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Facts
Official Name Ping An Finance Center
Former / Other Names Ping An International Finance Center Tower 1
PAFC
Type building
Status Under Construction
Country China
City Shenzhen
Street Address / Map Lot No. 1, Futian District
Building Function office
Structural Material composite
Proposed 2008
Start of Construction 2010
Completion 2016
Figures
Height: Architectural 660.0 meter / 2165 feet
Height: Occupied 555.1 meter / 1821 feet
Height: To Tip 660.0 meter / 2165 feet
Height: Observatory 550.0 meter / 1804 feet
Floors Above Ground 115
Floors Below Ground 5
# of Elevators 76
Top Elevator Speed 10 m/s
Development GFA 385,918 m² / 4,153,987 ft²
# of Parking Spaces 1174
Companies Involved
Owner Ping An Life Insurance Company of China
Developer Ping An Life Insurance Company of China
Design Architect Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates
Associate Architect China Construction Design International
Structural Engineer Thornton Tomasetti
MEP Engineer J. Roger Preston Group
Main Contractor China Construction First Building Group Corp., Ltd.
Other Consultants ALT Cladding;
RWDI
Videos
Ping An Finance Center: Pioneering China’s Tallest – Efficiencies of Form and Structures
CTBUH Shanghai Congress
Symbiosis: Supertalls and Future Cities
J. Klemperer (Principal & Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates), CTBUH Mumbai Conference

Technical Papers
Ping An Finance Center: Pioneering China’s Tallest
David Malott & Zhizhe Yu (Kohn Pedersen Fox), Dennis Poon & Torsten Gottlebe (Thornton Tomasetti), CTBUH Shanghai Congress

Other CTBUH Links
Tallest 20 in 2020: Entering the Era of the Megatall
CTBUH Report, 2011
Tallest 20 in 2020: Entering the Era of the Megatall
CTBUH Poster, 2011

News Articles
Shenzhen Construction Halted After Cheap Sand Warning
CTBUH Global News, 2013-03
KPF Pen Chinas Future Tallest Skyscraper
SkyscraperNews.com, 2010-05
Shenzen Supertall Aims to Trump Shanghai Center
SkyscraperNews.com, 2009-01