Raffles City Chongqing stands at 18 Xinyi Street in the Yuzhong District of Chongqing, China. Moshe Safdie designed it for developer CapitaLand, and China Construction Third Engineering Bureau Group built it. Construction began around 2013, the towers topped out in January 2019, and the complex opened on September 6, 2019.
The article describes a high-tech design in reinforced concrete and steel. The tallest tower is 1,163 feet (354.5 meters) high. A 984-foot (300-meter) skybridge called the Crystal links four towers.
The complex combines offices, 1,400 residences, a hotel and a shopping mall. The article gives conflicting floor counts for the tallest tower, 67 above ground in one place and 79 in another.
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