Tomorrow Square | |
Native Name: | 明天广场 |
Location: | Huangpu District, Shanghai, China |
Coordinates: | 31.232°N 121.465°W |
Status: | Complete |
Start Date: | 1997 |
Completion Date: | 2003 |
Est Completion: | 1 October 2003 |
Building Type: | Office, hotel, restaurant, apartments |
Antenna Spire: | 2850NaN0 |
Roof: | 2380NaN0 |
Floor Count: | 63 |
Elevator Count: | 15 |
Floor Area: | 130063m2 |
Architect: | John Portman & Associates |
Website: | JW Marriott Shanghai |
Tomorrow Square is the eighth-tallest building in Shanghai, China. It is located in Huangpu District, Puxi, close to People's Square. It is about 285 m (934 ft) tall and has 63 floors.
This multi-purpose building contains a 342-room JW Marriott hotel, and 255 executive apartment units. It was completed on 1 October 2003. Starting from a square base, the all-concrete Tomorrow Square tower transforms itself into a diagonal square as it rises to a peak. Engineers of the exterior vertical support system were faced with a unique challenge as a result of this unusual shape. They chose flat slabs for the hotel floors and beam and slab construction for the office floors. A combination of shear walls and frame action stabilizes the slender tower laterally against wind and earthquake forces. The foundations are 80m (260feet)-long bored piles supporting a column mat.