 Corporation and Shanghai Construction (Group) General Co. as its main contractor. It is a mixed-use skyscraper, consisting of offices, hotels, conference rooms, and a ground-floor shopping mall. On 14 September 2007, the skyscraper was topped out at 492 meters (1, 614.2 ft), making it the 2nd tallest building in the world on completion (the tallest at the time being Taipei 101), the tallest building in the world by roof height only, and the tallest in mainland China. The SWFC opened to the public on 28 August 2008, with its (since closed) observation deck opening on 30 August. The observation deck offered views from 474 m (1, 555 ft) above ground level. Park Hyatt Shanghai is the tower's hotel component, comprising 174 rooms and suites occupying the 79th to the 93rd floors, which at the time of completion was the highest hotel in the world. It is now the third-highest hotel in the world after the Ritz-Carlton, Hong Kong, which occupies floors 102 to 118 of the International Commerce Centre.

Building data from Wikidata (CC0); heights normalised. Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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