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Shanghai World Financial Center

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The Shanghai World Financial Center is a supertall skyscraper in the Pudong district of Shanghai, designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox and developed by the Mori Building Company, with Leslie E. Robertson Associates as structural engineer and China State Construction Engineering Corporation and Shanghai Construction Group as main contractor. It is a mixed use skyscraper combining offices, hotels, conference rooms and a ground floor shopping mall.

Facts
Building Type
Supertall Skyscraper 1
Location
Pudong, Shanghai, China 1
Completed Year
2008 2
The tower topped out in 2007; it opened to the public in 2008, the year used here.
Height (m)
492 1
492 m is the roof height at topping out; the source notes this makes it the tallest building in the world by roof height only, not by architectural or tip height.
Classification
Standing Status
Standing 1
Building Type
Building Type (category)
Skyscraper 1
Connections

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The Skyscraper, Concepts

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.

In Style

Neo-Futurism, Styles and Movements
Source Wikipedia: Shanghai World Financial Center

Uses Element

Steel, Architectural Materials
Source Wikipedia: Shanghai World Financial Center
In the Other Atlases
  • Also in Geography Atlas: China, located there.
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Shanghai World Financial Center
Wikipedia
  • lead paragraph
    is a supertall skyscraper located in the Pudong district of Shanghai.
  • lead paragraph, opening dates
    The SWFC opened to the public on 28 August 2008, with its (since closed) observation deck opening on 30 August.
  • lead paragraph, topping-out sentence
    On 14 September 2007, the skyscraper was topped out at 492 meters (1,614.2 ft), making it the 2nd tallest building in the world on completion (the tallest at the time being Taipei 101), the tallest building in the world by roof height only, and the tallest in mainland China.
  • Entity description and the lead of the Wikipedia article
    The Shanghai World Financial Center is a supertall skyscraper in the Pudong district of Shanghai, designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox and developed by the Mori Building Company, with Leslie E. Robertson Associates as structural engineer and China State Construction Engineering Corporation and Shanghai Construction Group as main contractor. It is a mixed use skyscraper combining offices, hotels, conference rooms and a ground floor shopping mall.
  • In Style: Neo-Futurism, infobox architectural_style field: Neo-Futurism
  • Uses Element: Steel, Wikipedia article
    === Structural efficiency === The tower's trapezoid aperture is made up of structural steel and reinforced concrete.
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2. Wikidata: Shanghai World Financial Center
  • Wikidata Q80852, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
  • Wikidata Q80852, P571 claim (w-bbfill-artsarchag-0926)
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