Guangzhou International Finance Center or Guangzhou West Tower, is a 103- story,

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at Zhujiang Avenue West in the

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. One half of the

Guangzhou Twin Towers Guangzhou Twin Towers () are two skyscrapers in Guangzhou, Guangdong. They are the two tallest skyscrapers in the city. The West Tower, Guangzhou International Finance Center, was designed by Wilkinson Eyre and the East Tower, Guangzhou Chow ...

, it is the 24th tallest building in the world, completed in 2010. As of March 2018, it is the world's tallest building with a roof-top helipad, at 439 m (1,439 feet) high. The world's second-tallest building with a roof-top helipad was also completed in 2010: Beijing's China World Trade Center Tower III, whose roof-top helipad is 330 m (1,083 feet) high. Both buildings are taller than the

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, the previous record-holder from 1989 to 2010, whose roof-top helipad is only 310.3 m (1,018 feet) high. Construction of the building, designed by

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, broke ground in December 2005, and was completed in 2010. The building is used as a conference center, hotel and office building. Floors 1 through 66 are used as offices, floors 67 and 68 are for mechanical equipment, floors 69 to 98 have a Four Seasons Hotel with the lobby being on the 70th floor, and floors 99 and 100 are used as an observation deck. The building was previously known as Guangzhou West Tower and had a related project, the proposed Guangzhou East Tower, which, at , would have been even taller, though that project has been awarded to a different design by

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, the

Guangzhou CTF Finance Center The Guangzhou Chow Tai Fook Finance Centre (), also called East Tower, it is a tall mixed-use skyscraper in Guangzhou, Guangdong, which was completed in October 2016. It is the tallest completed building in Guangzhou, the third-tallest in Ch ...

. The building was the winner of the

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Four Seasons Guangzhou official website
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