Shun Hing Square (), also known as "Di Wang Tower" () is a -tall
skyscraper
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in
Shenzhen
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,
Guangdong
) means "wide" or "vast", and has been associated with the region since the creation of Guang Prefecture in AD 226. The name "''Guang''" ultimately came from Guangxin ( zh, labels=no, first=t, t= , s=广信), an outpost established in Han dynasty ...
province,
China
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. Upon its completion in 1996, it became
the tallest building in China, until being surpassed by
CITIC Plaza in the next year.
Background
The building was built at a pace of four floors in nine days. The main tower contains office space, a car park and a 5-story shopping arcade complex with four sets of escalators, five passenger elevators and two service elevators, and a floor area ranging from 3450 m
2 to 4900 m
2. On the top floor (69th floor) is the "Meridian View Center," an observation deck.
Its common nickname, "Diwang Building" derives from the auction price for the piece of land it stands being the most expensive in Shenzhen at the time. 24,500 tonnes of steel were used in construction.
Records held
As of April 2023, the building is
* The
fifth tallest in Shenzhen
*
25th tallest building in mainland China
*
49th tallest in the world
* The tallest building in the world with fewer than 70 floors
* The tallest all-steel building in China.
* The tallest building in China from 1996 to the completion of
CITIC Plaza in
Guangzhou
Guangzhou, Chinese postal romanization, previously romanized as Canton or Kwangchow, is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Guangdong Provinces of China, province in South China, southern China. Located on the Pearl River about nor ...
in 1997.
* The first skyscraper in China to be one of the ten tallest in the world (
Bank of China Tower and
Central Plaza, of Hong Kong, were constructed and topped out while Hong Kong was still under British sovereignty).
* The first in China to reach .
* Tallest building constructed in Shenzhen in the 1990s.
* Tallest building in Shenzhen from 1996 to September 2011 until surpassed by the nearby
Kingkey 100.
Image gallery
File:Shun Hing Square.jpg, Shun Hing Square with the annex shown in front
File:FREESKY观光层上所见的深圳之景.jpg, Shun Hing Square as shown from the Ping An Finance Center
File:从地王大厦上俯瞰鹏城.jpg, Seeing from the top of Shun Hing Square
See also
*
List of tallest buildings in Shenzhen
Shenzhen, a major city and Special Economic Zone (China), Special Economic Zone in Guangdong, China, is home to over 443 completed skyscrapers taller than 150 m (492 ft), of which 184 are taller than , making it the largest concentration of sky ...
*
List of tallest structures in China
*
List of tallest buildings in the world
This is a list of the tallest buildings. Tall buildings, such as skyscrapers, are intended here as enclosed structures with continuously occupiable floors and a height of at least . Such definition excludes non-building structures, such as tow ...
References
External links
Shun Hing Squareon
CTBUH
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Skyscraper Center
Meridian View Center observation deck video*
Skyscraper office buildings in Shenzhen
Buildings and structures completed in 1996
Retail buildings in China
Skyscrapers in Shenzhen
1996 in Shenzhen
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