Ping An Finance Centre Explained

Ping An Finance Centre
Location:5033 Yitian Road, Futian District, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
Groundbreaking Date:29 August 2009
Start Date:18 January 2010[1]
Completion Date:28 March 2017
Building Type:Dining, observation, offices, shopping mall
Floor Count:115 aboveground levels, plus 5 belowground basement levels
Elevator Count:80 (mall included)[2]
Cost:$1.5 billion (USD, estimated)[3]
Architect:Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates[4]
Structural Engineer:Thornton Tomasetti[5]
Main Contractor:China Construction First Building Group
Developer:Ping An Life Insurance Company of China
Engineer:J. Roger Preston, Limited (MEP)[6]
Owner:Ping An Life Insurance Company of China
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The Ping An Finance Center is a 115-storey, 599.1abbr=onNaNabbr=on supertall skyscraper in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China.[7] The building was commissioned by Ping An Insurance and designed by the American architectural firm Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates. It was completed in 2017, and is the tallest building in Shenzhen, the 2nd tallest building in China and the 5th tallest building in the world.[8] It also broke the record of having the highest observation deck in a building at 562abbr=onNaNabbr=on.[9] It is the second largest skyscraper in the world by floor area after Azabudai Hills Main Tower in Tokyo, Japan.

Progress

The building is located within the Central Business District of Shenzhen in Futian. Its 18,931 m2 lot was purchased by Ping An Group via auction at a price of 1.6568 billion RMB on 6 November 2007. Design of the building began in 2008 with Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates providing the architectural design and Thornton Tomasetti providing structural design. Its foundation stone was laid on 29 August 2009, and construction started in November the same year. China Construction First Building Group was hired as the general contractor to construct the building.

In March 2013, the construction process was temporarily halted, due to the suspected use of concrete made with unprocessed sea sand, which could corrode the steel structure.[10] Construction resumed on the building after sample testing.

On the morning of 15 July 2014, upon a 10-meter-long steel column being lifted to place, the skyscraper exceeded 443.8 meters in height, surpassing the KK100 Tower to become the tallest building in Shenzhen.

The building was topped out on 30 April 2015, and became the second tallest skyscraper in China at a height of 599.1 meters. The original plan was to add a 60-meter-long antenna atop the building to surpass the Shanghai Tower and become the tallest building in China. However, in February 2015, it was decided that the antenna would not top the tower due to the possibility that it might obstruct flight paths.[11] [12] [13]

Features

The building contains office, hotel and retail spaces, a conference center, and a high-end shopping mall. An observation deck named Free Sky is located on floor 116.[14] As its name suggests, it is also the headquarters of Ping An Insurance. The design of the building is meant to be unique and elegant, and to represent the history and achievements of the main tenant. A stainless-steel facade that weighs approximately 1,700 metric tons provides a modern design to the building.

The building has a gross floor area of 378,600 m2. The 115-storey tower has a width-to-height aspect ratio of 1:10 and also has an 11-story podium. Including the podium, the building has 495,520 m2 of floor space. A five-level basement adds 90,000 m2. The 620,000 metric ton tower has eight main columns which form the superstructure. The column dimensions range from approximately 6 by 3.2 m at the lowest level to 2.9 by 1.4 m at the top of the tower.

Elevators

The Ping An International Finance Center is equipped with 33 double deck elevators, travelling at maximum speeds of up to 10 m/s.

Climbing attempts

The Ping An Financial Center building has been the subject of frequent rooftopping attempts. In January 2015, daredevil Malaysian photographer Keow Wee Loong climbed the then incomplete building and released video footage and a photo taken from a crane at the tower's top.[15] [16] The structure was subsequently climbed during the period of the Chinese New Year on 19 February 2015 by two Russian and Ukrainian urban explorers, Vadim Makhorov and Vitaly Raskalov from Ontheroofs, who further climbed out to a crane above the under-construction tower and documented their ascent with video and photos.[17] [18]

