The Shanghai World Financial Centre
The Shanghai World Financial Centre is a super tall skyscraper located in
the Pudong district of Shanghai, China. It was designed by Kohn Pederson Fox and
Leslie.E.Robertson as its
structural engineer. It is a mixed-use skyscraper, consisting of offices,
hotels, conference rooms, observation decks, and ground-floor shopping malls. Park Hyatt Shanghai is the
tower's hotel component, comprising 174 rooms and suites. Occupying the 79th to
the 93rd floors, it is the second-highest hotel in the world.
In 2008 it was named by
architects as the year's best completed skyscraper. In 2013, the SWFC was exceeded in
height by the adjacent Shanghai Tower which
is due for completion in 2014. Together, the SWFC, Shanghai Tower and Jin Mao Tower form the world's first adjacent
grouping of three super tall skyscrapers.
The tower's trapezoid
aperture is made up of structural steel and reinforced concrete. A large number
of forces, such as wind loads, the people in the building and heavy equipment
housed in the building, act on the SWFC's structure. These compressive and
bending forces are carried down to the ground by the diagonal-braced frame
(with added outrigger trusses). The design employs an effective use of
material, because it decreases the thickness of the outer core shear walls and
the weight of the structural steel in the perimeter walls. 
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