Kohn Pedersen Fox won the developer's design competition in 2009 and was the main architect, with Guangzhou Design Institute and Leigh & Orange as architects of record. New World Development, a subsidiary of Chow Tai Fook Enterprises, developed it. Groundbreaking was on September 29, 2009, it topped out in July 2014 and was completed in October 2016.
The tower is 1,739 feet (530 m) tall with 111 floors above ground and five below. A square core 105 feet (32 m) on a side is supported by eight concrete mega columns linked by outriggers and belt trusses. The glass facade has vertical mullions of white glazed terracotta that project to shade the windows.
It holds offices on floors 7 to 66, 355 serviced apartments and a 251-room hotel on the top 16 floors, which opened in 2019. Two of its 95 Hitachi elevators reached 69 feet (21 m) per second in a 2017 test. The article gives no formal style label.
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