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Wuhan Greenland Center
Wuhan Greenland Center is a tall skyscraper in Wuhan, China. The tower was originally planned to be but It was redesigned mid-construction due to airspace regulations so its height does not exceed above sea level. Another Chinese building, Ping An Finance Center, was also scaled down for similar reasons. The building was designed by Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architects in conjunction with Thornton Tomasetti Engineers won the design competition to build the tower for Greenland Group, a real estate developer owned by the Shanghai city government. Construction started in 2012 and had been put on-hold numerous times following the redesign in mid-2017 ranging from financial problems, to the COVID-19 Pandemic. The building finally topped-out in late 2020 and was completed in 2022. The Wuhan Greenland Center is Central China's tallest building and cost 4.5 billion dollars, mostly due to the number of times it had been put on-hold. Original design The original plan for the building ...
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Wuhan
Wuhan (, ; ; ) is the capital of Hubei, Hubei Province in the China, People's Republic of China. It is the largest city in Hubei and the most populous city in Central China, with a population of over eleven million, the List of cities in China by population, ninth-most populous Chinese city and one of the nine National Central City, National Central Cities of China. The name "Wuhan" came from the city's historical origin from the conglomeration of Wuchang District, Wuchang, Hankou District, Hankou, and Hanyang District, Hanyang, which are collectively known as the "Three Towns of Wuhan" (). Wuhan lies in the eastern Jianghan Plain, at the confluence of the Yangtze river and its largest tributary, the Han River (Hubei), Han River, and is known as "Nine Provinces' Thoroughfare" (). Wuhan has historically served as a busy city port for commerce and trading. Other historical events taking place in Wuhan include the Wuchang Uprising of 1911, which led to the end of 2,000 years of d ...
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Topping Out
In building construction, topping out (sometimes referred to as topping off) is a builders' rite traditionally held when the last beam (or its equivalent) is placed atop a structure during its construction. Nowadays, the ceremony is often parlayed into a media event for public relations purposes. It has since come to mean more generally finishing the structure of the building, whether there is a ceremony or not. Also commonly used to determine the amount of wind on the top of the structure. History The practice of "topping out" a new building can be traced to the ancient Scandinavian religious rite of placing a tree atop a new building to appease the tree-dwelling spirits displaced in its construction. Long an important component of timber frame building, it migrated initially to England and Northern Europe, thence to the Americas. A tree or leafy branch is placed on the topmost wood or iron beam, often with flags and streamers tied to it. A toast is usually drunk and sometimes ...
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2019 In China
The following lists events that happened during 2019 in China. Incumbents Paramount leader * General Secretary of the Communist Party – Xi Jinping Head of state * President – Xi Jinping ** Vice President – Wang Qishan Head of government * Premier – Li Keqiang ** Vice Premiers – Han Zheng, Sun Chunlan, Hu Chunhua, Liu He National legislature * Congress chairman – Li Zhanshu Political advisory * Conference chairman – Wang Yang Supervision commission * Director: Yang Xiaodu Governors * Governor of Anhui Province – Li Guoying * Governor of Fujian Province – Tang Dengjie * Governor of Gansu Province – Tang Renjian * Governor of Guangdong Province – Ma Xingrui * Governor of Guizhou Province – Shen Yiqin * Governor of Hainan Province – Shen Xiaoming * Governor of Hebei Province – Xu Qin * Governor of Heilongjiang Province – Wang Wentao * Governor of Henan Province – Chen Run'er (until 25 October), ...
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Skyscraper Office Buildings In Wuhan
A skyscraper is a tall continuously habitable building having multiple floors. Modern sources currently define skyscrapers as being at least or in height, though there is no universally accepted definition. Skyscrapers are very tall high-rise buildings. Historically, the term first referred to buildings with between 10 and 20 stories when these types of buildings began to be constructed in the 1880s. Skyscrapers may host offices, hotels, residential spaces, and retail spaces. One common feature of skyscrapers is having a steel frame that supports curtain walls. These curtain walls either bear on the framework below or are suspended from the framework above, rather than resting on load-bearing walls of conventional construction. Some early skyscrapers have a steel frame that enables the construction of load-bearing walls taller than of those made of reinforced concrete. Modern skyscrapers' walls are not load-bearing, and most skyscrapers are characterised by large surface a ...
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Buildings And Structures Under Construction In China
A building, or edifice, is an enclosed structure with a roof and walls standing more or less permanently in one place, such as a house or factory (although there's also portable buildings). Buildings come in a variety of sizes, shapes, and functions, and have been adapted throughout history for a wide number of factors, from building materials available, to weather conditions, land prices, ground conditions, specific uses, prestige, and aesthetic reasons. To better understand the term ''building'' compare the list of nonbuilding structures. Buildings serve several societal needs – primarily as shelter from weather, security, living space, privacy, to store belongings, and to comfortably live and work. A building as a shelter represents a physical division of the human habitat (a place of comfort and safety) and the ''outside'' (a place that at times may be harsh and harmful). Ever since the first cave paintings, buildings have also become objects or canvasses of much artistic ...
