Jin Mao Tower, Shanghai, China: 5th tallest building in the world

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JIN MAO TOWER

421 metres/1,380 feet
88 stories
Completed: 1998
Tallest building in China (1998 - present)
5th tallest building in the world

Some building facts:
- Designed by Adrian D. Smith of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP;
- the tower is partly office and partly hotel:
floors 53-87 are occupied by the Grand Hyatt Shanghai,
making it the building with the highest hotel rooms in the world.
The hotel atrium, which starts at the 53rd floor and which goes up to the 87th floor,
is one of the tallest in the world with a height of 115m/377f and a diameter of 27m/89f;
the tallest atrium is the one of Dubai's Burj Al Arab;
- the Grand Hyatt hotel has 555 rooms;
- on the 88th floor there is a public observatory,
- at a height of just over 340m/1,116f the highest observation deck in China;
- costs to go up are 30RMB (about US$6,-);
- the deck can be reached by elevators which travel up to 9,1 metres per second;
in 45 seconds you will have reached the observation deck;
- like the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia the building's proportions
revolve around the number 8, a number associated with prosperity in Chinese culture;
the most obvious being the 88 floors of the building;
also the official dedication of the building was on the 28th of August of 1998;
- the building can withstand winds and typhoons of up to 200km/h
(with the top swaying by a maximum of 75cm/0.3inches)
and earthquakes of up to 7 on the Richter scale;

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