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      设计总高度达632米的上海中心大厦2008年11月29日开工,2014年竣工交付使用, 它将超过420.5米的
金茂大厦和492米的上海环球金融中心,成为中国第一高楼,也将成为完全符合“绿色建筑”标准的摩天大楼。

  “上海中心”位于浦东小陆家嘴地区,其建筑设计方案由美国Gensler建筑设计事务所完成,主体建筑结构高度为
580米,总高度632米,是目前中国国内规划中的第一高楼。

  “上海中心”建筑外观呈螺旋式上升,建筑表面的开口由底部旋转贯穿至顶部,与
金茂大厦经典隽永的塔形和环球金融中心
洁明快的立体造型形成鲜明对比。从天空向下俯瞰,“上海中心”非对称的顶部卷折状造型,与金茂的点状和环球金融中心的线
状顶部遥相辉应,将进一步丰富上海的城市天际线。

  “上海中心”总投入将达148亿元,预计在2010年上海世博会时地下部分封顶,2012年结构封顶且部分投入运营,
2014年竣工交付使用。项目的开发建设和运营由上海中心大厦建设发展有限公司负责。

  “上海中心将是一座‘绿色’摩天楼。”上海中心大厦专家顾问委员会专家、建设部绿色建筑工程技术研究中心主任汪维说。尽管
目前世界上各大摩天楼都采用了一些绿色节能技术,但同时取得中国绿色建筑评价体系和美国LEED绿色建筑认证体系的摩
天大楼,“上海中心”将是首开先河。

  早在1993年《上海陆家嘴中心区规划设计方案》中,陆家嘴Z3地块就规划了3幢超高层的标志性建筑。上海中心大厦
建设发展有限公司董事长孔庆伟说:“随着我们的资金筹措能力、科研施工及管理水平不断提高,‘上海中心’开工水到渠成。而
在经济趋冷的时候,‘上海中心’的建设也有利于拉动内需,熨平经济波动。
Shanghai Center Tower - China's Next Tallest Building   上海中心大厦
 Three months after mainland China’s tallest building, Shanghai World
Financial Center, opened to tenants in a souring real estate environment
in 2008, ground is being broken just next door in Shanghai for a $2.2
billion building more than one-fourth higher.

  Next up is a 632-meter (2,073 ft), 128-floor building dubbed Shanghai
Tower (Shanghai Zhongxing Dasha, Chinese:上海中心大厦), China’s
latest fantastical super-tall shopping, office and hotel skyscraper is
designed to curl heavenward, incorporating “green” elements such as
rainwater capture and wind redirecting technology. Gardens will grow in
between and around what are essentially nine cylindrical buildings
stacked atop one another, all of it visible through a transparent façade.

Nicknamed the Shanghai Dragon, the building is designed by San
Francisco-based Gensler while the design institute of Shanghai’s Tongji
University will act as the local partner. Shanghai Tower will be the tallest
building in China once it is completed in 2014, and the second tallest in
the world, surpassed only by the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, which stands at
828 meters (2,717 feet).

    Gensler chairman Art Gensler promised a sustainable tall building,
explaining: “We've lined the perimeter of the tower, top to bottom, with
public spaces, and we've integrated strategic environmental thinking into
every move. The tower is a stage that comes to life through the presence
of people.”

 Such a building has been on the drawing board since the early 1990s,
when Shanghai planners designated a trio of skyscrapers for the heart of
a purpose-built financial district called Liujiazhui, Pudong. The first of the
three, the 88-floor, 420-meter
Jin Mao Tower opened in 1998 to
laudatory reviews for its stainless steel pagoda-like design. Ten years
later, in August, Japan’s Mori Building Co. took wraps off the 492-meter
building called Shanghai World Financial Center, that was as
controversial as it was delayed. It features a trapezoid-shaped hole at its
top, where a glass-enclosed observation deck offers views from floor 101.

Address: Luijiazui Financial Centre, Pudong, Shanghai, China
Transportation: Subway Line 2 at Lujiazui or Dong Chang Road
Structural Engineer: Thornton Tomasetti
Consulting Engineer: Cosentini Associates
Design Architect: Gensler (San Francisco, USA)
Groundbreaking: 29 November 2008
Estimated completion
: 2014
Antenna or spire: 632 m (2,073 ft)
Stories: 128
Cost: RMB ¥ 4.8 billion  (US$2.2 billion)
Location Map of Shanghai Center Tower
Location Map of Shanghai Center Tower
上海中心大厦 - 中国大陆第一高楼 (在建) - 632米
Shanghai Tower (632 m, left) will tower over the
nearby Pudong landmarks the
Jinmao Tower
(420.5 m), Oriental Pearl TV Tower (468 m) and
Shanghai World Financial Center (492 m, right)
when completed in 2014
Shanghai Tower: A Vertical, Sustainable City - Video