Yingli Tower, also known as Ying Li International Financial Centre is a

skyscraper 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-ris ...

in the Jiefangbei CBD area of

Chongqing Chongqing ( or ; ; Sichuanese dialects, Sichuanese pronunciation: , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ), Postal Romanization, alternately romanized as Chungking (), is a Direct-administered municipalities of China, municipality in Southwes ...

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

. Its construction started in 2009 and was completed in 2012. It is an office building with a retail podium. In 2012 Yingli Tower eclipsed the

Chongqing World Trade Center The Chongqing World Trade Center (WTCC, ) is a -tall skyscraper located in the Jiefangbei CBD area of Chongqing, China. The building was completed in 2005 after three years of construction beginning in 2002 and topping out in 2004. The buildin ...

to become the tallest building in Western China, although this title was short lived since

Chongqing Poly Tower Chongqing Poly Tower is a skyscraper in Chongqing, China. Situated at the site of former Chongqing hotel, the building sits on 11831 metre square of land at the junction Linjiangmen and Minsheng Road in the central business district ( Jiefan ...

received the title later in the year.

Architecture

Like traditional American skyscraper design, articulated setbacks are used to separate and taper the vertical shaft of the main body as it rises, similar to the

Empire State Building The Empire State Building is a 102-story Art Deco skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. The building was designed by Shreve, Lamb & Harmon and built from 1930 to 1931. Its name is derived from "Empire State", the nickname of the st ...

. The tower bears some resemblance to IFC 2 in Hong Kong. Subtle features characteristic in Art Deco design are embedded within the corners of the base and the central main shaft of the tower. Each of the outer corner setbacks are curved outwards. A similar method was reused to form the crown of the building but the design curves inwards instead to form a single pinnacle consisting of a series of tessellated diamonds. This curvature was also applied on the roof design of the retail podium which also curves inwards towards the tower.

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