Gensler’s Twisting Shanghai Tower Is Named World’s Best New Skyscraper

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http://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/gentlers-shanghai-tower-named-worlds-best-new-skyscraper


The 2,073-foot-tall structure has been awarded with the inaugural 2016 American Architecture Prize (AAP) for Architectural Design of the Year

Soaring 2,073 feet in the air, the Gensler-designed Shanghai Tower, the second-tallest building in the world, now lays claim to top honors of another sort: the inaugural 2016 American Architecture Prize (AAP) for Architectural Design of the Year. Completed in January, the 121-story mixed-use building is boldly modern yet strongly connected to its area’s cultural identity, making “an immediate and profound impact on the country’s perceptions of how a skyscraper can contribute to a city, a country, and a culture,” according to the AAP. Nine distinct zones create a vertical city rising through the cylindrical structure, which boasts a second exterior façade that spirals 120 degrees and encases a series of public garden spaces. The transparent double skins provide a visual link between the building’s surroundings and its interior while maximizing natural light.

The skyscraper was awarded the prize during a recent ceremony at New York’s Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum. Created to honor designs in architecture, interior design, and landscape architecture, the AAP hopes to advance appreciation of architecture worldwide. Of the Shanghai Tower, the organization says, “Powerful in form yet delicate in appearance, [the building] would be a graceful addition to any skyline, but its function, identify, and symbolism are firmly rooted in the needs of its specific site.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gensler

Andy Cohen and Diane Hoskins: co-CEO's of Gensler

 

[Star Expedition]

We need 10000 such towers in all over country.

 

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http://newatlas.com/emporis-skyscraper-award-shanghai-tower/46221/

Twisting Shanghai Tower declared world's best new skyscraper

Shanghai Tower, the world's second-tallest building, has been declared the world's best skyscraper by information specialist Emporis in its annual skyscraper awards. The mixed use megatall skyscraper reaches a total height of 632 m (2,073 ft) and twists a full 120 degrees to mitigate the effect of the punishing winds at such heights.

Lauded by Emporis for its elegant design and energy-efficiency, the US$2.4 billion Shanghai Tower is a very impressive building.

The foundations alone required an entire fleet of trucks pouring concrete for 63 hours straight. A total of 106 Mitsubishi-designed elevators travel at speeds of up to 20 m (65 ft) per second in order to allow move people around the mammoth structure in a reasonable time.

A double-layered glass skin improves the building's insulation and wind turbines power all the external lighting. Rainwater is also collected and used for air-conditioning and heating systems.

Making use of Building Information Modeling (BIM) software from Autodesk, the design team was able to analyze wind resistance and seismic loads of progressive iterations of the building's design and eventually achieve what Gensler estimates is a design that used 32 percent less materials than a conventional tower of the same size.

 

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Twisting Shanghai Tower declared world's best new skyscraper
the world's second-tallest building, has been declared the world's best skyscraper by information specialist Emporis in its annual skyscraper awards. The mixed use megatall skyscraper reaches a total height of 632 m (2,073 ft) and twists a full 120 degrees to mitigate the effect of the punishing winds at such heights.

Lauded by Emporis for its elegant design and energy-efficiency, the US$2.4 billion Shanghai Tower is a very impressive building.

The foundations alone required an entire fleet of trucks pouring concrete for 63 hours straight. A total of 106 Mitsubishi-designed elevators travel at speeds of up to 20 m (65 ft) per second in order to allow move people around the mammoth structure in a reasonable time.

That's fine.
As long as the japan companies like to do business with us, they are welcome, including Mitsubishi.

We don't think Japanese people like war, when there are so many ways to solve problems between us.

 

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