Ping An Finance Centre
Ping An Finance Centre
Chinese: 平安金融中心; pinyin: píng'ān jīnróng zhōngxīn
Completed
Dining, observation, offices, shopping mall
5033 Yitian Road, Futian District, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
29 August 2009
18 January 2010[1]
28 March 2017[1]
$1.5 billion (USD, estimated)[3]
599.1 m (1,966 ft)
555.1 m (1,821 ft)[1]
562.1 m (1,844 ft)
115 aboveground levels, plus 5 belowground basement levels[1]
459,187 m2 (4,942,650 sq ft)[1]
J. Roger Preston, Limited (MEP)[6]
平安金融中心
平安金融中心
Ping An Finance Centre
Píng'ān Jīnróng Zhōngxīn
Píng'ān Jīnróng Zhōngxīn
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The Ping An Finance Center (Chinese: 平安金融中心; pinyin: Píng'ān Jīnróng Zhōngxīn) is a 115-storey, 599.1 m (1,966 ft) supertall skyscraper in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China.[7] The building was commissioned by Ping An Insurance and designed by the American architectural firm Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates. It was completed in 2017,[1] and is the tallest building in Shenzhen, the 2nd tallest building in China and the 5th tallest building in the world.[8][3] It also broke the record of having the highest observation deck in a building at 562 m (1,844 ft).[9] It is the second largest skyscraper in the world by floor area after Azabudai Hills Main Tower in Tokyo, Japan.
Features[edit]
The building contains office, hotel and retail spaces, a conference center, and a high-end shopping mall. An observation deck named Free Sky is located on floor 116.[14] As its name suggests, it is also the headquarters of Ping An Insurance. The design of the building is meant to be unique and elegant, and to represent the history and achievements of the main tenant. A stainless-steel facade that weighs approximately 1,700 metric tons provides a modern design to the building.[3]
The building has a gross floor area of 378,600 m2. The 115-storey tower has a width-to-height aspect ratio of 1:10 and also has an 11-story podium. Including the podium, the building has 495,520 m2 of floor space. A five-level basement adds 90,000 m2. The 620,000 metric ton tower has eight main columns which form the superstructure. The column dimensions range from approximately 6 by 3.2 m at the lowest level to 2.9 by 1.4 m at the top of the tower.[3]
Climbing attempts[edit]
The Ping An Financial Center building has been the subject of frequent rooftopping attempts. In January 2015, daredevil Malaysian photographer Keow Wee Loong climbed the then incomplete building and released video footage and a photo taken from a crane at the tower's top.[15][16]
The structure was subsequently climbed during the period of the Chinese New Year on 19 February 2015 by two Russian and Ukrainian urban explorers, Vadim Makhorov and Vitaly Raskalov from Ontheroofs, who further climbed out to a crane above the under-construction tower and documented their ascent with video and photos.[17][18]
Phase 2[edit]
The second building of the project, a 290-metre, 47-story skyscraper known as the South Tower, has been completed. Construction began in April 2014 and it opened in 2018/19. The complex includes a 5-star Park Hyatt hotel, a planned retail bridge connecting the two skyscrapers from levels 3 through 6.[19]
Current status[edit]
Low occupancy[edit]
According to South China Morning Post, almost 30 percent of the office space remained empty in the second quarter of 2019.[20]