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The Wuhan World Trade Tower () is a 273-meter (896 foot) tall
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 ...
located in
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 ...
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Hubei Hubei (; ; alternately Hupeh) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, and is part of the Central China region. The name of the province means "north of the lake", referring to its position north of Dongting Lake. The prov ...
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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 ...
. It became the tallest building in
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 ...
after its completion. However, it was surpassed by the
Minsheng Bank Building The Minsheng Bank Building (also known as Wuhan International Securities Building) is a supertall skyscraper located in Wuhan, Hubei, China. It is the tallest building in mainland China entirely steel-structured lacking a reinforced concrete ...
in 2007. As of September 2015 it is the 4th tallest in Wuhan measured up to the highest architectural point. It was completed in 1998 and has 60 floors, two of which are underground and 58 are above ground. The lower levels of serve as a shopping mall and all levels above the mall serve as
office An office is a space where an Organization, organization's employees perform Business administration, administrative Work (human activity), work in order to support and realize objects and Goals, plans, action theory, goals of the organizati ...
spaces. The tower's total height is 273 meters with the antenna. The tower is 248 metres tall up to the
spire A spire is a tall, slender, pointed structure on top of a roof of a building or tower, especially at the summit of church steeples. A spire may have a square, circular, or polygonal plan, with a roughly conical or pyramidal shape. Spires are ...
and 229 meters tall up to the roof. It has a total floor area of 1,430,000 square meters. The postmodern skyscraper is a tube-in-tube style structure with a curtain wall facade.


See also

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List of skyscrapers 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 ...
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List of tallest buildings in Wuhan This list of tallest buildings in Wuhan ranks skyscrapers in Wuhan Wuhan (, ; ; ) is the capital of Hubei Province in the People's Republic of China. It is the largest city in Hubei and the most populous city in Central China, with a pop ...
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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+), Indo ...


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SkyscraperPage.com's entry

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