Tomorrow Square () is the eighth-tallest building in

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. It is located in Huangpu District,

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. It is about 285 m (934 ft) tall and has 63 floors. This multi-purpose building contains a 342-room

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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 sheer walls and frame action stabilizes the slender tower laterally against wind and earthquake forces. The foundations are -long bored piles supporting a column mat.

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