Early 1999, another landmark building in Shanghai proudly stood on the banks of the Huangpu River, and the long-awaited 88-story Jinmao Tower, the third in the world, the second in Asia, and the first in mainland China, was finally introduced to the market, which integrates a modern office building, a luxurious five-star hotel, a commercial convention and exhibition center, a high-grade banquet center, a sightseeing center, entertainment centers, and other comprehensive facilities. This intelligent skyscraper integrating modern office building, luxury five-star hotel, commercial exhibition, high-grade banquet, sightseeing, entertainment, shopping mall, etc., rich in Chinese cultural connotation and western architectural art, has become the most convenient, comfortable, flexible and safe office, finance, commerce, entertainment and catering ideal place in Shanghai today.
The designer of Jinmao Tower is the famous SOM Design Office in Chicago, USA. With innovative design ideas, the designers skillfully combined the world's latest architectural trends with traditional Chinese architectural styles, and succeeded in designing a world-class, cross-century classic, which has become a milestone of Haikai architecture, and has become a famous landmark building in Shanghai, and has been honored with the Illinois World Architecture and Structure Prize, the first place of the Gold Medal of the Top Ten Classical Buildings in Shanghai for the 50th Anniversary of New China, and the Achievement Award of Artistic Creation of the 20th International Architects' Congress. Architects Conference Artistic Creation Achievement Award and many other domestic and international awards.
The building was approved as a project on December 17, 1992, started construction on May 10, 1994, topped out on August 28, 1997, opened for business on March 18, 1999, and was fully operational on August 28 of that year. Jinmao Tower covers an area of 2.3 hectares, with a tower height of 420.5 meters and a total construction area of 290,000 square meters.
The main building of the building has 88 floors above ground and 3 floors below ground, with a height of 420.5 meters, covering an area of 23,611 square meters and a total construction area of 290,000 square meters. Jinmao Tower is an intelligent high-grade building integrating office, business, hotel and other multi-functions. The 3rd-50th floors are spacious and bright column-free spaces that can accommodate more than 10,000 people in office at the same time; the 51st-52nd floors are the layers of electromechanical equipments; and the 53rd-87th floors are the world's highest super five-star Hyatt Regency Jinmao Hotel, of which the 56th floor to the top floor of the tower is the core of a 27-meter-diameter, sunlight refracted through the glass clear space, and a large space of the tower. Refracted through the glass into the headroom of up to 142 meters of the "sky atrium" around the atrium is the size of the different styles of the 555 guest rooms and a variety of Chinese and Western restaurants, etc.; 86th floor for the Entrepreneurs' Club; 87th floor for the sky restaurant; from the ground to the 341-meter 88th floor of the highest domestic sightseeing floor, which can accommodate More than 1,000 tourists can be accommodated on the 88th floor, which is the highest sightseeing floor in China to date. The two high-speed elevators with a speed of 9.1 meters per second will take 45 seconds to send sightseeing guests from the 1st basement floor directly to the sightseeing floor, where they can take a look around and enjoy a panoramic view of Shanghai's new appearance.
The building adopts the latest structural technology used for the first time in the history of ultra-high-rise buildings, with the vertical deviation of the whole building being only 2 centimeters, and the swaying of the top of the building being less than half a meter, which is the best among the world's high-rise buildings, and it also ensures that it will not fall down in a 12-grade wind, and at the same time it can withstand an earthquake of magnitude 7. The outer wall of the building consists of a large glass wall, reflecting colors that look like silver but are not silver, in different shades and with endless changes. The glass wall is imported from the U.S.A. The glass is divided into two layers with a low-temperature conductor in the center so that the temperature outside will not affect the inside. Jinmao Tower*** has 79 elevators, and the sightseeing high-speed elevator can take 35 people at a time, with a speed of 9.1 meters per second, and it takes only 45 seconds to go from down to up.
The lobby of Jinmao Tower adopts round-arched door frames, giving people a tall, spacious and bright feeling; the walls are made of Mediterranean perforated marble, which can play a good role in soundproofing; the marble on the ground is light but not bright, flat but not slippery. The eight bronze sculpture murals in the antechamber focus on the traditional Chinese calligraphy art, which reflects the 5,000 years of Chinese civilization history through the evolution of Chinese characters, from oracle bone script, bell and ding script, all the way to seal script, official script, regular script and cursive script. The corridor leading to the banquet hall is more of an art gallery, reflecting an elegant taste and luxury.