FINANCIAL CENTER Nanjing GRINLEND Financial Center Grinlend Nanjing (Nanjing Greenland Financial Center) - a 89-story skyscraper height of 450 meters (1500 feet), located in Nanjing (Nanjing), China . The building was completed in 2009 on the lower floors of the skyscraper, provided space for retail and office space, and on the upper floors will be in restaurants and public observatory. The roof of the building, as usual, set the spire. The tower is the fifth tallest building in world and the second - in China, after Shanghai World Financial Center (Shanghai World Financial Center). observation platform located at 72 th floor, at a distance of 287 meters (940 feet) of land, allows you a panoramic view of city of Nanjing, as well as Yangtze River (Yangtze River), mountain chain Ningzheng Ridge and the two adjacent lakes. Financial Center Nanjing Grinlend designed by architect Adrian Smith (Adrian Smith), and Marshall, Strabane (Marshall Strabala) from the company «Skidmore, Owings & Merrill», which also owns the tower project Burj Dubai (Burj Dubai) in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. triumphed in the competition, work on the project continued to Jill Gordon (Gordon Gill) and Adrian Smith (Adrian Smith). The initial draft of the tower was different, its height should be about three hundred meters. Originally, the structure would be called an international financial center of Nanjing (Nanjing International Financial Center). The building has a triangular shape, good appropriate size and shape of the site on which it is built. From the windows of a skyscraper offers spectacular views of the city of Nanjing, as well as nearby lakes and mountains. The shape of the building recalls the three historical elements of the city of Nanjing - the Yangtze River, landscaped gardens and the iconography of the columns and dragons, prevalent in Chinese culture. I must say that the building of the Financial Center of Nanjing Grinlend used quite versatile. There is a hotel with 500 rooms, offices, area for retail and underground parking. In addition to the observation platform at the top of the building are several restaurants. Across the landscape structure constructed glass atriums, there is also a garden and an outdoor swimming pool on the podium roof. Floors with numbers from 70 to 88 are used as technical and are located in the steeple of the building. The central skeleton of the tower is enclosed in two interrelated forms that look like dancing dragons in ancient Chinese mythology. external walls consist of glass panels installed at an angle of step-ins, resembling dragon scales. Textured glass surface of a building shared by both horizontal and vertical joints, resembling the bend and the river Yangtze. building material for the building served as the steel and concrete. The spire of the building reaches a height of 458 m. At night, the atria and the spire towers are illuminated, the building becomes like a giant lighthouse, and the city of Nanjing to become a completely new and almost fantastic landmark. Financial Center Nanjing Grinlend was another spectacular skyscraper, along with such masterpieces as the World Financial Center in Shanghai (Shanghai World Financial Center), Jin-Mao Tower (Jin Mao Tower) and the International Finance Centre 2 (Two International Finance Centre ). More skyscrapers - Shanghai Tower (Shanghai Tower), Guangzhou TV Tower Tower (Guangzhou TV & Sightseeing Tower), and China 117 Tower - will be completed in the next few years. China continues to modernize and build the highest skyscraper in the world to date. ______________________________________ Translation from English T. Ponomarenko © Copy materials from the site is strictly prohibited! See also: Diamond in the Arab world is one of the most popular buildings in the Hollywood films High-altitude "bottle opener" Asian skyscrapers, "twins" Silver champion in Hong Kong the height of buildings in Hong Kong's tallest building architectural asymmetric response "Chamberlain" small town fit inside the building skyscraper Despite a strike in Dubai has grown super-G Skyscraper, promoting foreign investment
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