Shun Hing Square

22°32′43″N 114°06′21″E / 22.54528°N 114.10583°E / 22.54528; 114.10583Construction startedApril 21, 1993CompletedMarch 9, 1996OpeningJune 27, 1996OwnerKumagai Gumi Company^[1]HeightArchitectural384 m (1,260 ft)^[1]Roof325 m (1,066 ft)Top floor298 m (978 ft)^[1]Observatory298 m (978 ft)^[1]Technical detailsFloor count69^[1] (+3 basement floors)Floor area280,000 m² (3,000,000 sq ft)^[1]Lifts/elevators36^[1]Design and constructionArchitect(s)K.Y. Cheung Design Associates^[1]DeveloperShun Hing GroupStructural engineerMaunsell AECOM Group^[1]References^[1][2]

Shun Hing Square
Simplified Chinese	信兴广场
Traditional Chinese	信興廣場
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Xìnxìng Guǎngchǎng Yue: Cantonese Jyutping seon3 hing1 gwong2 coeng4

Shun Hing Square (Chinese: 信兴广场), also known as "Di Wang Tower"^[3] (地王大厦) is a 384-meter (1,260 ft)-tall skyscraper in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, China. Upon its completion in 1996, it became the tallest building in China, until being surpassed by CITIC Plaza in the next year.

Background

The building was built at a pace of four floors in nine days. The main tower contains office space, a car park and a 5-story shopping arcade complex with four sets of escalators, five passenger lifts and two service lifts, and a floor area ranging from 3450 m² to 4900 m². On the top floor (69th floor) is the "Meridian View Center," an observation deck.^[4][5] Its common nickname, "Diwang Building" derives from the auction price for the piece of land it stands being the most expensive in Shenzhen at the time. 24,500 tonnes of steel were used in construction.

Records held

As of April 2023, the building is

• The fifth tallest in Shenzhen
• 25th tallest building in mainland China
• 49th tallest in the world
• The tallest building in the world with fewer than 70 floors
• The tallest all-steel building in China.
• The tallest building in China from 1996 to the completion of CITIC Plaza in Guangzhou in 1997.^[6]
• The first skyscraper in China to be one of the ten tallest in the world (Bank of China Tower and Central Plaza, of Hong Kong, were constructed and topped out while Hong Kong was still under British sovereignty).^[4]
• The first in China to reach 1,150 ft (350 m).
• Tallest building constructed in Shenzhen in the 1990s.
• Tallest building in Shenzhen from 1996 to September 2011 until surpassed by the nearby 441.8-metre-tall (1,449 ft) Kingkey 100.

Image gallery

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  Shun Hing Square with the annex shown in front
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  Shun Hing Square as shown from the Ping An Finance Center
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  Seeing from the top of Shun Hing Square

See also

GeographyAreasSchoolsLandmarksBorder crossingsChina Railway stationsShenzhen Metro
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