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Ping An Finance Center

Ping An International Finance Centre
平安国际金融中心
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Ping An Finance Centre in December 2015
General information
Status Architectually topped-out
Type Office & retail
Location Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
Coordinates 22°32′11″N 114°03′02″E / 22.536399°N 114.050446°E / 22.536399; 114.050446Coordinates: 22°32′11″N 114°03′02″E / 22.536399°N 114.050446°E / 22.536399; 114.050446
Construction started 2010
Estimated completion 2016
Cost $678 million
Owner Ping An Life Insurance Company of China
Height
Antenna spire 599 m (1,965 ft)
Roof 555.1 m (1,821 ft)
Top floor 555.1 m (1,821 ft)
Observatory 550 m (1,804 ft)
Technical details
Floor count 115, plus 4 underground floors
Floor area 385,918 m2 (4,153,990 sq ft)
Lifts/elevators 80
Design and construction
Architect Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates
Developer Ping An Life Insurance Company of China
Structural engineer Thornton Tomasetti
Main contractor China Construction First Building Group

Ping An International Finance Centre (also known as the Ping An IFC) (Chinese:平安国际金融中心) is a 115-storey megatall skyscraper in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, China. The building was commissioned by Ping An Insurance and designed by the American architectural firm Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates. It is expected to be completed in 2016, thus becoming the 4th tallest building in the world.

The building is located within the Central Business District of Shenzhen in Futian. Its 18,931 square metre lot was purchased by Ping An Group via auction at a price of 1.6568 billion RMB on November 6, 2007. Its foundation stone was laid on August 29, 2009 and construction started in November the same year.

On March 15, 2013, the construction process was temporarily halted, due to the suspected use of concrete made with unprocessed sea sand, which could corrode the steel structure. Construction resumed on the building after sample testing.

On the morning of July 15, 2014, upon a 10-metre long steel column being lifted to place, the skyscraper exceeded 443.8 metres in height, surpassing the KK100 tower to become the tallest building in Shenzhen.

The building topped out on April 30, 2015 and became the second tallest skyscraper in China at a height of 600 metres. The original plan was to add a 60-metre antenna atop the building to surpass the Shanghai Tower and become the tallest building in China. However, in February 2015, it was decided that the antenna would not top the tower due to the possibility that it might obstruct flight paths.


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