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List Of Tallest Buildings In The World
This list of tallest buildings includes skyscrapers with continuously occupiable floors and a height of at least . Non-building structures, such as towers, are not included in this list (for these, see ''List of tallest buildings and structures''). History Historically, the world's tallest man-made structure was the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt, which held the position for over 3800 years until the construction of Lincoln Cathedral in 1311. The Strasbourg Cathedral in France, completed in 1439, was the world's tallest building until 1874. The first skyscraper was pioneered in Chicago with the Home Insurance Building in 1885. The United States would hold the position of the world's tallest building throughout the 20th century until 1998, when the Petronas Towers were completed. Since then, two other buildings have gained the title: Taipei 101 in 2004 and Burj Khalifa in 2010. Since the beginning of the 21st century, the Middle East, China, and Southeast Asia have experie ...
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List Of Tallest Buildings In China
China has the largest number of tall buildings in the world, surpassing that of the top eleven largest, the United States (850+), United Arab Emirates (310+), South Korea (270+), Japan (270+), Malaysia (260+), India (220+), Australia (140+), Indonesia (130+), Thailand (120+), Canada (120+) and Philippines (120+) combined. As of mid 2022, China has more than 2,900 skyscrapers above , of which 100 are "supertall" ( and above). 45 of the 84 buildings (completed and architecturally topped out) with a minimum height of worldwide are in China (including Hong Kong). China is home to five of the world's ten tallest buildings. The tallest tower in China is currently the Shanghai Tower, located in the namesake city at a height of ; it is the third-tallest building in the world. The previous two tallest buildings in mainland China have also been in Shanghai. In June 2020, China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) imposed a ban on the construction of super high-rise build ...
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Baoneng Shenyang Global Financial Center
Baoneng Shenyang Global Financial Center () is an unfinished skyscraper Shenyang, Liaoning, China. It was planned to be tall. Construction started in 2014 and is expected to be completed in 2020. However, as of July 2019 the construction is on hold. Due to a recent height restriction in all of China, its height has been decreased to . The towers occupy a prestigious site to the south of the iconic Liaoning TV Tower, and form part of a master plan covering an area of 59 hectares along the famous "Golden Corridor" Youth Street in the central business district. The development overlooks Youth Park and the Nanyun River to the east. In addition to the two supertall towers, the complex will contain five luxury high-rise residential buildings, each rising approximately 200 meters above a podium that accommodates a large culturally-themed lifestyle shopping mall. Design The design of Global Financial Center Tower 1 represents an exercise in both simplicity and iconicity. At the ground ...
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Goldin Finance 117
Goldin Finance 117, also known as China 117 Tower (Chinese: 中国117大厦), is an unfinished skyscraper in Xiqing District, Tianjin, China. The tower was topped out in 2015 at a height of 597 m (1,959 ft). It has 128 storeys above ground, with 117 of them housing hotel and commercial space, which provides the source of the building’s name. Construction began in 2008 but was twice halted, and as of December 2022, it remains unfinished and unoccupied. Goldin Finance 117 and other failed skyscraper projects in China were responsible for the government banning construction of buildings over 500 metres (1,640 feet). If ever completed, Goldin Finance 117 will be China's last 500m+ tower for the foreseeable future. Construction history Construction of the skyscraper began in 2008 and was scheduled for completion in 2014. However, work was suspended in January 2010 due to the fallout of the Great Recession and eventually resumed in 2011 with the new estimated completion of 2018–20 ...
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List Of Future Tallest Buildings
This list of tallest buildings includes skyscrapers with continuously occupiable floors and a height of at least . Nonbuilding structure, Non-building structures, such as towers, are not included in this list (for these, see ''List of tallest buildings and structures''). History Historically, the world's tallest man-made structure was the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt, which held the position for over 3800 years until the construction of Lincoln Cathedral in 1311. The Strasbourg Cathedral in France, completed in 1439, was the world's tallest building until 1874. The first skyscraper was pioneered in Chicago with the Home Insurance Building in 1885. The United States would hold the position of the world's tallest building throughout the 20th century until 1998, when the Petronas Towers were completed. Since then, two other buildings have gained the title: Taipei 101 in 2004 and Burj Khalifa in 2010. Since the beginning of the 21st century, the Middle East, China, and South ...
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Tokyo Skytree
is a broadcasting and observation tower in Sumida, Tokyo. It became the tallest structure in Japan in 2010Tokyo Sky Tree beats Tokyo Tower, now tallest building in Japan
The Mainichi Daily News, 29 March 2010
and reached its full height of in March 2011, making it the tallest tower in the world, displacing the , and the third in the world after ...
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Shanghai Tower
Shanghai Tower () is a 128-story, megatall skyscraper in Lujiazui, Pudong, Shanghai."Shanghai Tower Breaks Ground"
Luxist.com. 29 November 2008. Retrieved 24 July 2013.
It is the tallest building in China and the world's third-tallest building by height to architectural top. It is the tallest and largest LEED Platinum certified building in the world since 2015. It shares the record (along with the