Phase 2

The second building of the project, a 290-metre, 47-story skyscraper known as the South Tower, has been completed. Construction began in April 2014 and it opened in 2018/19. The complex includes a 5-star Park Hyatt hotel, a planned retail bridge connecting the two skyscrapers from levels 3 through 6.[19]

Current status

Low occupancy

According to South China Morning Post, almost 30 percent of the office space remained empty in the second quarter of 2019.[20]

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Ping An Finance Center . CTBUH . 12 May 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131230231903/http://www.skyscrapercenter.com/building.php?building_id=%2054 . 30 December 2013 . dead .
  2. Web site: Schindler to equip China's tallest building . 7 January 2014 . Schindler. 7 January 2014.
  3. Poon. Dennis C.K.. Gottlebe. Torsten G.. December 2017. Sky High in Shenzhen. Civil Engineering. Reston, Virginia. American Society of Civil Engineers. 87. 12. 48–53. https://web.archive.org/web/20171217010423/https://www.asce.org/cemagazine/sky-high-in-shenzhen/. 2017-12-17.
  4. Web site: Ping An Finance Center . Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates . 16 May 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141015220606/http://www.kpf.com/project.asp?ID=163 . 15 October 2014 . dead .
  5. Web site: Ping An International Finance Center. Thornton Tomasetti. 8 October 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20170218220759/http://www.thorntontomasetti.com/projects/ping_an_international_finance_center/. 18 February 2017. dead.
  6. Web site: Ping an Finance Center - the Skyscraper Center .
  7. Web site: Ping An Finance Center - The Skyscraper Center. 2020-11-14. www.skyscrapercenter.com.
  8. Web site: Work on China's 838-meter high 'Sky City' starts. Emirates 24/7. 23 July 2013. 24 July 2013.
  9. Web site: World's Highest Observation Decks. ctbuh. www.ctbuh.org. en-US. 2018-10-28. https://web.archive.org/web/20181028225620/http://www.ctbuh.org/Publications/CTBUHJournal/InNumbers/TBINObservationDecks/tabid/7043/language/en-US/Default.aspx. 28 October 2018. dead.
  10. https://www.wired.com/2013/03/poor-quality-chinese-concrete-could-lead-to-skyscraper-collapses/ Poor-Quality Chinese Concrete Could Lead to Skyscraper Collapses
  11. Web site: 平安国际金融中心成深圳最高楼 年底将成世界第二 . 6 May 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160602220802/http://gd.sina.com.cn/news/m/2014-07-15/0734112774.html . 2 June 2016 . dead .
  12. Web site: 深圳平安金融中心 . 6 May 2016.
  13. Web site: 深圳第一高楼平安国际金融中心封顶 高度超过600米 . 6 May 2016.
  14. Web site: Ping An Finance Center facts and information . The Tower Info . 28 September 2018.
  15. Web site: Malaysian rooftopper hates to be called Spiderman – Nation – The Star Online. thestar.com.my.
  16. Web site: WATCH: Don't Look Down: Terrifying View from World's Second Tallest Building. 3 March 2015. yahoo.com.
  17. Web site: Climbing the Shenzhen Finance Center ontheroofs story with photos and video. Ontheroofs. 8 May 2015. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20161011014723/http://ontheroofs.com/shenzhen-finance-centre/. 11 October 2016.
  18. Web site: Chan. Casey. Watching these guys climb a 2165-foot tall tower made my nerves go crazy. Sploid. 11 May 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150513135557/http://sploid.gizmodo.com/watching-these-guys-climb-a-2165-foot-tall-tower-made-m-1703548671. 13 May 2015. dead.
  19. Web site: Ping An Finance Center: Pioneering China's Tallest – Efficiencies of Forms and Structures . CTBUH . 12 May 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130818182840/http://www.ctbuh.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=FQrTKjF2gXo%3D&tabid=112&language=en-GB%2F . 18 August 2013 . dead .
  20. Web site: China's skyscraper developers have to pay for their vanity as the frenzy to scale new heights lead to record-breaking vacancies . Liu . Pearl . 10 December 2019 . South China Morning Post . 23 February 2021.