Shun Hing Square

Shun Hing Square
Shun Hing Square in August 2012
General information
Status	Complete
Type	Office, parking garage, retail
Location	5002 Shennan Road East, Shenzhen, China
Coordinates	22°32′43″N 114°06′21″E / 22.54528°N 114.10583°ECoordinates: 22°32′43″N 114°06′21″E / 22.54528°N 114.10583°E
Construction started	1993
Completed	March 1996
Owner	Kumagai Gumi Company[1]
Height
Architectural	384 m (1,260 ft)[1]
Roof	325 m (1,066 ft)
Top floor	298.1 m (978 ft)[1]
Observatory	298.1 m (978 ft)[1]
Technical details
Floor count	69[1] (+3 basement floors)
Floor area	280,000 m^2 (3,000,000 sq ft)[1]
Lifts/elevators	36[1]
Design and construction
Architect	K.Y. Cheung Design Associates[1]
Developer	Shun Hing Group
Structural engineer	Maunsell AECOM Group[1]
References
[1][2]

Shun Hing Square (Chinese: 信兴广场), also nicknamed "Diwang Building" (Chinese: 地王大厦) is a 384-metre-tall (1,260 ft) skyscraper in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, China.

Background

The building was built at a pace of four floors in nine days. The main tower is of office space, while an accompanying 120-metre-tall, 35-floor annex contains apartments, a car park and a 5-storey shopping arcade complex, four sets of escalators, five passenger lifts and two service lifts, and a floor area ranging from 3450 m² to 4900 m². On the top floor is the Meridian View Centre, an observation deck.^[3][4] Its common nickname "Diwang Building" derives from the auction price for the piece of land it stands being the most expensive in Shenzhen at the time. 24,500 tonnes of steel were used in construction.

Records held

Currently, the building is

• The third tallest in Shenzhen
• 10th tallest building in mainland China
• 28th tallest in the world
• the tallest building in the world with fewer than 70 floors
• the tallest all-steel building in China.
• the tallest building in China from 1996 to the completion of CITIC Plaza in Guangzhou in 1997.
• the first skyscraper in China to be one of the ten tallest in the world (Bank of China Tower and Central Plaza, of Hong Kong, were constructed while Hong Kong was still under British sovereignty).^[3]
• tallest building constructed in Shenzhen in the 1990s.
• tallest building in Shenzhen from 1996 to September 2011, surpassed by the nearby 441.8-metre-tall (1,449 ft) Kingkey 100.

With a width to height ratio of 1:9, it was also the thinnest building in the world upon completion.^[5]

Image gallery

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  Shun Hing Square with the annex shown in front

See also

• List of tallest buildings in the world
• List of tallest buildings and structures in the People's Republic of China
• List of tallest buildings in Shenzhen

See Video: Meridian View Centre observation deck

References

1. "Shun Hing Square - The Skyscraper Center". Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat.
2. "Shun Hing Square". Skyscraperpage.com. Retrieved 2008-07-08.
3. "Shun Hing Square". skyscraperpicture.com. Retrieved 2008-07-08.
4. "Shun Hing Square". Emporis.com. Retrieved 2008-07-08.
5. http://cn.bing.com/search?q=%E4%BF%A1%E5%85%B4%E5%B9%BF%E5%9C%BA&qs=n&form=QBLH&pq=%E4%BF%A1%E5%85%B4%E5%B9%BF%E5%9C%BA&sc=8-4&sp=-1&sk=&cvid=7f3a53f798614bae8ef48d655b676b46

External links

• Shun Hing Square on CTBUH Skyscraper Center