Tomorrow Square Explained

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.

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