The Chinese government remains silent on the reason why the construction has been resumed on a 117-story skyscraper in Tianjin’s city almost a decade after it was abandoned, China’s media report, with the aim of completing it in 2027.The $ 78 million construction permit has caused surprises because the China real estate sector struggles to find purchases in the economic rarity. The building, originally called the Goldin Finance 117, has remained in the world’s highest building since 2015, when the financial fall of a Chinese stock accident forced Hong Kong’s hong kong real estate developer to settle.
The exterior structure of the building 597 m high in 2008 has been built while the interior walls and other structures remained incomplete at the time it was deserted. The construction was restarted in 2011 and the building was at the end of 2018 or 2019.
The building consists of a reinforced nucleus of concrete and perimeter steel frame that includes megacolumnes and megabraques, the tower is based on “ mega columns ” to strengthen it against earthquakes and high winds, while its general aesthetics aims to make comparisons with a walk. Once completed, the Supertall skyscraper will include apartments, a luxury hotel and companies, all at a diamond -shaped atrium with an observation cover and a pool.
The Government’s permission has been performed on behalf of a state company, BGI engineering consultants, instead of the original owner, Goldin Properties Holdings. There is no signs that the architect of the building, the P&T group, based on Hong Kong, would change.
At the end, the building occurs third in China and possibly the eighth in the world if the Jeddah Tower of Saudi Arabia and the Burj Azizi of Dubai end as planned. The tower of Shanghai (632 m) and the Ping An Finance Center (555 m) of Shenzhen (555 m) occupy the first and second among the highest Chinese buildings.
This can be the last building above 500 meters in height in China because the National Development Reform Commission and the Ministry of Housing ruled in 2020 that no building would be allowed above this height. The country has 91 buildings over 200 meters high.
No new project financing details were announced, although some experts believe that the government has invested and offered debt restructuring to help revitalize the building. The Government also said that the construction will be resumed in a 468-meter-high building from the Greenland group in the southwest city of Chengdu, which was awaiting 2023.
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The Tianjin project may not retain its original name, Goldin Finance 117, and it is unclear if there would be changes in its use plan. The skyscraper was planned as a place for the Superrich with a luxury hotel, apartments and offices. It has a diamond -shaped atrium level with an observation cover and a pool, but local reports suggest that it will be a mixed building.
The building “Megacolumns will mainly carry the burdens of gravity and, together with the Megabrace system, its side loads”, said a research report “Health control system developed for Tianjin 117 High Rise Building”, which was published in the March 2017 issue of Aerospace Engineering Magazine. “This plan allowed designers to minimize the size of perimeter sub -columns and maximize the usable space around the nucleus walls in the center of the tower.” The skyscraper faces the risks of high -speed winds and possible earthquakes, as Tianjin is in a zone of high seismic intensity, according to the report.
“There is the challenge of designing the SLIM tower in the high seismic area of northern China,” said a 2012 study published by Six Arup Engineers at the International Journal of High Rise Buildings.
