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Guangzhou CTF Finance Centre

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Facts

Official Name Guangzhou CTF Finance Centre

Other Names The CTF Guangzhou, Chow Tai Fook Centre,East Tower

Structure Type Building

Status Architecturally Topped Out

Country China

City Guangzhou

Street Address & Map Zhujiang East Road

Building Function hotel / residential / office

Structural Material composite

Proposed 2009

Construction Start 2010

Completion 2016

Companies Involved

Owner Chow Tai Fook Enterprises

Developer New World Development Company Limited

Architect

• Design Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates

• Architect of Record Guangzhou Design Institute; Leigh & Orange

Structural Engineer

• Design Arup

• Peer Review Leslie E. Robertson Associates

MEP Engineer

• Design WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff

Main Contractor China State Construction EngineeringCorporation

Other Consultant

• Acoustics Campbell Shillinglaw Lau Ltd

• Cost Rider Levett Bucknall

• Façade ALT Limited

• Fire Arup

• Geotechnical Arup

• Interiors Perception Design (HK) Ltd.; Super Potato; YabuPushelberg

• Landscape P Landscape Co

• LEED WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff

• Lighting Isometrix Lighting + Design, Ltd.; LightingPlanners Associates

• Security Arup

• Traffic MVA Transportation, Planning & ManagementConsultants

• W ind BMT Fluid Mechanics Ltd.; RWDI

Material Supplier

Height: Occupied494.5 m / 1,622 ft

Height: To Tip530 m / 1,739 ft

Height:Architectural

530 m / 1,739 ft

Floors Above Ground111

Floors Below Ground5

# of Elevators86

Top Elevator Speed20 m/s

Tower GFA398,000 m² / 4,284,036 ft²

Development GFA507,681 m² / 5,464,633 ft²

# of Apartments414

# of Hotel Rooms273

# of Parking Spaces1,705

Material Supplier

• Elevator Hitachi, Ltd.

• Façade MaintenanceEquipment

CoxGomyl

About Guangzhou CTF Finance Centre

Guangzhou CTF Finance Centre is a mixed-use tower located across from Guangzhou International Finance Center and Canton Tower. Theproject is adjacent to a large central park and a subterranean retail concourse with transportation interchanges, integrating the project intothe city and the wider region.

The design of Guangzhou CTF Finance Centre is derived from the efficient synthesis of its multiple uses. Its form is sculpted at four majortransition points: office to residential, residential to hotel, hotel to crown, and crown to sky. Instead of tapering to accommodate thesmaller floor plates required for different programs, the tower steps back at four angled parapets. These four setbacks allow for lush skyterraces and dramatic skylights.

Careful attention was paid to the material selection for the tower. Thus, a series of subtle terra cotta mullions line the tower’s elevations.This material played a very important role in both Eastern and Western history, and is also beneficial from an environmental standpoint. Theembodied energy of terra cotta is far less than aluminum, glass, or steel. It is self-cleaning and corrosion-resistant. Moreover, it can beproduced in many locations in China, reducing the environmental impact of shipping. These terra cotta mullions were designed to project outfrom the glass on an angle to provide shading on the exterior.

The building employs a number of energy efficient tools to reduce its environmental footprint. In addition to its strong multi-levelconnections to public transportation, the use of high-efficiency chillers and heat recovery from the water-cooled chiller condensers allcontribute to the building’s sustainability.

Guangzhou CTF Finance Centre

CTBUH Initiatives

Guangzhou Networking Reception 19 Oct 2016 – Conference Activity Invite

Inaugural Steering Committee Meetings in All Three Cities 10-20 Jan 2016 – Event Report

Global News

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Videos

A New Skyline Vision: CTF Towers in Guangzhou and Tianjin 17 Sep 2014 – Wing Ip (David) Ho, New World DevelopmentCompany Limited

Interview: China's Future Tallest 20 Sep 2012 – David Malott, KPF

Symbiosis: Supertalls and Future Cities 3 Feb 2010 – James von Klemperer, KPF

Research Papers

Innovative Technologies and Their Application on theConstruction of a 100-Plus-Story Skyscraper Sep 2015 – International Journal of High-Rise Buildings Volume 4Number 3

A New Skyline Vision: CTF Towers in Guangzhou and Tianjin 16 Sep 2014 – CTBUH 2014 Shanghai Conference Proceedings