Tomorrow Square
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Tomorrow Square 明天廣場 |
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Tomorrow Square |
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Location | Huangpu District, Shanghai, China |
Coordinates | Coordinates: |
Status | Complete |
Constructed | 1997-2003 |
Estimated completion | 1 October 2003 |
Use | Office, hotel, restaurant, apartments |
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Antenna/Spire | 286 m (938 ft) |
Roof | 238 m (781 ft) |
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Floor count | 55 |
Floor area | 130,063 m² |
Elevator count | 15 |
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Architect | John Portman & Associates |
Tomorrow Square (Chinese: 明天廣場) is the third tallest building in Shanghai. It is located in the Puxi district, close to People's Square. It is about 285 m (934 ft) tall and has 55 floors.
This multi-purpose building contains a 342-room Marriott hotel, and 255 executive apartment 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 shear walls and frame action stabilizes the slender tower laterally against wind and earthquake forces. The foundations are 80-meter-long bored piles supporting a column mat.
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