CITIC Plaza stands in the Tianhe district of Guangzhou, China, completed in 1997 to a design by the firm Dennis Lau and Ng Chun Man Architects and Engineers. At the time of its completion its twin office towers, rising to 391 meters, were the tallest reinforced concrete buildings in the world, a distinction achieved using high-strength concrete rather than the structural steel more commonly used for buildings of comparable height. Its stepped, symmetrical profile and dual-tower composition were designed to echo traditional Chinese pagoda forms scaled up to modern skyscraper proportions. The complex also includes twin 38-story residential towers flanking the main office towers, along with a shopping podium at its base, making it a large mixed-use development built during Guangzhou's rapid growth as a commercial center in the 1990s.
Facts
Building Type LocationTianhe District, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China 1 Completed Year Classification
Standing Status Building Type
Building Type (category) Connections
Has Building Type
Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.
Uses Element
Source Wikipedia: CITIC Plaza
In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: China, located there.
Sources
1. Wikipedia: CITIC Plaza
Infobox, building_type
Commercial offices
Introduction, sentence 1
Tianhe District of Guangzhou, Guangdong
Infobox, completion_date
1997 06
Infobox, architectural
390.2 m
Entity description and the lead/infobox of the Wikipedia article
CITIC Plaza stands in the Tianhe district of Guangzhou, China, completed in 1997 to a design by the firm Dennis Lau and Ng Chun Man Architects and Engineers. At the time of its completion its twin office towers, rising to 391 meters, were the tallest reinforced concrete buildings in the world, a distinction achieved using high-strength concrete rather than the structural steel more commonly used for buildings of comparable height. Its stepped, symmetrical profile and dual-tower composition were designed to echo traditional Chinese pagoda forms scaled up to modern skyscraper proportions. The complex also includes twin 38-story residential towers flanking the main office towers, along with a shopping podium at its base, making it a large mixed-use development built during Guangzhou's rapid growth as a commercial center in the 1990s.
Uses Element: Concrete, Wikipedia lead
Completed in June 1997, it was the tallest concrete building in the world until the completion of the Trump Tower Chicago, and the tallest in China.
View the Source2. Wikidata: CITIC Plaza
- Wikidata Q245246, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
- Wikidata Q245246, P571 claim (w-bbfill-artsarchag-0926)
View the SourceFrequently Asked Questions
Is CITIC Plaza still the tallest concrete building in the world?
No, it held the title only until the Trump Tower Chicago was completed.
CITIC Plaza's twin office towers rose to 391 meters when the complex was completed in Guangzhou in 1997, using high-strength reinforced concrete rather than structural steel for a building of that height. The record did not hold indefinitely. According to Wikipedia, it was the tallest concrete building in the world until the completion of the Trump Tower Chicago, which later surpassed it using the same reinforced concrete construction method.
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