Tomorrow Square (simplified Chinese: 明天广场; traditional Chinese: 明天廣場; pinyin: Míngtiān Guǎngchǎng) is the eighth-tallest building in Shanghai, China. It is located in Huangpu District, Puxi, close to People's Square. It is about 285 m (934 ft) tall and has 63 floors.
| Tomorrow Square | |
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明天广场 | |
 Tomorrow Square in September 2016 | |
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| General information | |
| Status | Completed |
| Type | Office, hotel, restaurant, apartments |
| Location | Huangpu District, Shanghai, China |
| Coordinates | 31°13′55″N 121°27′54″E / 31.232°N 121.465°E |
| Construction started | 1997 |
| Estimated completion | 1 October 2003 |
| Height | |
| Antenna spire | 285 m (935 ft) |
| Roof | 238 m (781 ft) |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 63 |
| Floor area | 130,063 m2 (1,399,990 sq ft) |
| Lifts/elevators | 15 |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect(s) | John Portman & Associates |
| Website | |
| JW Marriott Shanghai | |
This multi-purpose building contains a 342-room JW Marriott hotel, and 255 executive apartment units. It was completed on 1 October 2003. Starting from a square base, the all-concrete Tomorrow Square tower transforms itself into a diagonal square as it rises to a peak. Engineers of the exterior vertical support system were faced with a unique challenge as a result of this unusual shape. They chose flat slabs for the hotel floors and beam and slab construction for the office floors. A combination of shear walls and frame action stabilizes the slender tower laterally against wind and earthquake forces. The foundations are 80-meter (260 ft)-long bored piles supporting a column mat.
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External links edit
- JW Marriott Hotel Shanghai
- Marriott Executive Apartments
- "Tomorrow Square". CTBUH Skyscraper Center.
- "Emporis building ID 131104". Emporis. Archived from the original on November 16, 2021.
- "Tomorrow Square". SkyscraperPage.