Tianjin World Financial Center, also called Tianjin Tower, is a mixed-use supertall skyscraper in the Heping District of Tianjin, China, on the Hai River. Skidmore, Owings & Merrill designed it for the developer Financial Street Holding. It rises 1,105 feet (336.9 m) with 74 floors above ground and 4 below.
Construction began on December 17, 2007, the tower topped out on January 14, 2010, and it opened on March 6, 2011. The cost was 3.5 billion yuan.
Its glass unitized curtain wall covers about 215,000 square meters (2.3 million square feet) and was made by Jangho Group. It was the first office building in Tianjin with double-deck elevators. The top floor and observatory are at about 1,029 feet (313.6 m), according to the infobox, though the article text gives 305.2 m for the observation deck.
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