Guangzhou International Finance Centre, Guangzhou, China
| Author(s): |
Keith Brownlie
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|---|---|
| Medium: | conference paper |
| Language(s): | English |
| Conference: | 35th Annual Symposium of IABSE / 52nd Annual Symposium of IASS / 6th International Conference on Space Structures: Taller, Longer, Lighter - Meeting growing demand with limited resources, London, United Kingdom, September 2011 |
| Published in: | IABSE-IASS 2011 London Symposium Report |
| Year: | 2011 |
| Abstract: |
The paper discusses the planning and design of the Guangzhou International Finance Centre [GIFC] in Southern China, a ‘supertall’ multi-use building substantially completed in 2010. The 103 storey, three-sided tower comprises 69 levels of office accommodation beneath a 34 level hotel. The building is structured with an externally braced perimeter tube using concrete filled tubes in a diagrid arrangement enclosed within a fully glazed building envelope. At a height of around 200m the central core is fragmented and replaced by an inner tubular frame, allowing a 115m high central void to penetrate the full height of the hotel to the roof. |
| Keywords: |
high-rise buildings atrium Diagrid Guangzhou International Finance Centre [GIFC] externally braced tube concrete filled tube [CFT]
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