Tianjin CTF Finance Centre
This skyscraper combines complex programmatic elements with a smart facade that conveys a delicate interaction of light and structure, resulting in a groundbreaking paradigm of material and structural efficiency.
The 530-meter-high tower is a striking new icon in Tianjin's Economic-Technological Development Area (TEDA). The project contributes to the TEDA goal by anchoring the office, hotel, retail, and housing zone with a supertall tower and retail building on the axis of the government center and local transportation station. The 97-story structure has Class-A offices, 300 luxury serviced apartments and a 350-room Rosewood hotel.
The tower's design incorporates architectural, structural, and functional factors. The square-plan geometry with rounded corners enhances the efficiency of the building's three programmatic uses office, hotel, and apartments by arranging them to meet the optimum spans for each. To maximize views, office floors have longer lease periods, whereas residential and hotel floors have shorter lease periods. The tower's curving facade is the result of structural efficiency techniques. Because of the crystalline glass panels that extend from the foyer to the crown, the building's integrated form has a striking monolithic appearance.
The office space is organized in a clean, continuous configuration from the core to the exterior wall, and access is efficient, with a square central bank of local elevators serving three zones of 36 office levels. Private elevators and shuttle access to a rooftop lobby are available, as well as vast floor plates that allow for a variety of room configurations. Because it has its own sky lobby, the hotel is perfect for small floor plates with corners for panoramic views.
On the ground level, three planted automobile drop-offs enable access to the tower's multiple uses, and exquisite glass-and-steel canopies stretch to provide shade to visitors. A five-story luxury shopping mall with interior links to the office tower and hotel lobbies covers about half of the land.
Location: Tianjin
Height: 1,740 ft (530 m)
Floors: 97
Architects: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM)
Building Function: Hotel, Serviced Apartments, Office
Completion: 2019
