2024-12-22T03:02:04-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150079934/china-s-projected-tallest-building-reduces-height-now-ranking-5th-tallest Hope Daley 2018-08-29T16:15:00-04:00 >2018-08-29T16:15:55-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/d6/d6c6d609367c9cbbd6b10d780ce06fa3.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Greenland Wuhan Center, designed to surpass the Shanghai Tower and become China&rsquo;s tallest building, will be falling short of its planned 636 metres (2086 feet) height, after the local government prescribed a 21 percent reduction in height for the central China supertall, according to an account in local media outlet the Paper.</p></em><br /><br /><p><a href="https://archinect.com/firms/cover/51099/adrian-smith-gordon-gill-architecture" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture</a> won the <a href="https://archinect.com/news/article/10728368/adrian-smith-gordon-gill-architecture-win-competition-to-design-world-s-4th-tallest-building" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">competition back in 2010</a> to design China's tallest, and the world's 4th tallest, building. The <a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/14612/supertall" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">supertall</a> was originally designed&nbsp;to&nbsp;reach 126 floors, however construction halted in August last year stopping at the 96th floor.&nbsp;</p> <p>The height reduction is due to safety concerns with the expansion of the city's air transit hub completed in 2017. The original 126 floors would now be in the path of planes approaching the Tianhe International Airport. The building will now only reach&nbsp;1,640 feet making it China&rsquo;s fifth-tallest.&nbsp;</p> https://archinect.com/news/article/10728368/adrian-smith-gordon-gill-architecture-win-competition-to-design-world-s-4th-tallest-building Paul Petrunia 2011-06-21T18:18:00-04:00 >2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/jl/jlm1pq6b1jx4t8uq.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p> Chicago-based architects, Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture, have just shared with us news that they have won the competition to design China's Wuhan Greenland Center. Press release follows...</p> <p> CHICAGO, June 21, 2011&mdash;<a href="http://smithgill.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture</a> is pleased to announce that it has won an international competition to design Wuhan Greenland Center, which at 606 meters (1,988 feet) will likely be China&rsquo;s third-tallest building, and the fourth tallest in the world, when completed in about five years. Construction is scheduled to begin this summer in Wuhan near the meeting of the Yangtze and Han rivers.</p> <p> A project of the Shanghai-based Greenland Group, the 119-level Wuhan Greenland Center will be comprised of about 300,000 square meters of floor area, including about 200,000 sm of offices, 50,000 sm of luxury apartments and condominiums, a 45,000 sm five-star hotel, and a 5,000 sm, 27-meter-tall private club with spectacular views at the tower&rsquo;s penthouse level.</p> <p> AS+...</p>